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Myths And Facts On Global Food Crisis
By Mr Ethanol | April 21, 2008
EcoWorldly:
The global food crisis. That is the big news item that makes it on to your living room via the media channels. Everybody has said something about the problem, and now everybody agrees it is a crisis. But at what cost? How does one separate the chaff from the wheat? How do we separate facts from myths? Who is throwing punches at the other? Who blames what as the cause of the massive food shortage?
The global food crisis is so gripping and serious that the World Food Programme is cutting food handout rations to some 73 million people in 78 countries.
This is a sample of what people have said about what makes the world’s hungry (3 billion are at imminent risk the last time I checked, and actually 850 million slept on empty stomachs last night) get so angry to violently knock at the gates of aristocrats demanding to be fed, or at least access to food, basically:
Unnamed protester, on the streets of Damascus, Syria:
1. “Even parsley, for which we paid almost nothing in the past, has suddenly tripled in price.”
Raisa Fikry, Egyptian stay-at-home mother:
2. “If all the people rise, then the government will resolve this, but everyone has to rise together. People get scared. But we will all have to rise together.”
Olwich Louis Jeune, scavenger on the Haitian mud pits:
3. “It’s salty and it has butter and you don’t know you’re eating dirt. It makes your stomach quiet down.”
Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary General:
4. “The rapidly escalating crisis of food availability around the world has reached emergency proportions.”
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