If OPEC can limit oil supplies (thus creating high energy prices) I see no reason why the rest of the world can't divert grain to fuel generation to
create high food prices.
The results from this biofuel program are draining the Federal Treasury to enrich large agribusiness, are
creating high food prices and exacerbating hunger pressures, and are probably actually worsening the net impact on the global climate.
Not exact matches
We've seen how supply management for dairy, poultry and eggs hurts a) consumers through artificially
high prices; b)
food processors (and the jobs they could be
creating in Canada) because of their inability to compete internationally; c) exporters of all kinds looking for more international trade access, but which Canada is denied because of supply management; d) the majority of Canadian farmers (over 90 per cent)-- those who grow and produce beef, pork, grains, oilseeds, pulses, and who are not supply managed — who would also benefit from more international trade access; and finally e) most ironically, dairy farmers themselves, also prevented from exploiting international growth opportunities.
To justify
higher menu
prices and keep consumers returning, it will be up to the test kitchens back at the headquarters of fast -
food giants to
create tempting new products.
«We have taken our experience and our passion for good
food and
created our newest venture — mouth - watering,
high - quality meals that are delicious, reasonably
priced and incorporate the best ingredients available,» the company says.
Higher -
priced pet
food could
create pushback from consumers who are ready to draw a line in the sand.
At VICTOR, our passion is
creating nutritionally complete dog
food with advanced, proven ingredients, providing your pet with the
highest standard of nutrition at every life stage — without the premium
price.
Our goal was to
create a
food that is simple to use, made with only
high - quality ingredients, one with an appetizing consistency and that was reasonably
priced.
Adding in much
higher -
priced pet
food may help the bottom line of the suppliers that offer them, but they could also
create pushback from consumers who are ready to draw a line in the sand.
Fortunately, the
price of rice — a staple
food for billions of poor people in Asia — has remained stable, so the
high prices are not generally expected to
create a hunger crisis.
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Here in the United States, farmers are pulling land out of the federal conservation program, threatening fragile habitats... Most troubling, though, is that the
higher food prices caused in large part by
food - to - fuel mandates
create incentives for global deforestation, including in the Amazon basin.
This ill - conceived U.S. effort to reduce its oil insecurity has helped drive world grain
prices to all - time
highs,
creating unprecedented world
food insecurity.
And in the mean time, it's
creating monocultures that are vulnerable to national security threats, are now vulnerable to sky -
high food prices or crashes in
food prices, huge swings in commodity
prices, and are partly responsible for the explosion in our healthcare costs because they're contributing to type 2 diabetes, stroke and heart disease, obesity, all the things that are driving our huge explosion in healthcare costs.
Though the factors that have
created the ongoing unrest across the Middle East and North Africa are numerous, both peak oil and
high food prices seem to have played a role.