Most of earth problems revolvs around money and so does this one. There is enugh food for every person on this planet! More than we can eat.The production is the same as it was if not higher . But, we are geting smaler numbers on our paychecks each month.So we can't buy as much as we did. BUT they don't want u to spend less!! U spend the same, if not more ,u just get less... U must ask ur self ,how many tons off food we trow away each day, becouse its out of date.. and what could we do with it.
The price of food will go up, this will cause "Demand Destruction" (i.e. starvation for billions), then when the Demand is back in balance with the reduced post oil Supply, the price will go back to normal.
The human population has simply grown too large. Oil is so important for food commodities now days that the rising price guarantees expensive food. Humans are about to get a serious case of whoopass.
There is a way to eliminate these kinds of stories where All will live Heaven on Earth, for Real. You want to just talk about it, or become a solution = Equal Money. org - Investigate the Solution.
Yup this starvation is totally unnecessary. We create a new monetary system which allows food to be directed where it's needed, not for profit. How can you justify profits while others starve to death? Profit is not even necessary to have a good life when we have a system that is not profit-based, but life-based, where money is valued as life not as debt, and not based on energy which is transient, whereas life is constant and stable. Equal Money dot org <--Investigate the new system for Life
if you think money/profit is the cause of scarcity, how do you explain the 8X multiple in human numbers since th industrial revolution.... 3X in the most recent 'lifetime'. Those trying to starve the poor aren't doing a very good job. Looks more like 'fossil-fueled' super-abundance allowing a population boom, then severe dissapointment when those pesky laws of nature catch up with us (i.e. finite energy stores that don't replenish). Sustainability would feed 2billion if we're lucky
@walter0bz Humans have been bred as cheap labor, and those who gone before live off the following generation, so as the elderly increase, so must the young and as such it continues, necessitated in this crazy system in which you're born in debt and live on the backs of the 'children' to come. Consumption has been pushed for profit by deliberately linking people's ability to get income, to production, such that the option is to overconsume/produce or suffer- an entirely new system is required
IMO ponzi-debt-money 'evolved' as a solution to other desires or to track 'rapid fossil-fueled progress'.. its the system people wanted, so those offering it became powerfull.
I agree stable money would be a benefit.
But I see money as a symptom not a cause.
I'm also fatalistic - where we are is unsolvable by any technological or social means - it will all end in tears. our species is not 'all powerfull'.
@walter0bz There has been much deception along the way at every turn. But yes, the money system is a reflection of who we are and what we've accepted and allowed- and for it to change- we must change. We are the cause, and the money system is the tool that's been utilized to facilitate massive abuse- the masses have been deliberately 'de-educated' to not even comprehend the level of deception that's been done. Total re-education is required, as everything thats been taught was a lie for profit
Making food available for all is not a dream, it is perfectly plausible and all we have to do is simply realize that if money is the problem for food production, distribution- then we create a New Monetary-System that's based upon the value of LIFE wherein money is given to all to have the basics to live by default - that is people not having to strive for a living but get the Right to Live in Dignity through Equal money for ALL.
there is more than enough food for all at this very moment - though apparently not enough money/will to get it where it's needed.
what we need is a new system based on equality as life - the value of life is life - and thus all life should have equal food, equal power, equal rights. this implies a total transformation of our value-system and thus of the human itself.
investigate an equal money system at equalmoney . org
wow, one out of ten people are chronically hungry! Imagine 1 out of 10 of your family members being chronically hungry - wouldn't you make sure your beloved uncle gets fed? Then why are we allowing so many millions of people to starve - just because they aren't your beloved uncle?! Equal food - equal money - everyone on this earth their fair share.
@kristopheraugust Are you brainwashed enough to react on the word "Equal" and automatically associate it with communism? Communism has very little in common with the Equal Money System. Communism is an illusion of Equality that is used to hypnotize the downtrodden into promoting more inequality. Ask yourself, why isn't allowing 40'000 people to starve to death each day regarded as genocide?
Equal money is the way to go indeed! Then this bs would simply not exist. Fuck this profit driven machine that does not value life. It is time for a change, people who want change come and join us!
@kristopheraugust Communism is an illusion of Equality that is used to hypnotize the downtrodden into promoting more inequality. Are you brainwashed enough to react on the word "Equal" and automatically associate it with communism? Communism has very little in common with the Equal Money System. Ask yourself, why isn't allowing 40000 people to starve to death each day regarded as genocide?
