Eaten In One Week Around The World
What Is Eaten In One Week Around The World
HT: Approaching North
Comment: Photo essay. Photos from Hungry Planet: What the World Eats .
Since I am not that involved in the grocery / cooking side of our household (that's an understatement), I'm not sure what the Peet family spends on groceries per week.
Maybe it's a good thing you don't know what it is now because it doesn't sound like food prices are going down.
ReplyDelete"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans who dug deeper into their pockets for groceries last year will face sticker shock again this year when shopping for food, experts said on Thursday.
“There’s going to be real food inflation in this country,” C. Larry Pope, president and chief executive of U.S. beef processor Smithfield Foods Inc., said at the U.S. Agriculture Department’s annual outlook conference.
Prices of grain futures have surged lately. For example, wheat futures have more than doubled on the Chicago Board of Trade over the last 12 months. Pope said meat shoppers eventually will pay for the rally because farmers who raise livestock cannot absorb the sharp escalation in feed costs."
Or how about this:
ReplyDeleteFebruary 25th, 2008
The UN is warning of a food shortage crisis and drawing up plans for food rations which will hit even middle-class suburban populations as inflation and economic uncertainty causes the prices of staple food commodities to skyrocket.
The United Nation's World Food Programme cautions today that if it doesn't receive more funding, it will have to halt food aid to developing countries like Mexico and China.
"The WFP crisis talks come as the body sees the emergence of a “new area of hunger” in developing countries where even middle-class, urban people are being “priced out of the food market” because of rising food prices," reports the Financial Times.
That's all fine and has its place. But during a food riot you won't see me getting relief from any of these churches that use praise songs instead of hymns. We need to uphold our standards!