Sentences with phrase «made food prices rise»

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Mustaq Singh's family is near starvation, and he's heard that a rich man in town is hoarding food, waiting for the price to rise so he can make a huge profit.

Feb 2 U.S. food companies called out rising freight costs as a reason for lower profit margins in the holiday quarter, with more pain seen in 2018 as a dearth of drivers and higher diesel prices make it even more expensive to transport products to stores.

Under the new law prices will rise about 12 per cent for some food products, but that is not as tough as some had feared because it made no mention of preventing goods being mailed to China by shoppers in places like Australia or Hong Kong.

The price of food continues to rise and even the dirt to make the cookies, which comes from the country's central plateau, has gone up in cost.

Talk turns to healthier food as school board raises breakfast, lunch prices (July 27, 2011): Another story focusing on the balancing act required to make school menus healthier while dealing with rising food and meal costs.

The policy was bad enough already - the expected rise in inflation will make it outright toxic as food and fuel prices start to rise.

It's a testament to the resilience of the American working class that between rising prices for basic necessities like housing, food, clothing and gasoline we still have enough left over to make payments on our various debts.

But what if buying Canadian - made luxuries is the answer to rising food prices?

The survey found rising food prices have led to Canadians making more affordable, but less healthy purchases.

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.

Let's not forget ethanol is made from food crops such as corn and right now there's a drought in much of the Midwest, which is causing corn and other crop prices to rise.

Notice, too, that Monsanto is drastically raising prices while it is making phenomenal profits, while food prices are rising dramatically (related often to its grains), leading to food riots around the world, and while fuel is skyrocketing and Monsanto's corn is now the basis of biofuel, and while our economy is tanking.

«half the world is vulnerable to social instability and violence due to rising food and energy prices, failing states, falling water tables, climate change, decreasing water - food - energy supply per person, desertification and increasing migrations due to political, environmental and economic conditions... With nearly three billion people making $ 2 or less per day, long - term global social conflict seems inevitable without more serious food policies, useful scientific breakthroughs and dietary changes».