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U.S. Food Rationing? Urgent Global Shortage Hits Home
(Robert Roy Britt, LiveScience.com, April 21, 2008)
The global food shortage is already at crisis stage in many countries. Now it seems poised to hit home. And we’re not just talking about price hikes. Just as U.S. residents accept the inevitability of one dreaded R-word, recession, another one may loom: rationing. . . . First, the global outlook: After months of sounding alarms, today U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said "the world has consumed more than it has produced" over the last three years and "the problem is big." Ban said today the world must urgently increase food production. . . . The New York Sun reports today: Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks. . . . Meantime, genetically altered crops suddenly don’t face the opposition they did. [COMMENT by Lorenzo: So, is the current food "crisis" something that has been manufactured by the genetically altered proponents?] . . . Worth noting again that potatoes are making a comeback amid all this turmoil. There are many causes to this suddenly acute problem, but the root of it all is the burgeoning population. For more background on all this, see my entry last month: The Axis of Evil Shortages: Food, Water, Fuel.

posted by Lorenzo 3:25 PM