World Food Crisis 'Here To Stay'

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 5-19-2008 | David Blair

[blam]

I read in another recent article that China has turned to Africa to begin growing and importing food grown by them in Africa.

[Flavius]

just weeks ago they had obesity crisis

seems everything is ok now

cured obesity/diabetes quick l like

[sinanju]

Maybe they’ll simply end up buying Zimbabwe from Mugabe, now that he’s chased every competent farmer off the land.

That’s it. They’ll prop up the old butcher and run the place as their colonial plantation.

[the invisib1e hand]

we're gonna starve, over heat, run out of energy... and what else? Oh, we're all miserable racists.

You know, I think I'm beginning to see a pattern...

[rabscuttle385]

With the global population forecast to reach nine billion by 2050 compared with six billion today, Sir John said, the world needed a "green revolution", especially in Africa.

Isn't green the color of Islam?

[digger48]

That’s it. They’ll prop up the old butcher and run the place as their colonial plantation.

and the American Left will nod in agreement

[A_Former_Democrat]

What do you expect from a guy named John Holmes.

[Rembrandt]

IIRC, the world had a reasonable amount of food until the leftists in the U.S. came up with their brilliant idea of making E-85 ethanol leveraging corn. Now, there’s not enough food available to the world and nearly all foodstuffs in the U.S. and worldwide are significantly more expensive.

I’m sure Jammah Cahtah is proud. Now perhaps Obama can serve Jammah’s second term and revisit the misery that Jammah brought to our country in the 70’s.

[doc1019]

LOL! All this and Obama too! Gee, reason 235 to be glad I’m old and will not be around to see the culmination of all this (hopefully). All the youngsters of the world … enjoy your legacy.

[lawnguy]

Modern agriculture can feed the world if the left and their thug dictator buddies will allow them.

[Swiss]

When the US Dollar returns to the value it had oh say three or four years ago then I want to see what the price of food is.

There isn’t a damn problem with food production. Other than some localized weather related crop failures such as the Southeast Asia rice crop or some related animal problem such as a disease hitting Chinese swine there is nothing abnormal about the supply of food in the World.

[LegendHasIt]

"High food prices are here to stay and the world needs a "green revolution" to feed its rising population,...."

The "green revolution" one of the major things responsible for the problems with food costs. As usual, these 'watermelons' confuse cause, effect and solution with each other; whether it be through ignorance or lying to advance their agenda.

[television is just wrong]

victory gardens

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Has anyone seen these:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/05/01/this-company-may-be-the-biggest-threat-to-your-future-health.aspx?source=nl

http://www.mercola.com/future-of-food/index.htm

Scary stuff if true... any thoughts?

[Humble Servant]

Anybody got any info on the impact of “Organic” agriculture on food prices and supply? Seems to me that yield per acre is significantly lower, my guess would be by 20-30%.. That has to mean more total acres needed to produce the same amount of total food. My wife has fallen prey to the mystical foolishness of what I see as a big-time scam.

[yldstrk]

Excuse me if I say “balderdash” to anyone who predicts the future.......

[blam]

"Scary stuff if true... any thoughts?"

I agree. I don't know what to do.

[goodnesswins]

“green revolution” means....YOUR greenbacks into THEIR hands.....to “feed the hungry”

[JasonC]

CO2 fertilizes plants. Ethanol shifts food production to fuel. So the green left wants to eliminate all CO2 emissions. But it is fine with diverting food production, even though it emits more. What do the positions they support all have in common?

Hatred of the human race...

[blam]

Victory Gardens