Conditions cry out for a national food policy, one that recognizes the modern reality of unstable world food supplies in a finite world under increasing human pressure. We need food for our bellies, not our gas habitat. It seems to take chaos beofre government reacts.
Soaring fuel prices, weather-realted crop problems, market greed, increased demand from the burgeoning middle classes in India and China and the push to grow corn and wheat for ethanol fuels are among the factors cited as contributing to the crisis.
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Original: How secure in our food supply?