Re: Food Prices Changing Diets, Oxfam-Backed Survey Says

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I think that in part this is planned, or at least desired, by those in power. Ever since Malthus, some have been obsessed with using the food supply as a means of control, though actually that itself is nothing new since one sees it in various forms and for various reasons before him. Also consider how those in the White House are leading a charge to force people to eat more fruits and vegetables than grains. For one thing this is rather silly because fruits and vegetables typically take more water to produce and far more labor than a grain crop like wheat or soybeans. Also, fruits and vegetables don't keep as long as grains and such can (wheat can be stored for long period in silos but vegetables will need refrigeration of freezing and still won't last as long).

Its all about control and not working with what the nation produces best. That's the problem with this kind of people: they don't work with what they have and the way things are but they way they dream would be best regardless of the consequences, which I don't think they are either capable of even considering or they are so sociopathic they like the idea of inflicting human misery so they can offer programs to ameliorate the suffering they created and gain even more power.

In a message dated 6/16/2011 12:14:59 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

More than half said they eat different food than two years ago, mainly for cost and health reasons, according to the survey of more than 16,000 people by Globescan Inc., a Toronto-based researcher, for Oxfam International. Global food prices have increased 37 percent in the past year, the United Nations says. "Huge numbers of people, especially in the world's poorest countries, are cutting back on the quantity or quality of the food they eat because of rising food prices," Offenheiser, the president of the U.S. affiliate of Oxford, UK- based Oxfam, said in a news release. The results of the survey were released today.