Organic News 3

and changes towards diets common in western nations,’ the report
by Malik Falkenmark and colleagues at the Stockholm
International Water Institute (SIWI) said. The days of very
cheap meat are coming to an end. Meat will be increasingly
viewed as a “luxury” around the globe from now on.
Sadly, there are some in the financial world that
actually intend to make lots of money off of this
crisis.... The United Nations, aid agencies and the British
Government have lined up to attack the world’s largest commodities
trading company, Glencore, after it described the
current global food crisis and soaring world prices as a ‘good’
business opportunity.
With the US experiencing a rerun of the drought
‘Dust Bowl’ days of the 1930s and Russia suffering
a similar food crisis that could see Vladimir Putin’s
government banning grain exports, the senior economist of
the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, Concepcion
Calpe, told The Independent: ‘Private companies like Glencore
are playing a game that will make them enormous profits.’
Does that disturb you? It should.
Driving up the price of food for starving people
is not a good way to make money. Food is one
of our most basic needs. When people are deprived of food
they become very desperate.
Just look at what is already happening in Spain.
The economic crisis in that country has just begun,
and people are already looting supermarkets. You can
see a video news report about Spanish activists looting 3 tons
of food from local supermarkets right here.
Much of that food was donated to food banks,
but in the future I am sure that the desperate
“activists” will not be so generous when things get really
tight.
In other areas of Spain, large numbers of people
have been filmed digging through trash dumpsters
for food.
Could you ever see yourself doing that? Don’t be
so sure that hunger will never come to you.
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