financialpost.com— A new crisis is emerging, a global food catastrophe that will reach further and be more crippling than anything the world has ever seen.
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This is simple market dislocation. There's pressure on all commodities right now because the changing energy industry paradigm. Some of this lays at the feet of the huge subsidies for US farmers to produce ethanol. That will not end so long as oil prices remain stubbornly high. This is the end of cheap food.
slickchilliJan 5, 2008
and a conspiracy theory here: <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/business_finance/Seed_Vault_Conspiracy_Theory">http://digg.com/business_finance/Seed_Vault_Conspi ...</a>
cattleprodJan 5, 2008
"That will be done with more fertilizer, with genetically modified seeds, and with advanced machinery and technology"They sneak this in at the end
danteangeloJan 5, 2008
This is simple market dislocation. There's pressure on all commodities right now because the changing energy industry paradigm. Some of this lays at the feet of the huge subsidies for US farmers to produce ethanol. That will not end so long as oil prices remain stubbornly high. This is the end of cheap food.