04-27-2008, 12:02 PM
Lots of stories this week about the Global Food Crisis
Soaring global food prices could unleash a “silent tsunami” that would plunge 100 million people who previously did not require help to buy food into hunger and poverty
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Protest in Egypt over the crisis in supplying subsidized pita bread…
A women in Ohio replacing Lucky Charms cereal with the cheaper Millville Marshmallows and Stars
(KOTA BARU) The Government will introduce a "holistic" package to deal with the global shortage of food commodities, including calling for a reduction in rice consumption.
Wal-Mart Stores reports stronger-than-usual sales of peanut butter and spaghetti
More than 1,000 people, some carrying empty rice sacks, marched through Senegal's capital Dakar on Saturday to protest against rising food prices, the latest such demonstration in impoverished West Africa
Soaring global food prices could unleash a “silent tsunami” that would plunge 100 million people who previously did not require help to buy food into hunger and poverty
– some other bytes...
Protest in Egypt over the crisis in supplying subsidized pita bread…
A women in Ohio replacing Lucky Charms cereal with the cheaper Millville Marshmallows and Stars
(KOTA BARU) The Government will introduce a "holistic" package to deal with the global shortage of food commodities, including calling for a reduction in rice consumption.
Wal-Mart Stores reports stronger-than-usual sales of peanut butter and spaghetti
More than 1,000 people, some carrying empty rice sacks, marched through Senegal's capital Dakar on Saturday to protest against rising food prices, the latest such demonstration in impoverished West Africa