hmmm, no one has a opinion on this?

No one has noticed a marked increase in food prices?

I've definitely noticed a price hike when it comes to certain items at the grocery store. That and gas of course. I swear that at least half my paycheck now goes to groceries and gas, if not more. We even got some raman noodles! (takes me back to University)...

Tela

Its been discussed several times in the last few days. That's probably the reason for the lack of replies.

I think that its definitely a crisis in the making for the third world, who will be increasingly unable to maintain food supplies either due to rising prices or dwindling surpluses (or both). There are plenty of causes: skyrocketing populations and increasing consumption, high transportation costs (oil), biofuels such as ethanol, etc.

I would NOT want to be in a food importing nation right now. In fact, in the last few years, I've come to realize that I'm glad I'm not younger than I am, even though at 30, I'm not old. I'm afraid that the second half of this century is going to be a really nasty place for everyone. I'm glad I won't see much, if any of it. The first half is shaping up to be bad enough.

I think most first worlders dont seem to really care yet. It cost more for groceries but they can still get food. I think people will start to notice when famine begins kill off millions of people across the third world. Sadly it will be too late for many millions of people.

For up to the hour updates on the growing crisis, Reuter's humanitarian website alertnet.org is the best source for information.

[edit on 2/4/08 by MikeboydUS]

Howdy everyone....

I live in New Zealand and food prices here have gone up dramatically... we used to pay around $2 for a pound of butter, now its over $4, dairy products have sky rockted to pay for exporting to other countries... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....

all because of the high cost of oil.........
Everyone is feeling the pinch. Especially due to the high cost of petrol.
I just wished there was a cheaper alternative source than oil...

Sadly I think with the way things are going in this world regarding high food and petrol prices it is going to turn very nasty for alot of people...
eg. famine/food shortages.

We are also having alot of droughts here. Maybe the cause of this is due to global warming?

This world is going down a slippery slope and it is getting ugly very fast.

I hope that governments and countries and people... wake up fast enough to do something before its too late... but I know in reality this never happens. And it is always too late.

Originally posted by misswanderer31
I hope that governments and countries and people... wake up fast enough to do something before its too late... but I know in reality this never happens. And it is always too late.

I don't think that there is any intention to do anything about it. Geopolitically I think a major famine in China for example would solve a number of problems and could lead a civil war that will bring the country into line with the west. Any depopulation will be a bonus. Both the wheat and rice shortages have been reported for some months now, there has been no drive to raise awareness. The major news coverage will not come until people are actually starving to death and people are fighting for basic staples. The truth is that nothing can now be done to prevent it, it is going to have a knock on effect and that will keep us all too worried about ourselves to care that people are starving to death in China and inevitably Africa. For the powers that be, the NWO and the Elites this is a win, win situation.

If you take the UK for example, we are fairly reliant on imported food stuffs. Our population is currently around 60 million, at a maximum we can feed 40 million of those people using home grown produce. Even that would require some rationing. To keep the surplus 20 million from starvation the powers that be, are going to ensure that imports continue, they would rather China starved than the British or any other 'white' northern european nation. China could presumably be contained and isolated, let nature do its work and possibly step in to save the day at the opportune moment.

I've been thinking about this a great deal of late and whether there is any engineering involved in the shortages. I don't think there has to be, just a failure to plan a response to shortages - the no-planning system as developed by Heinrich Himmler.