8 thoughts on “Choices”

  1. What’s the answer.?
    Each time the world starts making cross-roads into feeding those in need – greed seems to creep in. Corn as a fuel for machines – its priority must be to fuel the human body with alternative fuel as a secondary thought.

  2. This article from The Guardian (UK) says that food prices will double by 2030.
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/31/oxfam-food-prices-double-2030

    The average price of staple foods will more than double in the next 20 years, leading to an unprecedented reversal in human development, Oxfam has warned.

    The world’s poorest people, who spend up to 80% of their income of food, will be hit hardest according to the charity. It said the world is entering an era of permanent food crisis, which is likely to be accompanied by political unrest and will require radical reform of the international food system.

    Research to be published on Wednesday forecasts international prices of staples such as maize could rise by as much as 180% by 2030, with half of that rise due to the impacts of climate change.

    After decades of steady decline in the number of hungry people around the world, the numbers are rapidly increasing as demand outpaces food production. The average growth rate in agricultural yields has almost halved since 1990 and is set to decline to a fraction of 1% in the next decade.

    A devastating combination of factors – climate change, depleting natural resources, a global scramble for land and water, the rush to turn food into biofuels, a growing global population, and changing diets – have created the conditions for an increase in deep poverty.

    Read on…

    • Food is SO expensive already. It feels like I’m paying twice what I did a couple years ago, and I don’t buy fancy stuff.

  3. I buy some animal feed. I’ve had to raise the price of eggs to cover the increased cost.

    As with our manufactured goods, the corporation don’t really even care if we can afford the increased cost of food, they can ship it to developing nations whose new-found relative prosperity enables them to purchase it.

  4. Find out what food choices are sustainable for you and your family; grow your own food, work with your local farmers, barter/fregan whenever possible; share your extra food with others and any information about your personal food choices with others in your community, encouraging them to do the same. Thank you for this important post, Walt … May one less person go to bed hungry tonight because of your thoughtfulness.

  5. Even the most dire predictions don’t figure in the imminent collapse of various ocean food chains. And the Reichwwhiners don’t realize that, should the Western Pacific collapse, there won’t be any more cheap corn syrup or soy protein from China. The funny, in a sick way, part is that they think that relative wealth somehow immunizes them against famine.

  6. BTW.

    I’ve found other things to do besides commenting at TP and, since their new system would require me to patronize companies I don’t care for and the trolls have already cracked the system, I would appreciate it if one of you fine people would pass along a sincere “farewell” from me. Thanks!

Comments are closed.