World food crisis looms closer.

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:21 PM EDT

Article Source: the Mail online

world-news, food, poverty, aid, hunger, biofuels, wheat, crops, grain

In our television age, the mention of a food crisis brings to mind the bloated bellies of starving children.

We think of droughts, crop failure, conflicts and the tub-thumping of Bono and Bob Geldof.

But now we have a very different sort of food crisis, one that last week for the first time brought food rationing to America when the supermarket giant Wal-Mart – owner of Asda – restricted customers to four bags of rice per visit.

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Sandie Seward

According to this article, we'll all have to tighten our belts.

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#1 - Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:22 PM EDT

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backroads

The food producers possess a power that will surpass the stranglehold OPEC has over the rest.

Interesting to me are the new green cleaning products made with soybeans. I'd say we're diverting food to cleansers. Someone's bound to jump all over that.

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#2 - Sat Apr 26, 2008 10:57 PM EDT

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Sandie Seward

"Food" crops should be grown for "food", not fuel or cleaning products. Remember, Backroads,

He who ", owns the "Worlds Food", owns the "Whole World."

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#2.1 - Sun Apr 27, 2008 3:13 AM EDT

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backroads

That's why I favor smart growth planning and conservationism.

The oil sheiks may find themselves more than willing to reduce the price of their precious oil as millions clamor from hunger. Either that, or they'll develop a taste for crude.

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#3 - Sun Apr 27, 2008 11:31 AM EDT

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World food crisis looms closer.

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