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  • From: E J <emj@uvic.ca>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] 20 Signs That A Horrific Global Food Crisis Is Coming
  • Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:42:27 -0700

Some of this may be true but quick checks on some stats shows vital information left out....

On 22/04/11 9:45 PM, Tradingpost wrote:
The following are 20 signs that a horrific global food crisis is coming....

#1 According to the World Bank, 44 million people around the globe have been
pushed into extreme poverty since last June because of rising food prices.

#2 The world is losing topsoil at an astounding rate. In fact, according to Lester
Brown, "one third of the world's cropland is losing topsoil faster than new soil
is forming through natural processes".

#3 Due to U.S. ethanol subsidies, almost a third of all corn grown in the
United States is now used for fuel. This is putting a lot of stress on the
price of corn.

#4 Due to a lack of water, some countries in the Middle East find themselves
forced to almost totally rely on other nations for basic food staples. For
example, it is being projected that there will be no more wheat production in
Saudi Arabia by the year 2012.
Yes, but Saudi Arabia is one of the worlds smallest wheat producers and wheat production in 2008 & 2009 reached highest levels ever (International wheat production statistics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_wheat_production_statistics)
#5 Water tables all over the globe are being depleted at an alarming rate due to
"overpumping". According to the World Bank, there are 130 million people in
China and 175 million people in India that are being fed with grain with water that is
being pumped out of aquifers faster than it can be replaced. So what happens once all
of that water is gone?

#6 In the United States, the systematic depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer could eventually turn
"America's Breadbasket" back into the "Dust Bowl".

#7 Diseases such as UG99 wheat rust are wiping out increasingly large
segments of the world food supply.

#8 The tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis in Japan have rendered vast
agricultural areas in that nation unusable. In fact, there are many that
believe that eventually a significant portion of northern Japan will be
considered to be uninhabitable. Not only that, many are now convinced that
the Japanese economy, the third largest economy in the world, is likely to
totally collapse as a result of all this.

#9 The price of oil may be the biggest factor on this list. The way that we
produce our food is very heavily dependent on oil. The way that we transport
our food is very heavily dependent on oil. When you have skyrocketing oil
prices, our entire food production system becomes much more expensive. If
the price of oil continues to stay high, we are going to see much higher food
prices and some forms of food production will no longer make economic sense
at all.

#10 At some point the world could experience a very serious fertilizer
shortage. According to scientists with the Global Phosphorus Research
Initiative, the world is not going to have enough phosphorous to meet
agricultural demand in just 30 to 40 years.

#11 Food inflation is already devastating many economies around the globe.
For example, India is dealing with an annual food inflation rate of 18
percent.

#12 According to the United Nations, the global price of food reached a new
all-time high in February.

#13 According to the World Bank, the global price of food has risen 36% over
the past 12 months.
#14 The commodity price of wheat has approximately doubled since last summer.

#15 The commodity price of corn has also about doubled since last summer.

#16 The commodity price of soybeans is up about 50% since last June.

#17 The commodity price of orange juice has doubled since 2009.
Rice prices down 2% (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13108166)
#18 There are about 3 billion people around the globe that live on the
equivalent of 2 dollars a day or less and the world was already on the verge
of economic disaster before this year even began.

#19 2011 has already been one of the craziest years since World War 2.
Revolutions have swept across the Middle East, the United States has gotten
involved in the civil war in Libya, Europe is on the verge of a financial
meltdown and the U.S. dollar is dying. None of this is good news for global
food production.

#20 There have been persistent rumors of shortages at some of the biggest suppliers of
emergency food in the United States. The following is an excerpt from a recent
"special alert" posted on Raiders News Network....

Look around you. Read the headlines. See the largest factories of food,
potassium iodide, and other emergency product manufacturers literally closing
their online stores and putting up signs like those on Mountain House's
Official Website and Thyrosafe's Factory Webpage that explain, due to
overwhelming demand, they are shutting down sales for the time being and hope
to reopen someday.

So what does all of this mean?

It means that time is short.

For years, many "doom and gloomers" have been yelling and screaming that a
food crisis is coming.

Well, up to this point there hasn't been much to get alarmed about. Food
prices have started to rise, but the truth is that our stores are still
packed to the rafters will gigantic amounts of relatively cheap food.

However, you would have to be an idiot not to see the warning signs. Just
look at what happened in Japan after March 11th. Store shelves were cleared
out almost instantly.

It isn't going to happen today, and it probably isn't going to happen
tomorrow, but at some point a major league food crisis is going to strike.

So what are you and your family going to do then?

You might want to start thinking about that.


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