With soaring food prices and a lack of quality food options, I'd encourage all of us to take a play from our grandparents playbook and grow a Victory Garden of some kind to help our families have access to fresh produce and to reduce our food costs each month.
Not exact matches
If petroleum were
priced in terms of its total cost in pollution and
with its scarcity in view,
food prices would
soar.
Rising commodity and ingredients
prices continue to hit the global
food chain
with US
food giant Kraft the next in line to be hit by
price pressures suggesting that despite reasonable fourth quarter figures, the
soaring costs are...
With the world on the verge of another
food crisis (corn, wheat, and soybean
prices are
soaring again), extreme weather patterns becoming more pronounced, carbon emissions on the rise, loss of biodiversity accelerating, we desperately need some «win - win» strategies in our quest to make the world more sustainable.
This has struck a note
with newspapers as disparate as the Times («How to cook without wasting
food») to the Daily Express (a popular tabloid) musing on the effects of the credit crunch and the
soaring price of
food.
If we can not do so, we can expect that
with the next poor harvest,
food prices will
soar, hunger will intensify, and
food unrest will spread.
As farmers struggle to keep up
with soaring demand for grain and soybeans, this ratcheting upward of
food prices ensures that many of the 219,000 new guests at the global dinner table each night are facing empty plates.
For 23 years they have maintained these shindigs
with no effect on the climate but causing great harm to many ordinary people —
soaring costs for unreliable subsidised green electricity, loss of manufacturing and mining jobs, and increased
food costs caused by high power
prices and using
food for ethanol / biodiesel.