Global food supply is a growing problem

Telegraph (UK) ^ | June 8, 2008 | James Hall

[Joan Kerrey]

Seems like Capitalist Free Enterprise Nations are the only ones that grow their own and can export.
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Bush/Cheney conspiracy, huh? Don’t worry, Obama and company will punish those making windfall profits at the expense of the rest of us. It’s shameful that anyone profits from food. I think we’ll see a distribution of land after we rid the country of fat agri-capitalists and give the land to the people. Obama is the answer. /s

[elkfersupper]

If poliricians and enviro-whackos would stop insisting we put food in our gas tanks, this would be a non-issue.

[monkeycard]

...the Food Retail Industry Challenge Fund has been set up to encourage UK retailers to buy goods from Africa,...

LOL!!!

[BenLurkin]

BUMP!

[Paladin2]

We need to have a graft, corruption, speech and book advance windfall tax on all Congress Critters.

[ex-Texan]

DUH . . . !

Just wait until diesel hits $ 6.

Farmers cannot afford to plant, harvest or transport crops with fuel prices that high. Already, farmers are complaining that crooks are stealing their fuel. Just think about that for a minute: 900 gallons stolen in the dead of night . . . That is a chunk of change. R U getting the picture yet?

Time to wake up, folks!

Oil speculators: Including Russia, Iran, Syria, Dubai, Saudis, OPEC, Chavez, Castro, European central banks, the IMF, World Bank have all declared economic war on the U.S. KGB bastard Putin knew what he was doing when he ordered Saddam's WMD smuggled to Syria. He was setting up GWB to take the fall for total failure in Iraq.

Have you seen that PBS report on 'Bush's War' yet____________? The media want to portray Bush as the worst president in history. He better wake up fast. Condi Rice better wake up fast. It may already be too late.

Putin is a KGB thug all the way . . .

[eggman]

I've been canning for years. We put in about 90 tomato plants of several varieties, lots of hot and sweet peppers, onions, garlic, beets, carrots, parsnips, cabbage, and broccoli this year. Usually can enough whole tomatoes, soups and sauces, and other veggies to last at least a year or 2.

And we have our own chickens too. They get to eat all of the leftovers from the garden along with the weeds and whatever they don't eat gets composted with the chicken manure.

[eggman]

My dad had 3 of them for his commercial greenhouses. They were quite a bit bigger than that one and were on concrete pads outside of the greenhouses with ducts to pump the CO2 into the greenhouses and distribute it. They burned natural gas and were only used in the winter when the vents were closed.

[MarkL]

Food shortages could be coming to a big city near you, but it has nothing to do with the amount of food available. The problem is a combination of the price of diesel fuel, the possibility of a lot of truckers going out of business, and the "just in time" replenishment methods our grocery stores use. A grocery store has about a 3 day supply of food, if there are no "runs" on the products. After about 3 days, they start to run short of items. So, what happens if grocery stores can only get a single truckload of products a week?

Mark

[DeaconBenjamin]

So, what happens if grocery stores can only get a single truckload of products a week?

Around here, the answer would be: "Let them eat steak!"

[Joya]

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/1081/Chicken-a-la-Carte