Food Crisis 2011? 14 Disturbing Facts That Make You Wonder If The Coming Global Food Shortage Has Already Begun



Will 2011 be the year that we point to as the beginning of the great global food crisis? Food prices are soaring, supplies are very tight and already we have seen some very intense food protests flare up around the globe this year. When people don’t have enough to eat, they tend to become very desperate, and unfortunately it looks like the global food situation is not going to improve much any time soon. Right now the world is really struggling to feed itself, and with each passing day there are even more mouths to feed. It is being projected that the population of the world will reach 9 billion people by the year 2050. There are already way too many people starving to death around the globe, and unfortunately starvation is only going to become more rampant as food supplies get even tighter. Some of the key food producing provinces in China are facing their worst drought in 200 years. Flooding has absolutely devastated agricultural production in Australia and Brazil this winter. Russia is still trying to recover from the horrific drought of last summer. Global weather patterns have gone haywire over the past 12 months, and this is putting immense pressure on a global food system that was already on the verge of a major breakdown.

Food stockpiles all over the world are disturbingly low at this point. If a major global famine broke out not even the United States would be able to last for long. The U.S. government is supposed to be keeping a lot of food stockpiled in the event of an emergency, but that is just not happening.

Right now a desperate scramble for food is beginning. Quite a few nations that used to be huge food exporters are now importing a lot of their food. Prices for staples such as wheat, corn and soybeans are absolutely soaring, and the UN is projecting that they will continue to rise rapidly throughout 2011.

Unless something dramatically changes, the global food situation is only going to get tighter and tighter and tighter as this decade rolls along.

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Kelee:
Could they be hoarding the corn and not really using it for ethanol....

I don't think so, Tyger. Here in Central California, we have a new biodiesel plant. Each year, it seems that more and more orchards and vineyards and being torn out and planted in corn. Right now, that new plant is going non-stop since the corn is ripe. Most farmers will get in one more corn harvest before winter. Although, it's a wierd year. This harvest seems later than normal. I have no idea if the new corn crops and plant are gov't subsidized but I'm guessing that they are. :( I also know that the plant, which can be seen right off of Highway 99, near Keyes, California, seems to be either on or off. Depending on the season, it is either booming with activity or silent.

I'm not saying that corn hoarding isn't going on, but I do know that in our area, there seems to be a substantial increase in corn fields and I'm guessing that the new bio-diesel plant is the explanation.

Corn feed for our poultry has increased every month for the past 6 months. Many small farmers are selling their animals.

I gave my 11 hens and 1 rooster to a family that needed help with food, they have 5 children. They were very happy, as they have a farmer next to them that said they could come and get the grain sweepings and spill overs to help feed them over the winter. My feed prices were going up so much and I was giving my surplus eggs to them anyway. So now I just buy my 3 dozen a month from them for $5 instead of me paying $12 a month for feed, but who knows what feed will be over the winter months, so this worked out as a win win for us.