@kristopheraugust And 40000 people (20000 of them children) starves to death each day due to speculation on the food market and a system of lack where a few can live a life in dignity just because they have money. Are you interested in a solution or not? Study equalmoney dotorg
What about the Futures Market... you buy up food and prospective food and then hike the price..should the 'City' (worldwide term) be allowed to gamble with food prices..will the 'City' deal with food riots ??? Or is there a hidden futures market for riots..hey Mon-satan-o. . Idea..grow a seed that can never grow again..sterile..and you control world food production within 20/30 years..now there's an idea!
The food price increases are due to: conversion to corn crop, unstable and unusual weather patterns (more like global cooling), export reductions, & increasing population.... But you missed one of the most important - inflationary depression due to government overspending and a devaluation of fiat currencies world wide. Debt is a huge problem, and by printing more dollars, their real value falls. This leads to a rise in fuel prices, extra costs for farmers, and higher ticket food prices.
In many countries including US, the ownership of land is on hands of less people,every 20 year there is 30 to 40% less farmers.When the farms was in the hand of small farmers the price of the food was all time very chip and the farmers very poor,they subsidy the others industries with their imposse government price.Now most of producty farms are in hands of rich and corporation and they dont subsidy nobody,they want profits,and corporations control the government.Thereis no magic only corruption
@tatomuck18 I'm struggling too, but there is always a plate of food for someone who has even less than me. Life shouldn't be about "giving away money". It should be about, all having their basic needs covered. So no one needs to consider "giving away money". Then we can give to each other in another way, like giving yourself as a supportive and assisting fellow man.
Dismantling European tariff system for food means more imports and therefore keeps our farmers out of work - Europe cannot become import dependant especially when it comes to food - there'd be huge political implications. Secondly - food grown locally has more nutrition values. In UK poor diet (lacking fruits and veg) costs society £5bln a year - we need to help the 3rd word - not switch the roles.
The "problem" is not immgrants, thats not what im saying. It is a mixture of things, of which immigration IS 1 part. We made LOTS of money here, and that HAS been sucked away to the East. Thats a simple fact.
But getting rid of immigrants wouldnt solve our problems. In fact, it would put us MORE under the power of the Roalist freemaons.
But while immigrants fight the royalists, they do so often, by attacking us, the normal population, not the actual royalists.
That's not entirely true, a lot of farmers get financial support from their gouvernments. Sugar made of sugar beet for example is cheaper now then sugarcane because of the financial support and because of the trade barriers. If we would import products from those countries and stop subsidising local farmers, far less money would be needed for development aid and we could all benifit.
The biggest thing that sticks out to me, is the lady said over the past 30 years grain prices have remained stable, not too high not too low. In my opinion grain prices have been extremly low! It was getting to the point we farmers could not produce grain without subsidies, at current price levels we can. The price of wheat is $5.10 a bushel currently, I sold wheat for $5.30 in 1996, my dad sold wheat for $6.00 A BUSHEL IN THE70'S. Don't tell me grain is to high!
And listen to all the bull she's talking.... wow, she's been WAY over educated.
Listen love, FOOD is THE cheapest thing ot produce. If we cant produce food, how can we manage to run vast money making empires, like the inland revenue ? police ? prisons ? army ?
How come they cant work out how much food to grow ? If we helped growing coutnries, instead of enslaving them, thye may help to feed us, as we help them.
But all we do is kill... and i say we, but you know i mean our leaders !!!
The reson food prices are going up, is the same as EVERYTHIGN else. Capitalism cannot work, and only feeds the Royals and their folowers, when all is said and done. Their followers are those who speak ot us as though we are dirt, and get away with it. That is anyone from magistrate upwards.
THEY are the poeple who will not suffer, as the rest of us get mugged by more and ore immigrants.
We, the normal white working class need to rid ourselves of either ALL immigrants or ALL aristocracy.
The reason why food prices gone up. Its because of the international monopolization of foods. Also, the depreciating currency of each nation. Especially the collapsing dollars! Why its global? Most countries are using FIAT MONEY. Which is controlled and manipulated by International Banks. Not only that! If average population dont have money. That farmers cannot produced food for them. So much of his produced foods might go abroad in order to get a good net income or that well-developed country!
each country should grow their own food. There is no where on this Earth that food can't be grown, exept maybe at the poles but as we grow our technology we will learn to grow our food even at the poles.
