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disappointment

Why are 2.5 billion people—more than 40 percent of the human race—in imminent danger of famine?

...around the world and especially in the United States, grains are not being grown to concentrate on food anymore. Thanks to the Green Nuts and -especially the U.S. grain ethanol lobby—an increasingly large portion of the U.S. Midwest and huge areas of Brazil are being converted to crops to produce ethanol for fuel.

we are in the midst of a food crisis. Domestic prices of basic foods have risen by 46% over the past year, putting even more pressure on already stressed consumers. Overseas, food riots have occurred in Haiti, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Indonesia, Yemen, and as close to our borders as Mexico. These riots were severe enough to bring down the Haitian government of Jacques Edouard Alexis. Others may follow.

Warmer climate has always produced longer growing seasons and greater arable land area, less political turmoil (war), less starvation and famine...

And this year I’ve got a plague of voles… *sigh*

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