Comments on: Food Shortages Herald "New Era Of Hunger"

As More Countries Suffer Riots Over Rising Prices And Shortages Of Staples, Aid Groups Call For Relief

[ubrew12]

Texas rice ''farmers'' get so much money from the government they don''t need to grow anything. Something like $1.5 billion from the last Farm Bill.

We also give US cotton growers billions of our tax dollars to grow a crop they CANT grow profitably. In California, they live in one of the richest counties in the country as a result.

Add the fiction called corn ethanol, and thats why food prices are so high.

[tracy1morgan]

This is all the libs fault. Farm land that was used for growing crops for food is being converted to growing crops for biofuels.

[missingamerica]

Hey, do you suppose Bill Clinton, the Bushes, and the other "free traders" will be eager to take the credit for the dramatic increases in global hunger that their trade policies have ensured are on the horizon?

lollll...not that it matters to them - it never was about doing the right thing by America''s or the world''s peoples....it was and is just about profit.

[barbaraf4]

"Food prices have risen 40 percent globally since mid-2007."
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What percentage has the population grown during that same period?

We can barely afford to feed ourselves under the Bush administration. We cannot be expected to feed the rest of the world.