Once the Globalists starve and kill us, they will have both:
"UN agency warns world food supply dwindling; Global warming, grain costs among the reasons cited" by Elisabeth Rosenthal/International Herald Tribune December 18, 2007
ROME - In what was described as an "unforeseen and unprecedented" shift, the world food supply is dwindling rapidly and food prices are soaring to historic levels, the top food and agriculture official of the United Nations warned yesterday.
The changes created "a very serious risk that fewer people will be able to get food," particularly in the developing world, said Jacques Diouf, head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
Reserves of cereals are severely depleted, FAO records show. World wheat stores declined 11 percent this year, to the lowest level since 1980. Prices of wheat and oilseeds are at record highs, Diouf said.
Diouf blamed a confluence of recent supply and demand factors for the crisis, and he predicted that those factors would be here to stay. On the supply side, these include the early effects of global warming, which has decreased crop yields in some crucial places, and a shift away from farming for human consumption toward crops for biofuels and cattle feed. Demand for grain is increasing with the world population, and more is diverted to feed cattle as the population of upwardly mobile meat-eaters grows.
To make matters worse, high oil prices have doubled shipping costs in the past year, putting enormous stress on poor nations that need to import food as well as the humanitarian agencies that provide it.
Climate specialists say that the vulnerability will only increase as further effects of climate change are felt. "If there's a significant change in climate in one of our high production areas, if there is a disease that affects a major crop, we are in a very risky situation," said Mark Howden of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Canberra.
Already "unusual weather events" linked to climate change - such as droughts, floods, and storms - have decreased production in important exporting countries such as Australia and Ukraine, Diouf said.
"In the US, Australia, and Europe, there's a very substantial capacity to adapt to the effects on food - with money, technology, research and development," Howden said. "In the developing world, there isn't."
Diouf suggested that all countries and international agencies would have to revisit agricultural and aid policies they had adopted "in a different economic environment." For example, with food and oil prices approaching record highs, it may not make sense to send food aid to poorer countries, but instead to focus on helping farmers grow food locally.
The Food and Agriculture Organization plans to start a new initiative that will offer farmers in poor countries vouchers that can be redeemed for seeds and fertilizer, and will try to help them adapt to climate change.
The recent scientific data concluded that farmers could adjust to up to 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit of warming by switching to more resilient species, changing planting times, or storing water for irrigation, for example.
But after that, "all bets are off," said Francesco Tubiello of the Columbia University Earth Institute. "Many people assume that we will never have a problem with food production on a global scale, but there is a strong potential for negative surprises."
Preparing you for starvation, folks!
ANOTHER ROUTE to MARTIAL LAW?
Food riots?
"US corn boom threatens sea life; Fertilizer runoff polluting Gulf" by Henry C. Jackson/Associated Press December 18, 2007
JEFFERSON, Iowa - Because of rising demand for ethanol, American farmers are growing more corn than at any time since the Depression. And sea life in the Gulf of Mexico is paying the price.
The nation's corn crop is fertilized with millions of pounds of nitrogen-based fertilizer. And when that nitrogen runs off fields in Corn Belt states, it makes its way to the Mississippi River and eventually pours into the Gulf, where it contributes to a growing "dead zone" - a 7,900-square-mile patch so depleted of oxygen that fish, crabs, and shrimp suffocate.
The dead zone was discovered in 1985 and has grown fairly steadily since then, forcing fishermen to venture farther and farther out to sea to find their catch. For decades, fertilizer has been considered the prime cause of the lifeless spot.
Farmers realize the connection between their crop and problems downstream, but with the price of corn soaring, it doesn't make sense to grow anything else. And growing corn isn't profitable without nitrogen-based fertilizer.
Given the market pressure to grow corn, the Natural Resources Defense Council and others say the nation needs a comprehensive, federal approach to the problem."
NO! A federal approach is what GOT US in this MESS!!!!
"As Ethanol Takes Its First Steps, Congress Proposes a Giant Leap"
Globalists in the MSM, everywhere you look!
Yup, let's POISON the world some more with CHEMICALS, and then wonder why there are health problems!
"Wheat prices soar as US crops go to fill demand elsewhere; Costs hit record and analysts say grain shortage is possible" by Associated Press December 18, 2007
NEW YORK - Wheat prices surged above $10 a bushel for the first time ever yesterday amid concerns that strong demand globally could result in a grain shortage in the United States next year - worsening food price inflation.
Other commodities markets mostly declined, with energy, other agricultural futures, and metals moving lower.
Wheat supplies in the United States have dwindled this year as one wheat crop after another around the world has been damaged by poor weather, most recently in Australia and Argentina. That's sent buyers scrambling for stockpiles at any cost. US wheat exporters already have sold more than 90 percent of the 1.175 billion bushels the Department of Agriculture expects will be exported during the whole marketing year, which ends in June 2008.
Wheat prices crossing the $10 a bushel threshold won't immediately translate into a spike in retail prices for bread, cereal, cookies, and other products, experts say. That's partly because companies like Kellogg Co., General Mills Inc., ConAgra Foods Inc., and Kraft Foods Inc. typically protect themselves from price volatility with long-term supply contracts. But analysts say consumers should expect that higher wheat prices will eventually work their way into the grocery aisle."
See that, America?!
EXPORTING FOOD while YOU GO HUNGRY!
And DRIVING UP PRICES for BIG AGRA!!!!
Sigh!
"Food and Fuel Compete for Land"
"Among the favorite targets is ethanol, especially for food manufacturers and livestock farmers who seethe at government mandates for ethanol production. The ethanol boom, they contend, is raising corn prices, driving up the cost of producing dairy products and meat, and causing farmers to plant so much corn as to crowd out other crops."
Yup, a GOVERNMENT-MANUFACTURED CRISIS!!!
A GLOBALIST GOVERNMENT-CREATED CRISIS, I might add!!!!
"W.T.O. to Look at U.S. Subsidies"
GENEVA (AP) — The World Trade Organization opened an investigation Monday into whether the United States was violating international commerce rules that limited subsidies to American farmers, three days after the United States Senate approved a $286 billion farm bill.
Brazil and Canada, frustrated by American resistance to cutting back on subsidies, asked the W.T.O. to condemn Washington for exceeding permitted levels of what it called trade-distorting handouts to American producers of crops like corn, cotton, rice, soybean and wheat.
The panel created Monday is expected to issue a first ruling in 2008. The dispute system often takes years before a final decision is reached, but it can force countries to change their legislation or face billions of dollars in retaliatory sanctions.
A United States trade lawyer, Juan Millán, said Washington’s payments had always been below the limits. “The United States has designed its farm programs to ensure compliance with the existed negotiated limits on domestic support,” he said. “We believe that a panel will agree.”
The battle over farm subsidies could become a landmark dispute for the W.T.O. because Brazil’s complaint includes payments for ethanol production. The trade body has largely steered clear of energy issues in its 12-year history."
Yup, BYE-BYE NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY, Amurka!
"Start-Up Sells Solar Panels at Lower-Than-Usual Cost" by JOHN MARKOFF
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The company chose to build its plant in southern San Jose, news that was cheered by local development officials. Much of the microelectronics industry created here has moved to Asia and new factories are a rare commodity in Silicon Valley."
Yup, the GOOD JOBS we were promised are GONE!
Did you read between the lines?
This world is going to get REAL BAD, REAL FAST!!
I love all the people who are out there -- except those undeserving mass-murdering liars who deserve my scorn!!!!
Thank you for reading me, and I've tried to stop this globalist scourge!
SCREAMED to the HEAVENS in fact!
