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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
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One reason food prices rise is limited resources. When resources are limited, prices rise because it takes more time and labor to produce food. Weather plays a crucial role in the production of food. When crops are destroyed due to severe weather, there is less food in production. Producers have to double the amount of work and time to sustain the crops that survived. Also, the demand for more food when there are limited resources is a factor. Generally, the population have unlimited wants while there are limited resources. Food prices will increase due to the unlimited wants of the population. Food is also used to produce gas and oil. When corn, for example, is destroyed because of severe weather, gas prices will increase. The availability of food has an effect on more than just consumption. When prices rise, people will buy less food, availability of food will be limited, and workers will be laid off. The rise of prices have an effect on multiple things. _____kevaris doughty
Food prices can rise depending on the demand of that product.ussualy when is a new product to the industri and people are buying big ammounts of this products then manufacturs can take advantage and rise their prices.also another reason for the food product rise can depend on the resorces if this product is hard to find and needs to be inported from some others countries this can affect the price of this product. where I believe that this countries should make an eseption when it comes to poor countrier because in reality most of the people are not responsible for the goverments decisions or event some times is not even the goverment but the land that is unfertil to grow some products that are "a most" for nutrition also when an unexpected event happen ex the oil spill that we experience not too long ago.
It’s a dog eat dog world. I believe that the rise of prices in food has a lot to do with the Nation and the amount consumed by it. For example in the United States, we have different types of consumer. The McDonalds eater or the Whole Food eater. We are a society that can make a choice on what we want to eat. Everyone makes that choice when they choose what kind of lifestyle they would like to lead. But yet it is reasonable for prices to go up either in McDonalds or Wholefoods depending on how much it cost to manufacture the food. The more labor the more it will cost and I believe most people are aware of that. Agricultures’ don’t have the fault on why sometimes we have floods or why sometimes we have droughts. That is Mother Nature at its best. When a case of potatoes doesn’t grow the way it’s supposed to it makes for big companies to start using more labor and get the case of potatoes that they were expecting to sell, that of course makes it more expensive. Also in sub-Saharan Africa where people “ eat nine times less than what we normally eat in America!” people are trained and they bodies are acostummed to that lifestyle since they have never seen any better and they’re only choice is that lifestyle of eating. –Valerie Chang
High food prices is becoming a severe food crisis worldwide, scaling across the world from Africa to Central America. As the world’s population increases, there will be a greater demand for food. The countries that are in low supply of food may risk having to live without food for days and for others, possibly famine. Leaving children in a higher risk of malnutrition, many in starvation and also incapable to supply health needs. Since the rise, 44 million people are in extreme poverty and even more have died. In the same manner, The United States can potential face food shortage and fuel, consequently, has been seen to show an increase in food prices as well as the gas prices that has been said to already exceed its limit. However, there is a way we can reverse this matter, through research I’ve discovered a simply, but effective way to decrease the risk of further food shortages where food can be supplied continuously. In the home, more especially in our own back yard. In fact, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt encouraged American families to start edible gardens in backyards and unused empty lots. By the end of the war, these Victory Gardens were supplying 40 percent of U.S. produce. And I believe United States should do the same, which will not only change our perspective of human survival and unity, but will have an impact that can save lives worldwide.
Food, in a sense is one of the necessary reasons people are still alive today. However, people could eat less food and still survive but where’s the fun in that. Food prices rise because the demand for it is so strong. People are greedy; they want more than they could chew and then even more than that. In order to sustain the constant hunger growth of people’s bellies, the cost of food must always rise in order to be able to produce more. Take the fast food restaurant industries for example; a cheese burger, some fries, and a drink used to cost no more than 3 bucks and people were actually satisfied. Now that same meal had to double in size because the average person eats as if they are having their very last meal on earth. Thus, with the doubled size of meals the prices have to be doubled just to be able to pay for everything involved in making that meal. In a sense, food is just like technology, no matter how much of it is out there in the world, society still wants more. --Brandis McGlond
I think that this is horrible for many nations everywhere. With so much that has been going on in the world such as natural disasters and now recently the earthquake that hit Sendai Japan things are looking grim with respect to food production since many farms have been destroyed along with people and houses. I feel sorry for all those nations that have had to suffer so much over droughts, and flooding as well. They do not deserve what is happening to them, especially not the poor innocent children who are starving to death in underdeveloped countries. There is too much scarcity going on in the world which makes things even more difficult to cope with. A solution is for as many nations to get together and work together by helping each other and importing and exporting with each other using their comparative advantage, which is the food or supplies that they are best fit to produce. We have to work together if we are to solve the problems of the world. Hopefully that will happen in due time and these disasters bring other nations closer to each other to bond with.
