Monday, Jun 18, 2007
Global Food Crisis Emerging
organicconsumers: Lowest Food Supplies in 50 or 100 Years
Not directly related to HPC but food for thought. No pun intended
Posted by sold 2 rent 1 @ 04:11 PM (145 views) Add Comment
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1. cyril said...
This is the downside of rapid industrialisation in developing countries. If everyone on this planet ate as much as the average American, you'd need 3 planet earths to grow all the food (probably the same for UK consumption as well). Although this may be a scare story by the GM crop industry, eager to profit from others' misfortune as usual.
2. Boz said...
Adding further pressure to food supplies, as a result of climate change, will be the fact that farmers of crops will be making decisions over whether they plant a field with food crops (ie. for human consumption) or energy crops (ie. those used for ethanol, bio-diesel, etc). Market forces will ensure there is a direct supply conflict over the products we eat as humans versus those products we feed our cars, boats, and planes.
3. lvmreader said...
I disagree @Sold 2 Rent 1,
This is highly relevant.
Faced with food or rent, people do the food thing.
4. nearly30 said...
Now that's a big worry - although may improve the agricultural base of this country.
For now - I have an allotment to fall back on - mmmm home grown strawberries!!
5. sovietuk said...
Maybe this is a covert way of dealing with the obesity epidemic. Price the proles (mainly private sector) out of eating.
6. japanese uncle said...
Knowing the global supply of agricultural products is now controlled by a few giant American businesses, I won't believe this is a sheer coincidence. Someone must be coordinating everything, to stage a global economic disaster.
7. Scott said...
What a load of rubbish! There has never been so much food. My Grandad's day is when they had it bad. In his house when he was a kid, they had a padlock on the larder and when he won a silver swimming medal his mother sold it to get more food in for that month.