Guardian UK: World food prices enter 'danger territory' to reach record high

Soaring prices of sugar, grain and oilseed drove world food prices to a record in December, surpassing the levels of 2008 when the cost of food sparked riots around the world, and prompting warnings of prices being in "danger territory".

An index compiled monthly by the United Nations surpassed its previous monthly high – June 2008 – in December to reach the highest level since records began in 1990. Published by the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation, the index tracks the prices of a basket of cereals, oilseeds, dairy, meat and sugar, and has risen for six consecutive months.

Abdolreza Abbassian, FAO economist, told the Guardian: "We are entering a danger territory." But he stressed that the situation was not yet as bad as 2008.

Sugar and meat prices are at record levels while cereal prices are back at the levels last seen in 2008 when riots in Haiti killed four people and riots in Cameroon left 40 people dead. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jan/05/world-food-prices-danger-record-high-un

called "society" is an impregnable, virtual Utopia for the deadbeat rich, then we are compelled to acknowledge the place and fate of what they refer to as "useless eaters". Maybe it was about money once, but now it has transitioned to forms of power that imply survival in the long-run.

When the great pyramid collapses, or is demolished, then something might happen. Resources are going critical.