I have one word for this post “over population”. I understand that most people would call it a crisis but in my eyes it is our fault. Fact is that the birth rate is decreasing and so is the rate of death. Population is rising, but not with newborns but with older people that need much more than what a newborn will need. It is not the prosperity that’s increasing but instead decreasing, because of the fact that there are no young minds to take over the world. Over population has it all. The decrease in education is being affected, because there are no young minds to grasp the concepts that are little by little emerging. No public health because all that is left is deceases from the older adults that for one may have no cure and are just roaming around the world with it (but then again it will be unethical to per say “kill them” because they are human beings). There may be a lack of food supply, but when you think about it is like a chain. The more people there are the more we exploit nature; the more we destroy nature the worse; the conditions get in order to produce the right amount of sources for survival. To give my honest opinion there is little solution to this big problem. The most reasonable and possible solution would be to moderate all supplies being distributed around the world almost creating a utopia in which everyone has the right amount of everything. On the other hand since thanks to science and all the new inventions humans have been able to last for a longer period of time maybe we should leave it up to science, and cloning to provide enough supplies for all those undeveloped countries. Also well as providing them with a better education in order for them to provide themselves with better solutions and decisions.
The problem that arises from the imbalance of population x consumption x environment can be solved to the means of education. The discussion here is about sustainability, “the potential for long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions” (Wikipedia). What seems to be the highest threat to this system is the increasing overpopulation especially in poor and uneducated world areas. In Bangladesh, for example, second UNICEF, two-third of female adolescent before the age of 18 and 30% before age of 15 are still getting married, and procreating... It is largely demonstrated that “Family Planning”, educating and empowering women, sexual education including contraception methods and abstinence work exceptionally well in lowering birth rates. Since Thomas Malthus, we hear predictions of brutal scarcity in the entire world, but it never happened. I think that we already have a large range of possibilities to solve this problem and all of them pass through education of the people involved, which means, every one of us. Sheila Guisard
We live in a world where unlimited wants and needs exist, but where there is a limited amount of resources. As population increases the more resources need to be produced. There is no way to solve overpopulation without taking away civil liberties so this problem can not be solved and there will always be limited amount of resources, but producing enough resources for people can be achieved. With the right government leading the way, plans can be made for this to be possible. For instance, for the underdeveloped countries, help can be given to them by those countries like America who are able to eat nine times more. Having the right economic plan and someone who is able to push into effect the plan can lead to at least improve the problem. As time goes by I believe we will be able to improve our ways and these problems like not having enough to eat or the cost of food rising will be bettered.
Frustration with high food prices is among the underlying causes of the unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, and a global food crisis may be brewing.As of 2008, the price of grain has increased due to more farming used in biofuels, world oil prices at over $100 a barrel, global population growth,climate change, loss of agricultural land to residential and industrial development,and growing consumer demand in China and India. More attention has to be paid to determining how climate change and natural resource degradation may affect food production and food prices in the future. This will allow governments to act accordingly to prevent damage to the global food supply system. Claudia Socorro
The theory of Malthus: Malthusian defines the reality to which sustainability is competing against. Malthusian is the theory (although not so theorized now with so much evidence) that population increases faster than that of subsistence, thus leading to inadequate supplies of food, goods and the human necessities for survival, or bare minimum at the most. In addition, the only plausible solution according to Malthus is war, famine, and disease. This view of sustainability has been looming among the face of this planet for far too long; it is time for an alternative. Though, I can’t provide one, I believe that the best place to start is by changing the egotistical point of view of many capitalists and corporations alike. The chain effect lead by gas prices all the way down to poverty is dependent on the standings of the countries holding the oil; this chain effect can be slowed down and perhaps redirected to another area of humanity, instead of towards the bottom of the food change.
The world food shortage is due to a variety of problems and issues. The major reason for starving people in low developing countries is because of the uneven distribution of food. People in America have an over abundance of food while people in Africa barely have enough to eat for one meal a day. Essential crops that people in least developed countries rely on are bought up and not even used to feed people but used to feed livestock. Corrupt Governments withhold food from their people and sell it to highly developed countries instead of feeding their own starving citizens. Unless we as a planetary coalition manage our food supply efficiently there will always be countries with a surplus of food and countries with an extreme shortage. Instead of satisfying our greedy hungry needs we should look towards bettering the whole, not only our current population but future generations as well. -Jennifer Vidal
Humans are in so much need of technology that a complete destruction of it will result in the complete destruction of human kind as well; at least 90% of it. All those problems such as global warming, droughts, deforestation, and many others are a result of the use of technology. For example; global warming has been produced by all the gases emissions from cars and industry, which are a necessary condition for the everyday life of people. But as I said before we are in so much need to that technology that we cannot live without it. So in my opinion, there is no way to stop all the destructions and the problems that we are experiencing right now. Stopping them will mean stopping human kind, and because that is never going to happen, humans are going to keep living with those problems until the world decides not to hold human kind anymore.
