World on brink of social unrest over food prices

Source: Gulf News

Dubai: Protests by angry youths in Algeria are just one example of the alarming signs on the horizon with regard to rising food prices.

Food inflation in many Asian countries, including China and India, is in double digits. The Kenyan government has issued a drought and famine alert after reports of several people having died from hunger-related causes.

International organisations are talking of "a food price shock" hitting the world.

With food supplies and prices making headlines around the globe for the second time in less than three years, experts are warning of the possibility of social unrest sweeping through poor countries.

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Oh, wait... :( Perhaps we should look at this possible malfeasance.

K & R!

Good thing the Banksters bought up all the family farms and can now control prices and profits.

Oh, we are SO lucky!

fuck authority! our leaders are there to make themselves and their friends rich, they deserve to be dethroned....

When I was young, I was conservative. When I was middle aged, I was liberal. Now that I'm old, I'm a bomb throwing anarchist.

:) LOL

That's what some enlightened people still say.

but as I have written countless times before, if you want people in this nation to actually get pissed about anything, raise the price of gas to at least 5 bucks a gallon. Then and only then will you see people protesting or rioting. If they can't drive the quarter of a mile to get their big gulp, god help our political halfwits.

As long as we're feeding our food to the machines, food prices are going to hit the outer stratosphere.

But who cares? Dumb subservient proletarians should stop complaining. There's so much caviar left for us rich people to eat.

ya got it right there .....

the type of grain that is used for making ethanol is none eatable for humans. That grain would tear our stomachs apart. However, cattle would gladly eat it and they do.

The failure at hand, to me is, using perfectly good farm land to grow an energy source, that is a mono crop and water intensive, rather than grow an eatable nourishing crop.

The heart of the matter with the growing of feed stocks for fuel is it's destruction on the land in the form of erosion and the sapping of nutrients from the soil.

As a result, the land/soil basically becomes dead unless huge amounts of fossil fuel bast fertilizers are constantly pumped into it in order for the corn to grow.

Ironic, isn't it? Here the government is paying subsidies to agra-corp and the like to promote a green fuel which requires natural gas based fertilizers to grow.

It takes more energy per acre to grow, extract and refine ethanol than it does gasoline.

Actually, at the moment, the energy in on energy out is a loss on ethanol. It's something like 4 to 3.

We are a stupid bunch.

Starving people while the corporate aristocracy gets big fat billion dollar bonuses courtesy of our tax dollars.

Saving the multi-millionaires and billionaires while the masses starve. That's the plan man.

Because it's not good enough to have most of the wealth of the nation in your pocket, you have take away what little others have too.

dept of interior and the dept of agriculture, nothing is going to change.

to join these protests and stop the thievery. We know it will affect us, yet we will wait till then....disgusting. We have so many tons of food rotting in silos and warehouses it is unbelievable. We can kill third world inhabitants, yet we can not feed them? We leave it for the rats?

until then, it's a happy motoring dystopia.

Duncan Green doesnt think so

http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=4210

About 30 per cent of corn crop is going to ethanol. An inefficient source for biofuel. Replacing food.
In Illinois field after field is devoted to corn. Meanwhile the price of land has skyrocketed. Every mile or so you can see a huge corn storage cylinder. It's all because of the subsidies on corn.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1149215820070611

Think they help the small farmer? Take a look at the money these huge farm factories receive.

http://farm.ewg.org/top_recips.php?fips=00000&progcode=corn®ionname=theUnitedStates

Recipients of Corn Subsidies** from farms in United States totaled $73,793,000,000 in from 1995-2009.

as long as the mouth breathers in this nation can still get their fucking big macs and mystery fries, there will be no complaining here.

We live in a self induced food dystopia.