Fat Chicks always come home to roost. Believe it!
Posted in International News
Apr. 2, 2008 at 10:03
by BrendaBee
Remember this post?The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Who knew?
Mar. 14, 2008 at 17:24'{5} When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. {6} Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!" Revelations 6: 1-8
I read an article today forecasting food shortages worldwide being imminent that brought to mind the above Bible verse. This is especially eerie when you consider 'A quart of wheat for a day's wages…” as compared to this paragraph from the article: 'This rise in prices is a consequence of both demand and supply trends. On the demand side, the key factor has been the strong consumption growth in emerging markets, which in turn has been powered by those countries' impressive income gains. China, for example, has accounted for up to 40 per cent of the increase in global consumption of soybeans and meat over the past decade.”
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Today I discovered three articles in a row while roaming headlines about the food shortages. They brought the above post to mind. Here are the three articles I found today:
Hunger
Headline ; A 'perfect storm' of hunger
Headlines: Food Prices Rise, Farmers Respond
"CHICAGO — Faced with strong worldwide food demand and the accompanying higher prices, American farmers are beginning to respond to the signals of the market. In a new government report, farmers said they would make significant cuts in corn acreage this year in favor of soybeans."
"The release Monday morning of the Agriculture Department’s report on farmers’ plans, based on interviews with growers during the first two weeks of March, caused the price of corn in the commodities markets to rise past $6 a bushel for the first time, before falling back. Soybean prices, meanwhile, fell 70 cents to $10.89 on expectations of a greater supply."
Traders in the soybean option pit at the Chicago Board of Trade. Farmers said they would plant 18 percent more acres of soybeans.
And another: Hunger
Food stamps are the symbol of poverty in the US. In the era of the credit crunch, a record 28 million Americans are now relying on them to survive – a sure sign the world's richest country faces economic crisis
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Disadvantaged Americans queue for aid in New York
Tuesday, 1 April 2008
We knew things were bad on Wall Street, but on Main Street it may be worse. Startling official statistics show that as a new economic recession stalks the United States, a record number of Americans will shortly be depending on food stamps just to feed themselves and their families.
Dismal projections by the Congressional Budget Office in Washington suggest that in the fiscal year starting in October, 28 million people in the US will be using government food stamps to buy essential groceries, the highest level since the food assistance programme was introduced in the 1960s."
Does this scare you as much as it does me? Do you wonder how in the hell we got here? Try "greed". A greedy people who had to have all the toys, bells and whistles. We Americans started this with our virulent case of Affluenza. ( Another post: Hunger
Headline: Affluenza, today's killer disease.
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