Are we about to see a massive rice shortage in Asia? Thailand and Vietnam, the two largest rice exporters in the world, are facing severe drought conditions that are severely threatening this year’s rice crops and global rice supplies. Rice is one of the key “staple foods” in eastern nations, so a serious disruption in the supply of [...]
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While many world leaders have been wringing their hands about global warming, the truth is that the global deep freeze now ravaging North America, Europe and Asia is the biggest problem for agriculture right now. In fact, many analysts are now predicting that agricultural losses due to the unusually cold winter will lead to huge spikes in [...] Doesn’t it seem as though there are more crop diseases than ever popping up in 2009? The latest crisis is a disease known as “late blight”, and it is absolutely devastating tomato and potato plants in the eastern half of the United States. As if tomatoes were not expensive enough already….. Most Americans have never even heard [...] Will a wheat rust that the vast majority of Americans have never heard of lead to a catastrophic global famine? Agricultural scientists now fear that Ug99, a devastating wheat fungus also known as stem rust, could wipe out over 80 percent of the world’s wheat crop as it spreads from Africa all across the globe. [...] Most Americans laugh at the idea of building up an emergency food supply. But let us consider what happened in 2008 when food prices spiked and millions were suddenly facing an unexpected food shortage. The following articles are from last summer during the height of the food riots around the world, and they illustrate what could [...] Have you heard of the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009? The title sounds wonderful. It sounds like it means that we are going to have safer food. But that is not what this bill is about. The truth is that is the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 is passed, it will likely mean the [...] Do you know what you are eating? Most Americans simply do not understand that the FDA actually allows rat excrement, maggots and insect heads to be put into their food. The FDA only allows a small amount of these things, but they do explicitly allow them. You don’t believe this? Well, you can read it for yourself. The FDA has published [...] Do you think that the FDA is actually trying to protect the safety of your food supply? Think again. The FDA has officially announced that it WILL NOT require warning labels on food that is produced from genetically modified animals. So now you will never even know if the food that you are buying or eating comes from a genetically engineered [...] |
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