Food Prices to Rise by Up to 40% Over Next Decade

[Ladyhawke1]

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/16-1#comment-1534507

My prediction is that it will happen a lot sooner now that the gulf of Mexico is gone. :bee

 

[lesa]

I think we are in a hand basket and you know where we are heading! It is so amazing to me, that our government is turning a blind eye to this. Unfortunately, there are no easy answers. I'll keep growing as much of my own food as I can, and write letters, and vote, but it is just a drop in the bucket. Headline in my local paper today "Farmers consider rotational grazing to help cut costs". Really????

 

[patandchickens]

Of course, if food prices rose 40%, then Americans would end up paying approximately the same percentage of their income for food that MOST OF THE WORLD pays now (in fact it'd still less than a lot of places)...

Be interesting to see Americans have to learn that cell phones and computers and new cars and clothes and household decorations are not actually as important a thing to spend money on as FOOD is.

JMHO,

Pat

 

[ducks4you]

I am thankful that our food does NOT cost what the rest of the world pays. Isn't it interesting that WHERE the food costs more, OFTENTIMES the govenments have interfered as middlemen.

Sorry, I DON'T believe that we, the benevolent population of the US, who sends WWWAAAAYYYY more money to help other people in other countries should be asked to share the misery. Rather pointless.

 

[seedcorn]

Of course, if food prices rose 40%, then Americans would end up paying approximately the same percentage of their income for food that MOST OF THE WORLD pays now (in fact it'd still less than a lot of places)...

Be interesting to see Americans have to learn that cell phones and computers and new cars and clothes and household decorations are not actually as important a thing to spend money on as FOOD is.

JMHO,

Pat

Americans spend about 5% on food. Most of their food budget is spent on processing.

Imagine if the american farmer wasn't raising 160 bu corn but raised 50 bu/acre open pollinated. What about if the american farmer wasn't weaning over 20 pigs/sow/year instead of the 10/sow/year of the 1970's. Where would food prices be?

We in American are a spoiled, pampered lot with no reality of the real world.

 

[Ladyhawke1]

Of course, if food prices rose 40%, then Americans would end up paying approximately the same percentage of their income for food that MOST OF THE WORLD pays now (in fact it'd still less than a lot of places)...

Be interesting to see Americans have to learn that cell phones and computers and new cars and clothes and household decorations are not actually as important a thing to spend money on as FOOD is.

JMHO,

Pat

OMG! Don't even get me started on cell phones!

 

[wifezilla]

Remember the WW2 victory gardens?

"The result of victory gardening? The US Department of Agriculture estimates that more than 20 million victory gardens were planted. Fruit and vegetables harvested in these home and community plots was estimated to be 9-10 million tons, an amount equal to all commercial production of fresh vegetables. "
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/crops_02.html

Some of us have already started our own victory gardens....or freedom gardens. Call em what you want now days

 

[Ladyhawke1]

I am thankful that our food does NOT cost what the rest of the world pays. Isn't it interesting that WHERE the food costs more, OFTENTIMES the govenments have interfered as middlemen.

Sorry, I DON'T believe that we, the benevolent population of the US, who sends WWWAAAAYYYY more money to help other people in other countries should be asked to share the misery. Rather pointless.

OUR SHARE dwindled years ago. The media has just failed to report it to us.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0729-03.htm 2005

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/10/11-0 2009

It started way before these dates.

When people are unable to feed themselves because of weather changes, wars for resources, or WTO interferences with a peoples natural production methods, their world becomes unstable. These things spread.
These things like warsI am not worried about my freedoms being protected. However, you can sure bet the OIL MEN are worried about the OIL and Mineral wealth in other peoples countries, like Afghanistan, and how they can get their hands on it and already have. Who is kidding whom here?

Our soldiers are fighting and killing other people to keep the multinational corporations rich. Read the famous quote of General Smedley Butler who said in 1935:

I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class thug for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 19021912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

 

[wifezilla]

Capitalism doesn't require thugs and gangsters. Thuggery is an abuse of capitalism. Capitalism is nothing more than 2 individuals trading value for value without force, cohesion, deception, theft, etc...

People do all kinds of things in the name of capitalism that aren't capitalism at all. Just like people do things in the name of religion that no truly religious person would ever do.

 

[Hattie the Hen]

Yet more revelations......!!It goes on & on & on & in the end we all suffer one way or another.....!

Headline is:

"How Goldman gambled on starvation
Speculators set up a casino where the chips were the stomachs of millions. What does it say about our system that we can so casually inflict so much pain?"

Article by Johan Hari in The Independent newspaper in the UK

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinio...ow-goldman-gambled-on-starvation-2016088.html

Hattie