That's not true. There are many places where food grows much better than at other places. This is due to soil content as much as whether. What about countries that exist in deserts, where no vegetation can live? Should they be forced to starve?
They would have to build giant greenhouses, miles long, to make enough food to support themselves. And the costs of even building or running something like that is insane.
And where do you think they get that "stuff" to add to the soil? It's harvested from places with better soil.
Basically, no country can be isolated unless you've got the size of the US or the diversity of land that Japan has.
maybe each continent could do somthing. there has to be an out of the box solution for the problem. I'm sure there are or could be businesses created in each country that could do that. Also, richer countries could donate some funds to the poorer countries to help them out in this. Heck, maybe an influx of new businesses (solving these and other problems) from other countries could help out the world recession.
Really? I'd like to see that. And I have a passport, but no moneys, so I can barely afford travel to and from my college. The only other Country that I've ever been to is Trinidad and Tobago. I guess that would be a lot of advantages... But at the same time, not everyone has access to the resources necessary to build greenhouses.
Ok, I did a little research. Basically, there's two main things at work here:
1) Worldwide monetary inflation. Money is being created faster than goods are being created. This raises prices. This is happening globally, and shouldn't be much of a surprise to anyone (at least in the U.S. where our dollar is plumiting).
2) Government price controls, trade restrictions, or some other government barrier that prevents people from getting what they need.
International agreements prohibiting agricultural subsidies may contribute to the rising food prices since the demand for ethanol drives up food prices. One also has to look at government policy which encourages ethanol production. It is not just market forces at work. No ex post facto law implies that all government actions should be premeditated. It's "think before you act."
Subsidies are just a kind of price floor. The inevitable result of a price floor is a conequent surplus. That is an iron-clad economic law (like 2+2=4). What happens with agriculture, is that the surplus of agricultrual goods gets dumped on international markets dirt cheap (we used to just destroy such crops [New Deal]. We might still destroy some) and this totally undercuts/fucks over other agriculture-based economies. The government shouldn't fuck with the market price/redistribute wealth.
There are forces manipulating the market to their advantage so would not a counterforce be required to bring things back into balance? In the stock market government interfers to an extent in order to stabilize prices and prevent a collapse.
By definition, the only force that can manipulate the market is government. Only the government can inject force into the market. Private individuals can only function on a level of voluntary economic interaction (to do otherwise is illegal). Corporations can however, pay (lobby) the government to use force on their behalf (which is common). Never the less, it is government that provides force/coercion/violence as a service (which should be considered a crime [as it is in private sector]).
Part of it definitely has to do with biofuel; because of this I don't consider this to be too successful of an energy source. I think we need to increase agricultural output both at home and oversees, utilizing modern farming methods and genetically modified crops. The developing world needs to be self-sufficient.
Also, considering that livestock consume 70% of home-grown grain, I think vegetarianism would help in the long run.
the western world has to change consumption on an individual level in order to help with this problem. i work in a restraunt, and it is RIDICULOUS how much food we through out. I feel like i'm going to hell every night i close. because i'm an american and because i'm adding to this problem with my daily habits.
You do not eat at the expense of others. That idea is not economically sound. Rather, governments the world over, prevent free trade and commerce (which includes the production and distribution of food). This is true of every existing government to varying degrees. I can guarantee you that any time food from producer A isn't getting to consumer B (supply isn't meeting demand), it's because there is a group of thugs with guns (usually called a "government") standing in their way.
A few years back us Americans were producing enough food to feed all the starving people. We did not. Whoever is responsible for that is a foul criminal who should be prosecuted and or slapped. Burning corn as fuel is an unethical crime against humanity.
That's simple. The only one's that could possibly be to blame are governments. As far as the market is concerned, hungry mouths are customers. The only thing that would or could posibly prevent food from being produced and distributed whereever demand exists (which is everywhere) are governments. Plain and simple.
I was wondering the same thing. By what standard (gold?) is she determining that price are rising (considering that different countries use different currencies and inflate their supplies at different rates). Ususlly, higher prices like this would mean increased demand/decreased supply, or inflation. She doesn't specify what is going on in terms of supply and demand. Relative to what are prices rising. Price of what? Price of production?
