Sentences with phrase «food crises seems»

Growing at 1 % a minute, this would put the final maximum world population at over 12 billion, which given our energy and food crises seems to me to be a fair estimate.

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Every time I pick up my kids from school only to discover that they've been chowing down on brownies or chocolate - covered Oreos or candy (which seems to happen at least twice a week), I can't help but think: In the midst of an obesity crisis, why are other people being allowed to shovel my kids full of unhealthy food at school?

Economists have made such a fuss about how complicated the food crisis is that they have created the impression that it has no ready solution, making it seem like one of those intractable problems, like poverty and disease, that are so easy to stash in the back of our minds.

It might have seemed fresher 10 years ago, before this kind of ironic labyrinthine plotting became common, but he has a sharp eye for characters and introduces Sally's parents (Shelley Duvall and Lanny Flaherty) during an apparent fast - food hostage crisis that dissolves into a marital spat before our eyes.

There's been a lot of talk lately about the food crisis, and particularly linking it to growing crops for biofuels (a highly inefficient process which seems to drive prices up, particularly in US policy), but Frances More Lappe argued in her books several years ago that there is, in fact, enough food on the planet to feed us all, but localized political troubles (grain rotting in Haitian ports), increasing desertification, food waste, and problems with global supply chains are better explanations for why so many go hungry.