food prices
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Bad news for wheat and eaters everywhere
Production of wheat -- one of the world’s most important staple crops -- is set to fall by 6 percent for every 1 degree C rise in temperature.
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200 naked Germans buying groceries
When a German store offered $276 in free groceries to anyone willing to shop naked, 250 brave souls dropped trou.
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Food has gotten cheaper — but at what cost?
Americans now spend just under 9 percent of our income on food, about 30 percent less than we did in 1982. But is this a good thing?
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$28 cabbage, $65 chicken, and other insane food prices in Northern Canada
In the farthest-north part of Canada, food is so outrageously expensive that the basic necessities of life are beyond normal people's reach.
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Bumper 2011 Grain Harvest Fails to Rebuild Global Stocks
This post is by Janet Larsen, Director of Research at the Earth Policy Institute. The world’s farmers produced more grain in 2011 than ever before. Estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show the global grain harvest coming in at 2,295 million tons, up 53 million tons from the previous record in 2009. Consumption grew […]
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Ethanol is making crap food more expensive than ever
If you're a fan of Uno's pizza, O'Charley's, White Castle, or, god forbid, P.F. Chang's, you have only our government's stubborn love of ethanol subsidies to blame for the increasing cost of your favorite meals, report the gumshoes at Nation's Restaurant News. If you’re not a fan, though, don’t go celebrating with a delicious home-cooked […]
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Texas toast: State’s drought-crippled ag market has global impact
Lakeview Park, Texas.Photo: dasrooflessCross-posted from Climate Progress. In August, agronomists showed that the historic drought in Texas had caused a stunning $5.3 billion in losses in the agricultural sector. Two months later, even with some rain finally coming to the state, Texas farmers are being crippled by a drought that could stretch beyond next summer. […]
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Why the food movement should occupy Wall Street
Two points in the Declaration of the Occupation of New York City address the food system. While barely scratching the surface, the protesters have provided an important opening for the food movement. Will we seize it?
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Record heat will rob us of peanut butter
Start getting accustomed to nothing and jelly sandwiches, Fluffernothings, and Reese's Nothing Cups. Record temperatures and droughts are projected to drive the price of peanut butter through the roof, with wholesale costs going up by as much as 40 percent, according to the Wall Street Journal.