AP story, datelined out of Mexico City. Headline :
“From Rice in Peru to Miso in Japan, Food Prices are Skyrocketing.” It all comes back to oil and biofuels.
Oil is the fuel of the engine of freedom and democracy, and there are people attempting to change that, to put biofuels in the mix. Then, of course, you have people, “No blood for oil! No blood for oil!” We’ve got people dying because of the price of oil. We’ve got people dying because of the price of biofuels, and primarily we got people dying because they’re starving in certain parts of the world because the cost of food is skyrocketing worldwide because we’re monkeying around with biofuels and other things which are raising the costs of energy!
“If you’re seeing your grocery bill go up, you’re not alone. From subsistence farmers eating rice in Ecuador to gourmets feasting on escargot in France, consumers worldwide face rising food prices in what analysts call a perfect storm of conditions. Freak weather is a factor. But so are dramatic changes in the global economy, including higher oil prices, lower food reserves and growing consumer demand in China and India,” and biofuels, by the way.
The fuel of the engine of freedom, oil — and its availability, the free flow of oil at market forces — is crucial to the survivability and the workings of a free market and the people who are impacted and affected by it. And anything that artificially raises the price of energy and oil, whether it’s intentioned well or not, is going to cause havoc, and this is beginning to happen.
“The world’s poorest nations still harbor the greatest hunger risk,” which stands to reason. “Clashes over bread in Egypt killed at least two people last week,” they had riots over bread in Egypt, “and similar food riots broke out in Burkina Faso, Cameroon earlier this month. But food protests now crop up even in Italy. And while the price of spaghetti has doubled in Haiti, the cost of miso is packing a hit in Japan.”
“‘It’s not likely that prices will go back to as low as we’re used to,’ said Abdolreza Abbassian, economist and secretary of the Intergovernmental Group for Grains for the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). ‘Currently if you’re in Haiti, unless the government is subsidizing consumers, consumers have no choice but to cut consumption. It’s a very brutal scenario, but that’s what it is.’ No one knows that better than Eugene Thermilon, 30, a Haitian day laborer who can no longer afford pasta to feed his wife and four children since the price nearly doubled to the local equivalent of US$0.57 a bag. Their only meal on a recent day was two cans of corn grits. … Their hunger has had a ripple effect. Haitian food vendor Fabiola Duran Estime, 31, has lost so many customers … that she had to pull her daughter, Fyva, out of kindergarten because she can’t afford the US$20 monthly tuition. … In the long term, prices are expected to stabilize. Farmers will grow more grain for both fuel and food and eventually bring prices down. Already this is happening with wheat, with more crops to be planted in the US, Canada and Europe in the coming year.
“However, consumers still face at least 10 years,” it says here, “of more expensive food… Among the driving forces are petroleum prices, which increase the cost of everything from fertilizers to transport to food processing. Rising demand for meat and dairy in rapidly developing countries such as China and India is sending up the cost of grain, used for cattle feed, as is the demand for raw materials to make biofuels.” — They just casually throw that in as though it is incidental, when I would maintain to you that it is a primary factor here.
“What’s rare is that the spikes are hitting all major foods in most countries at once. Food prices rose 4 percent in the US last year, the highest rise since 1990, and are expected to climb as much again this year, according to the US Department of Agriculture. As of December, 37 countries faced food crises, and 20 had imposed some sort of food-price controls.” It goes on to describe the food riots in Egypt here in the next part of the story; the problems in China that are being encountered here by that developing nation, demanding higher quality food.
So one of the reasons for this, folks, is the global warming hoax, the man-made global warming hoax. Nobody is denying we might be getting warmer, although I’m not even willing to concede that, but the idea that it’s man-made, that means we gotta have bigger government and higher taxes? We all must sacrifice. We all must reduce our lifestyles. We all must give up a little bit to assuage ourselves of our guilt and our sins for engaging in too prosperous a lifestyle that has led to the destruction of our climate. You know the drill, blah, blah, blah.
So, hello, sacrifice! Hello, suffering! Hello, higher food prices! Hello, riots for bread in Egypt and all kinds of other places like China that are experiencing shortages which will lead to food riots. People in poorer countries, their food prices are skyrocketing because the basics — wheat, grain, and corn — are skyrocketing because of their use in fuels. All of this is to somehow eliminate some “carbon footprint” that people are making in order to save the planet. In the meantime, this is going to lead to even more messes and more pollution because people are going to have less resources to clean up the messes that they make.
So we have hunger, we have pain, we have misery. We even have some people starving because of the recognizing price of food, and all of you people out there who think oil is the big culprit that’s destroying the planet, all of this paranoia and all of this gloom and doom over the fact that fossil fuels are destroying the planet.
We now have the impact of all of this panic creating rising prices for oil, biofuels, which is adding to the cost of food as well as fuel. All of this is now leading to not a crisis in the planet, but a crisis in the world’s population — which is fine with the environmentalist nuts, because many of them think the fewer people, the better.
I’m not exaggerating. “We must reduce the human population. We’re putting too much stress on native plants and trees and animals and so forth,” and this is what you get when liberals run amuck with their ideas, the unintended consequences of their supposedly good and well-intentioned ideas.
If you wonder why prices are going up on food at the grocery store, one of the answers that you can honestly give yourself is the panic associated with dealing with the hoax of man-made global warming.
