"The Hidden Battle for the World Food System"

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Stuffed and Starved: As Food Riots Break Out Across the Globe, Raj Patel Details "The Hidden Battle for the World Food System"

Global food prices have risen dramatically, adding a new level of danger to the crisis of world hunger. In Africa, food riots have swept across the continent, with recent protests in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mauritania and Senegal. In most of West Africa, the price of food has risen by 50 percent—in Sierra Leone, 300 percent. In the United States there has been a 41 percent surge in prices for wheat, corn, rice and other cereals over the past six months. We speak with Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.
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[forgotagain03]

USA uses ethynol? I haven't seen a lick of it. Also SWITCHGRASS PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can make ethynol from swithchgrass, it's more efficient and grows easier. Plus, it's obviously not corn.

[stonerj0e]

Stop burning all the corn up in your gas tank!!!!!!

[dropless2002]

Between 2020 and 2030 only the wealthy will have gas and food readily available.

[Robbob9933]

The problem is a population surplus not a food shortage.

[Robbob9933]

@sudnaidu That was a involuntary tic. It indicates she knows what she is talking about is bullshit.

[Robbob9933]

Raj is absolutely the worst communicator on the planet. All this half starts and stutters (not to be confused with stutterers) indicate he really does not believe in what he is saying. He is constantly self-editing on the fly. Beside that with his CV, he is part of the problem.

[sudnaidu]

Haha, look at his expressions at 2:13 and 2:17 - he really doesn't want it.

[sudnaidu]

1:33 - that's quite a dirty move.

[sudnaidu]

This lady really doesn't want it.

[strasheep]

too many people, not enough oil.

[campgalley]

Biofuels is a GREEN solution. No getting out of that. The blood is on GREEN hands.

More meat eating, nonsense! The meat price index has hardly moved in the last 10 years(ie no sign of change in demand) . New Zealand's meat industry (one of the most productive and efficient meat producers in the world) has not grown to meet 'your' Asian demand and has been in fact in decline.

Biofuels Biofuels.

[neothomist1275]

"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill.... All these dangers are caused by human intervention... The real enemy, then, is humanity itself." -- Club of Rome members Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider in their book "The First Global Revolution"