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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 21:48:23 -0700

see the info I inserted below.

On 25/04/11 8:09 PM, Tradingpost wrote:
I'd like to know what you see left out; there are many angles to this. From what
I've seen it's not coming, it's already here and has been for some time and will
get worse than the writer could imagine in worst case scenario. For example, the
consequences of continuing glacial melt on the Tibetan Plateau& Himalayas -
feeding the rivers that support 3 billion in south and east Asia. At current
rates the effects should start to be felt this decade. Closer to home the
drawdown on the Ogallalah Aquifer has bankrupted lots of farmers in the NM-TX
border area not too far from me. It's wells water much of the midwest breadbasket.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 4/25/2011 at 4:42 PM E J wrote:

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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