I'd like to know how it was even established that prices were rising. That seems like it'd be extreemely hard to do on a global scale conidering that each government interviens in their respective economy in differnet ways. If we were to talk about the rising gas prices, about 50 different factors enter into the conversation. It gets complicated. You have to look at increased demand, inflation, taxes, prohibitive regulations, profit margins, unions, various governments and cartels, etc...
I'm relatively conservative on the matter, and I don't think she said anything bad at all. She mentioned only that recent draughts and other disasters are "possibly" caused by Global Warming.
Yeah... that was an extremely dubious claim. Even if it were true, I doubt such a connection could be established. At best you could establish correlation, but not causation, and this would require that the multiplicity of other economic factors possibly contributing to a decrease in production could be ruled out (which is generally considered to be impossible in economic science which is based more on logical deduction).
But in all seriousness, I think the way we handle food is ridiculous. I wonder if we can initiate a Fat Tax to help pay for all the starving people in the world... just the US alone could solve this... people exercise so they don't have to pay the tax, they lose weight, they eat less food anyway! It's Brilliant!
Most of earth problems revolvs around money and so does this one. There is enugh food for every person on this planet! More than we can eat.The production is the same as it was if not higher . But, we are geting smaler numbers on our paychecks each month.So we can't buy as much as we did. BUT they don't want u to spend less!! U spend the same, if not more ,u just get less... U must ask ur self ,how many tons off food we trow away each day, becouse its out of date.. and what could we do with it.
guzaneger 2 months ago
@DarkstarNV Please sir! Tell us what the world was like before this?
anythingnew 3 months ago
Death to Monetary system!
anythingnew 3 months ago
Without fossil-fuels, earth will only support 2billon people.
walter0bz 9 months ago
Economics.
The price of food will go up, this will cause "Demand Destruction" (i.e. starvation for billions), then when the Demand is back in balance with the reduced post oil Supply, the price will go back to normal.
walter0bz 9 months ago
The human population has simply grown too large. Oil is so important for food commodities now days that the rising price guarantees expensive food. Humans are about to get a serious case of whoopass.
BlueStateChronicle 9 months ago 4
this isn't even in the news. It must be the first and most important news item till it has been eliminated!!
MartijndeGraaf1001 10 months ago
There is a way to eliminate these kinds of stories where All will live Heaven on Earth, for Real. You want to just talk about it, or become a solution = Equal Money. org - Investigate the Solution.
clk211bu 10 months ago 3
Yup this starvation is totally unnecessary. We create a new monetary system which allows food to be directed where it's needed, not for profit. How can you justify profits while others starve to death? Profit is not even necessary to have a good life when we have a system that is not profit-based, but life-based, where money is valued as life not as debt, and not based on energy which is transient, whereas life is constant and stable. Equal Money dot org <--Investigate the new system for Life
KellyPosey 10 months ago 3
@KellyPosey -
if you think money/profit is the cause of scarcity, how do you explain the 8X multiple in human numbers since th industrial revolution.... 3X in the most recent 'lifetime'. Those trying to starve the poor aren't doing a very good job. Looks more like 'fossil-fueled' super-abundance allowing a population boom, then severe dissapointment when those pesky laws of nature catch up with us (i.e. finite energy stores that don't replenish). Sustainability would feed 2billion if we're lucky
walter0bz 9 months ago
@walter0bz Humans have been bred as cheap labor, and those who gone before live off the following generation, so as the elderly increase, so must the young and as such it continues, necessitated in this crazy system in which you're born in debt and live on the backs of the 'children' to come. Consumption has been pushed for profit by deliberately linking people's ability to get income, to production, such that the option is to overconsume/produce or suffer- an entirely new system is required
KellyPosey 9 months ago
@KellyPosey
- yup.
IMO ponzi-debt-money 'evolved' as a solution to other desires or to track 'rapid fossil-fueled progress'.. its the system people wanted, so those offering it became powerfull.
I agree stable money would be a benefit.
But I see money as a symptom not a cause.
