World food Shortage! Big Box Stores restrict Rice sales,will you be Hungry?
By barehugs
@barehugs (8973)
Canada
April 24, 2008 3:24pm CST
Seems like Big Oil has us by the short Hair! The high cost of Energy is forcing up the price of food. Farmers are already Planting their Spring crops, most of which will be sold for Ethanol to be used as a gasoline additive. Will there be enough corn and wheat left to feed us all? Thousands of Farmers have migrated to the cities over the past 4 decades. Food was cheap and plentiful and it was easier to make a living working in a Factory. This food shortage is no surprise! It had to happen sooner or later. Now that its here, what can we do to help the situation?
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@oscarbartoni (2581)
• United States
24 Apr 08
I am planting a larger organic garden than I had last year. I look at the grocery stores to see what vegetable s they might have marked down, slightly bruised or damaged vegetables are still good, just cut away the bad part if you have to. I believe that there are rich people that are buying the grains before they are harvested and causing the prices to go through the roof. I think that it is a sin the big oil companies are getting so much a profit and causing so much hardship to those that can least afford it. I am not saying that the government should start selling the oil that is saved "for a rainy day" but rather that they should stop buying it at these greatly inflated prices, wait until the price comes down to under $75.00 a gallon. before they start to buy it and put it into storage,
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@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
25 Apr 08
Oil is sold on the world market. Supply and demand sets the price, and the Asian market is hungry for oil. China and Vietnam are churning out cars like never before, and Chinese are earning big money selling defective products and poison Pet Food to North American Markets.Put it all together and we will be paying $4.00/ US gal. for gas. If we wait for the price to come down chances are, Hell would freeze over before that happened.
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@julyteen (13252)
• Davao, Philippines
27 Apr 08
yes we experience food shortage in our country specially rice, we don't know yet what is the reason behind. we are one of the top producer of rice why we are short on supply. there is a hording of rice supply in our country. it is monopolize by bigger businessman. all we have to do now is minimize expenses and maximize income.
@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
27 Apr 08
Millions or people in China and India have better paying jobs, and they are eating better food. They want wheat and rice and this development coupled with the North American need for ethenol (made from Wheat and corn)to fuel their cars, has led to a world shortage of food. Over 90 percent of the world's hungry are prisoners of poverty. They are too poor to buy enough food. They spend all their time and energy trying to survive, and this recent food shortage will cause a desparate situation to become much worse!
@ellie26 (4139)
• Malaysia
25 Apr 08
With this awareness, I was planning to go back to basic. I have a paddy field that has not been planted for years. Looking at the shortage of rice and the high price for rice, I think I will soon start planting myself. As for cooking oil, I was thinking about using coconut oil as my cooking oil. We have abundant of coconut trees with coconuts that are ready to be plucked. I thought of making cooking oil from it. That what my great-grandmother used for cooking. This is not much of a help, but at least there is food on the table.
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@barehugs (8973)
• Canada
27 Apr 08
The sad thing is, millions of people in developing countries will be starving unless the rest of the world jumps in to feed them. This is unlikely to happen when the food shortage is world wide. Now is the time to fill your pantries and shelves with canned and boxed food. The price of food has only one way to go and thats up!