Food shortages article in Wall St. Journal

Ohio Rusty · #1 04/14/08, 03:49 PM

Interesting article today in teh Wall Street Journal about the troubling conditions in the world today:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1208...googlenews_wsj

This one is front page blog news on Yahoo:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/2008041...dtoppleregimes

Things are really getting bad for the third world countries .....

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paintlady · #2 04/14/08, 05:02 PM

This is an interesting article. Thanks for posting it.

gideonprime · #3 04/14/08, 05:10 PM

Also If anyone listens to NPR they are doing a week long look at the shortage. What I heard thismorning sounded very interesting.

I bet you could also find it online at the npr web site.

Ohio Rusty · #4 04/14/08, 06:23 PM

I just found another article that puts the spotlight on the problem also. There was one statement in there that shocked me:

"The global supply of wheat is lower than it's been in about 50 years — just five weeks' worth of world consumption is on hand, according to the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization."

What happens in 5 weeks when all the stored wheat in the world runs out? What do the starving masses of the world do then?
Here is the article:
http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...-world-related

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