I'm also fatalistic - where we are is unsolvable by any technological or social means - it will all end in tears. our species is not 'all powerfull'.
walter0bz 9 months ago
@walter0bz There has been much deception along the way at every turn. But yes, the money system is a reflection of who we are and what we've accepted and allowed- and for it to change- we must change. We are the cause, and the money system is the tool that's been utilized to facilitate massive abuse- the masses have been deliberately 'de-educated' to not even comprehend the level of deception that's been done. Total re-education is required, as everything thats been taught was a lie for profit
KellyPosey 9 months ago
Making food available for all is not a dream, it is perfectly plausible and all we have to do is simply realize that if money is the problem for food production, distribution- then we create a New Monetary-System that's based upon the value of LIFE wherein money is given to all to have the basics to live by default - that is people not having to strive for a living but get the Right to Live in Dignity through Equal money for ALL.
MarlenLife 10 months ago 6
there is more than enough food for all at this very moment - though apparently not enough money/will to get it where it's needed.
what we need is a new system based on equality as life - the value of life is life - and thus all life should have equal food, equal power, equal rights. this implies a total transformation of our value-system and thus of the human itself.
investigate an equal money system at equalmoney . org
BellaBargilly 10 months ago 5
wow, one out of ten people are chronically hungry! Imagine 1 out of 10 of your family members being chronically hungry - wouldn't you make sure your beloved uncle gets fed? Then why are we allowing so many millions of people to starve - just because they aren't your beloved uncle?! Equal food - equal money - everyone on this earth their fair share.
IngridBloemheuvel 10 months ago 6
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@kristopheraugust Are you brainwashed enough to react on the word "Equal" and automatically associate it with communism? Communism has very little in common with the Equal Money System. Communism is an illusion of Equality that is used to hypnotize the downtrodden into promoting more inequality. Ask yourself, why isn't allowing 40'000 people to starve to death each day regarded as genocide?
LikaPengarForAlla 10 months ago
Equal money is the way to go indeed! Then this bs would simply not exist. Fuck this profit driven machine that does not value life. It is time for a change, people who want change come and join us!
SpamAnn 10 months ago 4
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@kristopheraugust Communism is an illusion of Equality that is used to hypnotize the downtrodden into promoting more inequality. Are you brainwashed enough to react on the word "Equal" and automatically associate it with communism? Communism has very little in common with the Equal Money System. Ask yourself, why isn't allowing 40000 people to starve to death each day regarded as genocide?
NiklasNydahl 10 months ago 3
@kristopheraugust And 40000 people (20000 of them children) starves to death each day due to speculation on the food market and a system of lack where a few can live a life in dignity just because they have money. Are you interested in a solution or not? Study equalmoney dotorg
NiklasNydahl 10 months ago 4
Keiser Report: Monsanto and the Seeds of Evil (E109)..see it on utube
noggin100 11 months ago
What about the Futures Market... you buy up food and prospective food and then hike the price..should the 'City' (worldwide term) be allowed to gamble with food prices..will the 'City' deal with food riots ??? Or is there a hidden futures market for riots..hey Mon-satan-o. . Idea..grow a seed that can never grow again..sterile..and you control world food production within 20/30 years..now there's an idea!
noggin100 11 months ago
The food price increases are due to: conversion to corn crop, unstable and unusual weather patterns (more like global cooling), export reductions, & increasing population.... But you missed one of the most important - inflationary depression due to government overspending and a devaluation of fiat currencies world wide. Debt is a huge problem, and by printing more dollars, their real value falls. This leads to a rise in fuel prices, extra costs for farmers, and higher ticket food prices.
TheSharpenedPen 1 year ago 2
In many countries including US, the ownership of land is on hands of less people,every 20 year there is 30 to 40% less farmers.When the farms was in the hand of small farmers the price of the food was all time very chip and the farmers very poor,they subsidy the others industries with their imposse government price.Now most of producty farms are in hands of rich and corporation and they dont subsidy nobody,they want profits,and corporations control the government.Thereis no magic only corruption
elreciodragon 1 year ago 3
Milf...mmm
xBloodXGusherx 1 year ago
If we stopped feeding the third world, and let them feed themselves instead, there would be no food crisis.
We used to have some of our own food stored for our own use, in case of emergency, but it has all been fed to the third world.
What will our Children do for food when a real crisis hits?
