{"id":196471,"date":"2008-04-24T05:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/24\/food-crisis-update-2\/"},"modified":"2008-04-24T05:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T10:37:00","slug":"food-crisis-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/24\/food-crisis-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Crisis Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess the part of the story we expect is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The rising prices are &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/TECH\/science\/04\/22\/food.biofuels\/index.html\">threatening to plunge more than 100 million people on every continent into hunger<\/a>,&#8221; Josette Sheeran, executive director of the United Nations&#8217; World Food Program, said on the agency&#8217;s Web site Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Foreign starvation, hand wringing over biofuels, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing to worry about here, we&#8217;re Americans&#8230;right???<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size:180%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">WRONG<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>We are seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/ousiv\/idUSN2232840220080422\">severe shortages of rye flour<\/a>, with no domestic supplies being available around July, and there are currently only 27 days wheat supply.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, we are seeing panic buying, which is forcing big box retailers to <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/04\/23\/news\/companies\/wmt_rice.ap\/index.htm?cnn=yes\">restrict bulk purchases of rice<\/a>, so that they don&#8217;t run out.<\/p>\n<p>We already have hunger in the US, just look at our overburdened food pantries, and it is going to get worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess the part of the story we expect is this: The rising prices are &#8220;threatening to plunge more than 100 million people on every continent into hunger,&#8221; Josette Sheeran, executive director of the United Nations&#8217; World Food Program, said on the agency&#8217;s Web site Tuesday. Foreign starvation, hand wringing over biofuels, etc. Nothing to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[973,1135,1012,1200,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-energy","category-food","category-inflation","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}