Sentences with phrase «creating 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.

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.

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.