CelticSouthland 1 year ago
Equal Money for All is Equal Life for All
NiklasNydahl 1 year ago 15
An Equal Money system would solve this. Google 'equal money for all'
LikaPengarForAlla 1 year ago 23
I would HATE a "equal money for all"! If that happens, how am I gonna go to other countries and get such incredible cheap bargains?
tatomuck18 1 year ago
im not giving away my money to anyone! Im struggling enough as it is.
tatomuck18 1 year ago 2
@tatomuck18 lol, with an equal money system you GET money - unconditionally. Struggle will be eradicated from this earth. Do the research
LikaPengarForAlla 1 year ago
@tatomuck18 I'm struggling too, but there is always a plate of food for someone who has even less than me. Life shouldn't be about "giving away money". It should be about, all having their basic needs covered. So no one needs to consider "giving away money". Then we can give to each other in another way, like giving yourself as a supportive and assisting fellow man.
SylviaSimoneGerssen 10 months ago 3
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how bout a bang up ur asshole bitchh
jayangli 2 years ago
Dismantling European tariff system for food means more imports and therefore keeps our farmers out of work - Europe cannot become import dependant especially when it comes to food - there'd be huge political implications. Secondly - food grown locally has more nutrition values. In UK poor diet (lacking fruits and veg) costs society £5bln a year - we need to help the 3rd word - not switch the roles.
Support your local farmers ;p
draggie85 2 years ago
@consdel2000:
The "problem" is not immgrants, thats not what im saying. It is a mixture of things, of which immigration IS 1 part. We made LOTS of money here, and that HAS been sucked away to the East. Thats a simple fact.
But getting rid of immigrants wouldnt solve our problems. In fact, it would put us MORE under the power of the Roalist freemaons.
But while immigrants fight the royalists, they do so often, by attacking us, the normal population, not the actual royalists.
So u help THEM !
mikeybrumbrum 2 years ago
Introduce a FAT TAX. Fat people should be punnished for overeating, and the tax used to subsidise the poor and hungry.
davfritz 2 years ago
Do you know what you are talking about? Biofuel has almost nothing to do with that.
tubetib 2 years ago
farmers don't set the price of food they are told the price being paid thats it take it or leave it.
trackerdogs2 2 years ago
That's not entirely true, a lot of farmers get financial support from their gouvernments. Sugar made of sugar beet for example is cheaper now then sugarcane because of the financial support and because of the trade barriers. If we would import products from those countries and stop subsidising local farmers, far less money would be needed for development aid and we could all benifit.
ailidhe 2 years ago
who put this bad thing out there to deceive many with that papers writed by others from NWO
acadennis 2 years ago
The biggest thing that sticks out to me, is the lady said over the past 30 years grain prices have remained stable, not too high not too low. In my opinion grain prices have been extremly low! It was getting to the point we farmers could not produce grain without subsidies, at current price levels we can. The price of wheat is $5.10 a bushel currently, I sold wheat for $5.30 in 1996, my dad sold wheat for $6.00 A BUSHEL IN THE70'S. Don't tell me grain is to high!
farmerdustyt 2 years ago
And listen to all the bull she's talking.... wow, she's been WAY over educated.
Listen love, FOOD is THE cheapest thing ot produce. If we cant produce food, how can we manage to run vast money making empires, like the inland revenue ? police ? prisons ? army ?
How come they cant work out how much food to grow ? If we helped growing coutnries, instead of enslaving them, thye may help to feed us, as we help them.
But all we do is kill... and i say we, but you know i mean our leaders !!!
mikeybrumbrum 3 years ago
The reson food prices are going up, is the same as EVERYTHIGN else. Capitalism cannot work, and only feeds the Royals and their folowers, when all is said and done. Their followers are those who speak ot us as though we are dirt, and get away with it. That is anyone from magistrate upwards.
THEY are the poeple who will not suffer, as the rest of us get mugged by more and ore immigrants.
We, the normal white working class need to rid ourselves of either ALL immigrants or ALL aristocracy.
mikeybrumbrum 3 years ago
The reason why food prices gone up. Its because of the international monopolization of foods. Also, the depreciating currency of each nation. Especially the collapsing dollars! Why its global? Most countries are using FIAT MONEY. Which is controlled and manipulated by International Banks. Not only that! If average population dont have money. That farmers cannot produced food for them. So much of his produced foods might go abroad in order to get a good net income or that well-developed country!
gearzone2611 3 years ago
you forgot the main reason for rising foodprices: speculation on the stock markets. more than 70% is due to that...
foodaggression 3 years ago
we have not seen nothing yet
The GOVERNMENT? See what he cares about you and me.Just pay bills and taxes and keep on living!! Wonderful life.
