Amos 3:7

People and Children of the World Are Starving

Comment:  As food becomes a commodity with less availability..and drought along with energy prices increasing, we still do not get any understanding about the futile estate of man without God in it..So as we continue to expel any claim to biblical thruths and acknowledge our own self as a God…Such as we see in Oprah’s latest deception on a course in miracles…The deception grows greater as the time clock of God’s grace is closing on this age..And the judgement of a world in it’s own problems and solutions…Could this food crissis mark a greater global problem…Is heaven revealing future crissis to come? Are you preparing your Spirit for the times which are coming?

By DAVID STRINGER
Associated Press Writer

LONDON (AP) — Ration cards. Genetically modified crops. The end of pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap supermarkets.

These possible solutions to the first global food crisis since World War II – which the World Food Program says already threatens 20 million of the poorest children – are complex and controversial. And they may not even solve the problem as demand continues to soar.

A “silent tsunami” of hunger is sweeping the world’s most desperate nations, said Josette Sheeran, the WFP’s executive director, speaking Tuesday at a London summit on the crisis.

The skyrocketing cost of food staples, stoked by rising fuel prices, unpredictable weather and demand from India and China, has already sparked sometimes violent protests across the Caribbean, Africa and Asia.

The price of rice has more than doubled in the last five weeks, she said. The World Bank estimates food prices have risen by 83 percent in three years.

“What we are seeing now is affecting more people on every continent,” Sheeran told a news conference.

Hosting talks with Sheeran, lawmakers and experts, British Prime Gordon Brown said the spiraling prices threaten to plunge millions back into poverty and reverse progress on alleviating misery in the developing world….

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World food fears mount as rice prices hit record

Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:52pm EDT By Apornrath Phoonphongphiphat and Lesley Wroughton

BANGKOK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Concerns about food security mounted on Thursday, as rice prices hit records in Asia and the United Nations warned that staples for the world’s hungry were getting much more expensive.

In the United States, Bush Administration officials downplayed notions of food shortages amid reports of worried buyers stocking up on rice in major chain stores.

“In the U.S., I don’t see food shortages,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told Reuters in an interview. “We have plenty of food in the U.S. The price of food has gone up, but again that won’t be as significant for the average American as gasoline.”

Rice prices hit record highs in Thailand and in electronic trading of Chicago Board of Trade futures during Asian trading hours. This week’s 5 percent jump in Thailand rice takes prices to $1,000 a ton, nearly triple their level at the start of the year, intensifying fears of social unrest in Asia.

Rice prices on the CBOT are up about 80 percent this year, hitting a record of more than $25 per hundredweight in Asian trading hours, then retreating in Chicago on profit taking.

Riots have erupted in Africa and Haiti due to the surging price of fuel and food. The International Monetary Fund is in talks with governments in 10 countries, mostly in Africa, about boosting aid to cover soaring food prices, a spokesman said.

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