Food shortages loom as wheat crop shrinks and prices rise »

Posted By berkeley 1 year, 8 months ago in Style

Experts blame climate change as heatwaves caused a slump in harvests last year in eastern Europe, Canada, Morocco and Australia, all big wheat producers. Booming populations and a switch to a meat-rich diet in the developing world also mean that about 110m tons of the world's annual wheat crop is being diverted to feed livestock.

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    berkeley1 year, 8 months ago

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    the world supply is about ten weeks, the lowest in 50 years.

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      BoxMonkey1 year, 8 months ago

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      This too will widen the gap between the haves and have nots .We could use another George Washington Carver and soon .

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        BoxMonkey1 year, 8 months ago

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        kludlow , you are too funny . My buddy used ethanol for his Ford [ugh] Ranger because it was half the price of gas . But , he used twice as much . So there is no savings there . Your third post is what I was gonna say originally . As far as global warming goes , it's minus 8 in the northeast where I'm at and we just got dumped on again with another 18 inches of snow . Global warming my ass .

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          tehranchik1 year, 8 months ago

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          Since when is beer a basic food?

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