Freccia6000 3 years ago
It take 30 gallons of water and 20 lbs of grain to make one cheese burger.
wwdhhhh 3 years ago
the u.s. should increase their exporting so the market can lower the food prices to those poor countries.
who is the anchor women? she very sexy..
nacosataniko6 3 years ago
each country should grow their own food. There is no where on this Earth that food can't be grown, exept maybe at the poles but as we grow our technology we will learn to grow our food even at the poles.
podcastbard 3 years ago
That's not true. There are many places where food grows much better than at other places. This is due to soil content as much as whether. What about countries that exist in deserts, where no vegetation can live? Should they be forced to starve?
Ungeniusman 3 years ago
Couldn't they build green houses in the desert? And wereever the soil is poor, couldn't they add stuff to make it good? Gardeners do that here...
podcastbard 3 years ago
They would have to build giant greenhouses, miles long, to make enough food to support themselves. And the costs of even building or running something like that is insane.
And where do you think they get that "stuff" to add to the soil? It's harvested from places with better soil.
Basically, no country can be isolated unless you've got the size of the US or the diversity of land that Japan has.
Ungeniusman 3 years ago
hadn't thought of that.
maybe each continent could do somthing. there has to be an out of the box solution for the problem. I'm sure there are or could be businesses created in each country that could do that. Also, richer countries could donate some funds to the poorer countries to help them out in this. Heck, maybe an influx of new businesses (solving these and other problems) from other countries could help out the world recession.
podcastbard 3 years ago
hahaaa,there are view more countries!!!
and greenhouses is the way to go buddy,
i would suggest to you,get a passport and go traveling,to see whats out there.
make the math for local grown greenhouses ,from jobs you provide,create,to the saving of transportation ....and on and on...
runway1300 3 years ago
Really? I'd like to see that. And I have a passport, but no moneys, so I can barely afford travel to and from my college. The only other Country that I've ever been to is Trinidad and Tobago. I guess that would be a lot of advantages... But at the same time, not everyone has access to the resources necessary to build greenhouses.
Ungeniusman 3 years ago
Ok, I did a little research. Basically, there's two main things at work here:
1) Worldwide monetary inflation. Money is being created faster than goods are being created. This raises prices. This is happening globally, and shouldn't be much of a surprise to anyone (at least in the U.S. where our dollar is plumiting).
2) Government price controls, trade restrictions, or some other government barrier that prevents people from getting what they need.
Those are the two main things.
D4Shawn 3 years ago
Great Show!!!
theDave1956 3 years ago
International agreements prohibiting agricultural subsidies may contribute to the rising food prices since the demand for ethanol drives up food prices. One also has to look at government policy which encourages ethanol production. It is not just market forces at work. No ex post facto law implies that all government actions should be premeditated. It's "think before you act."
httprover 3 years ago
Subsidies are just a kind of price floor. The inevitable result of a price floor is a conequent surplus. That is an iron-clad economic law (like 2+2=4). What happens with agriculture, is that the surplus of agricultrual goods gets dumped on international markets dirt cheap (we used to just destroy such crops [New Deal]. We might still destroy some) and this totally undercuts/fucks over other agriculture-based economies. The government shouldn't fuck with the market price/redistribute wealth.
D4Shawn 3 years ago
There are forces manipulating the market to their advantage so would not a counterforce be required to bring things back into balance? In the stock market government interfers to an extent in order to stabilize prices and prevent a collapse.
httprover 3 years ago
By definition, the only force that can manipulate the market is government. Only the government can inject force into the market. Private individuals can only function on a level of voluntary economic interaction (to do otherwise is illegal). Corporations can however, pay (lobby) the government to use force on their behalf (which is common). Never the less, it is government that provides force/coercion/violence as a service (which should be considered a crime [as it is in private sector]).
D4Shawn 3 years ago
Thanks for the positive words about the episode and great to see all the conversation around this topic! - Andrew
ROCKETBOOM 3 years ago
Excellent vids today, rocketboom.
