I have started to hear the news speak on this while I felt it was coming myself. But thiis soon. Now if climate change does the same wow...... We will be in a hurt all across the world. And people fight for food.

'We have never been less secure' about wheat
The Associated Press
Published Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 1:17 p.m. CDT
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The world has "never been less secure" about the near-term future of wheat, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Edward Schafer told food aid groups Wednesday.

CJOnline - 'We have never been less secure' about wheat

Schafer told the International Food Aid Conference meeting here that global wheat stocks are at historic 30-year lows and U.S. wheat stocks are at 60-year lows. Against that background, the highly virulent African stem rust is quickly spreading to places such as Uganda, Ethiopia, Yemen, India, Pakistan and now Iran.

"With over 75 percent of U.S. wheat acres planted to varieties that are highly susceptible to this disease, the threat here at home is real and it is urgent," he said.

The disease, which is carried by wind spores, would be devastating to global food supplies if it affects the U.S. wheat crops, now valued at $16 billion.

The United States has shipped wheat breeding lines to east Africa, where work is being done to find a rust-resistant strain and to find new protective measures.

"This is an international science partnership at its best in the face of crisis that threatens most of the world's food," Schafer told about 700 conference attendees from 25 countries meeting in the heart of this nation's breadbasket.

Food aid groups from around the world have been meeting here to discuss finding solutions to soaring commodity and fuel prices that have slashed the amount of food they can buy to feed the world's most impoverished regions. Changing climate patterns that have spawned crop failures and growing competition from biofuels have come together to create what experts here are calling "a perfect storm" that has spawned a world hunger crisis.

It is in this context that Schafer told food aid groups that he has not yet decided on whether to allow the early release without penalty of acres enrolled in the federal Conservation Reserve Program, which pays farmers to take acres out of production.

A decision on early release CRP acres for the 2009 crop year — when the contracts on 4.5 million acres expire — would not be made until August or September, he said. The agency had earlier refused to allow early release of acres without penalty for the 2008 crop year, when 1 million acres came out of CRP enrollment.

The conference also comes amid negotiations over the federal Farm Bill, which expires on Friday. Schafer said the Bush administration would support extending the deadline by a week or two only if real progress was being made. Otherwise, the administration would prefer an extension of a year so that farmers could better plan their crop year, Schafer said.

The administration is also pushing a proposal to designate 25 percent of the food aid from the United States for cash purchases in other countries, rather than shipping only U.S.-grown commodities.

It is also pushing for an additional $350 million for food aid appropriations beyond the $200 million released from the humanitarian trust this week to meet a growing hunger crisis that has led to food riots in several countries.

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Now, go look up the term newspeak in George Orwell's famous book 1984.

The environmentalists are to blame for the food shortage because they insist on pursuing this biofuels nonsense. We need to grow food to feed humans, not to manufacture fuel for cars.

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"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

While were at it lets cut down the rain forests so we can have even more mcDonald burgers, and lets destroy the ozone layer and increase carbon levels so that we can raise world water levels and increase desertification.

Food shortages are a result of pollution. Thereby We need to start looking to Bio-Fuels now to pay off our carbon death if we dont more and more famines will follow.

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NO PASERÁN!!

"We learned a long time ago that we should never subject ourselves to the schedules of the powerful. We had to follow our own calendar and impose it on those above.” - Subcommandante Marcos

How about we stay away from McDonalds. The rain forests are in third world countries: if you object to the rain forests being cut down, tell these third world countries they're going to have to do without food since they don't have enough farmland to grow enough crops or raise enough cattle to feed their people.

No, food shortages are the result of not growing enough food and the result of corrupt governments. Did you know that here in America some farmers are actually paid not to grow crops? And no, we don't need biofuels, at least not biofuels from corn (ethanol, which is more polluting to produce than producing oil). Find some plant that humans don't eat and make biofuels from it.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Right now we are having a "money shortage". Anybody been grocery shopping lately? Dam.

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We can all thank Al Gore for this. Hurray for liberal environmentalism!!!

This "argument", one can even call it such. Is so nonsensical its not even funny. Food shortages are a result of pollution, so we need to remove more of the food supply, so that some unidentifiable time in the future we might have cleaned of the earth enough so that we can go back to not using biofuels.

Never mind that producing certain biofuels (ethanol) actually causes more pollution than the evil fossil fuels the biofuels are supposed to replace.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Bullsht. Any real environmentalist worth his hemp pants and his prius knows that corn based ethanol is not only bad for the environment, but for humanity.

You can blame fat cats and big farm lobbyists for this one, thank you.

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So, how many environmentalists are actually worth their hemp pants and prius and how many of them, as opposed to lefty liberal so-called environmentalists, were actually involved in pushing this policy? I doubt very many. In fact, I doubt that very many real environmentalists are having much influence on American public policy.

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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.

"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."

The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.

"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."