Part of it definitely has to do with biofuel; because of this I don't consider this to be too successful of an energy source. I think we need to increase agricultural output both at home and oversees, utilizing modern farming methods and genetically modified crops. The developing world needs to be self-sufficient.
Also, considering that livestock consume 70% of home-grown grain, I think vegetarianism would help in the long run.
pyromania152 3 years ago
I'm hungry.
ErtomicV 3 years ago
this channel usually has some kind of comedic edge
which i enjoy but this video is still really great and interesting without it
nice job!
urbanfawn 3 years ago
the western world has to change consumption on an individual level in order to help with this problem. i work in a restraunt, and it is RIDICULOUS how much food we through out. I feel like i'm going to hell every night i close. because i'm an american and because i'm adding to this problem with my daily habits.
johnnytrixter 3 years ago
You do not eat at the expense of others. That idea is not economically sound. Rather, governments the world over, prevent free trade and commerce (which includes the production and distribution of food). This is true of every existing government to varying degrees. I can guarantee you that any time food from producer A isn't getting to consumer B (supply isn't meeting demand), it's because there is a group of thugs with guns (usually called a "government") standing in their way.
D4Shawn 3 years ago
we All must be made aware of this and what we can do about it period
triondan 3 years ago
A few years back us Americans were producing enough food to feed all the starving people. We did not. Whoever is responsible for that is a foul criminal who should be prosecuted and or slapped. Burning corn as fuel is an unethical crime against humanity.
hjeremy2222 3 years ago
That's simple. The only one's that could possibly be to blame are governments. As far as the market is concerned, hungry mouths are customers. The only thing that would or could posibly prevent food from being produced and distributed whereever demand exists (which is everywhere) are governments. Plain and simple.
D4Shawn 3 years ago
some politics are telling porkies.its a case of what benefits the politician by doing this?
misterfisherman 3 years ago
Did you miss "Dollar Devaluation" or is mass media NOT the only one deliberately omitting this fact to keep the people calm?
DStyle86 3 years ago
I was wondering the same thing. By what standard (gold?) is she determining that price are rising (considering that different countries use different currencies and inflate their supplies at different rates). Ususlly, higher prices like this would mean increased demand/decreased supply, or inflation. She doesn't specify what is going on in terms of supply and demand. Relative to what are prices rising. Price of what? Price of production?
D4Shawn 3 years ago
I'd like to know how it was even established that prices were rising. That seems like it'd be extreemely hard to do on a global scale conidering that each government interviens in their respective economy in differnet ways. If we were to talk about the rising gas prices, about 50 different factors enter into the conversation. It gets complicated. You have to look at increased demand, inflation, taxes, prohibitive regulations, profit margins, unions, various governments and cartels, etc...
D4Shawn 3 years ago
Just listening gave me a strong appetite.
SonomaDave1 3 years ago
too bad bio flues causes more green house gases then they prevent...
randomfollie 3 years ago
Hearing you recognize "global warming" killed a small piece of me.
MidiPunk 3 years ago
I'm relatively conservative on the matter, and I don't think she said anything bad at all. She mentioned only that recent draughts and other disasters are "possibly" caused by Global Warming.
pyromania152 3 years ago
Yeah... that was an extremely dubious claim. Even if it were true, I doubt such a connection could be established. At best you could establish correlation, but not causation, and this would require that the multiplicity of other economic factors possibly contributing to a decrease in production could be ruled out (which is generally considered to be impossible in economic science which is based more on logical deduction).
D4Shawn 3 years ago
That's more than 10% not less than
Zarbod 3 years ago
tough situation, it could be solved just nobody with power or wealth does enough about it
SabreTooth123 3 years ago
But in all seriousness, I think the way we handle food is ridiculous. I wonder if we can initiate a Fat Tax to help pay for all the starving people in the world... just the US alone could solve this... people exercise so they don't have to pay the tax, they lose weight, they eat less food anyway! It's Brilliant!
psychomelody 3 years ago 3
a fat tax would be awesome actually because that way people would stop eating crappy junk food and they would start exercising
SabreTooth123 3 years ago
Man, this news will really hurt Taco Bell's Fourth Meal campaign....
psychomelody 3 years ago
lol. Yeah, it's really going to hard for me to remain overweight.
Zarbod 3 years ago
w00t first view!
xXKacperXx 3 years ago