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One reason food prices rise is limited resources. When resources are limited, prices rise because it takes more time and labor to produce food. Weather plays a crucial role in the production of food. When crops are destroyed due to severe weather, there is less food in production. Producers have to double the amount of work and time to sustain the crops that survived. Also, the demand for more food when there are limited resources is a factor. Generally, the population have unlimited wants while there are limited resources. Food prices will increase due to the unlimited wants of the population. Food is also used to produce gas and oil. When corn, for example, is destroyed because of severe weather, gas prices will increase. The availability of food has an effect on more than just consumption. When prices rise, people will buy less food, availability of food will be limited, and workers will be laid off. The rise of prices have an effect on multiple things.
_____kevaris doughty
Food prices can rise depending on the demand of that product.ussualy when is a new product to the industri and people are buying big ammounts of this products then manufacturs can take advantage and rise their prices.also another reason for the food product rise can depend on the resorces if this product is hard to find and needs to be inported from some others countries this can affect the price of this product. where I believe that this countries should make an eseption when it comes to poor countrier because in reality most of the people are not responsible for the goverments decisions or event some times is not even the goverment but the land that is unfertil to grow some products that are "a most" for nutrition also when an unexpected event happen ex the oil spill that we experience not too long ago.
It’s a dog eat dog world. I believe that the rise of prices in food has a lot to do with the Nation and the amount consumed by it. For example in the United States, we have different types of consumer. The McDonalds eater or the Whole Food eater. We are a society that can make a choice on what we want to eat. Everyone makes that choice when they choose what kind of lifestyle they would like to lead. But yet it is reasonable for prices to go up either in McDonalds or Wholefoods depending on how much it cost to manufacture the food. The more labor the more it will cost and I believe most people are aware of that. Agricultures’ don’t have the fault on why sometimes we have floods or why sometimes we have droughts. That is Mother Nature at its best. When a case of potatoes doesn’t grow the way it’s supposed to it makes for big companies to start using more labor and get the case of potatoes that they were expecting to sell, that of course makes it more expensive. Also in sub-Saharan Africa where people “ eat nine times less than what we normally eat in America!” people are trained and they bodies are acostummed to that lifestyle since they have never seen any better and they’re only choice is that lifestyle of eating. –Valerie Chang
High food prices is becoming a severe food crisis worldwide, scaling across the world from Africa to Central America. As the world’s population increases, there will be a greater demand for food. The countries that are in low supply of food may risk having to live without food for days and for others, possibly famine. Leaving children in a higher risk of malnutrition, many in starvation and also incapable to supply health needs. Since the rise, 44 million people are in extreme poverty and even more have died. In the same manner, The United States can potential face food shortage and fuel, consequently, has been seen to show an increase in food prices as well as the gas prices that has been said to already exceed its limit. However, there is a way we can reverse this matter, through research I’ve discovered a simply, but effective way to decrease the risk of further food shortages where food can be supplied continuously. In the home, more especially in our own back yard. In fact, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt encouraged American families to start edible gardens in backyards and unused empty lots. By the end of the war, these Victory Gardens were supplying 40 percent of U.S. produce. And I believe United States should do the same, which will not only change our perspective of human survival and unity, but will have an impact that can save lives worldwide.
Food, in a sense is one of the necessary reasons people are still alive today. However, people could eat less food and still survive but where’s the fun in that. Food prices rise because the demand for it is so strong. People are greedy; they want more than they could chew and then even more than that. In order to sustain the constant hunger growth of people’s bellies, the cost of food must always rise in order to be able to produce more. Take the fast food restaurant industries for example; a cheese burger, some fries, and a drink used to cost no more than 3 bucks and people were actually satisfied. Now that same meal had to double in size because the average person eats as if they are having their very last meal on earth. Thus, with the doubled size of meals the prices have to be doubled just to be able to pay for everything involved in making that meal. In a sense, food is just like technology, no matter how much of it is out there in the world, society still wants more.
--Brandis McGlond
I think that this is horrible for many nations everywhere. With so much that has been going on in the world such as natural disasters and now recently the earthquake that hit Sendai Japan things are looking grim with respect to food production since many farms have been destroyed along with people and houses. I feel sorry for all those nations that have had to suffer so much over droughts, and flooding as well. They do not deserve what is happening to them, especially not the poor innocent children who are starving to death in underdeveloped countries. There is too much scarcity going on in the world which makes things even more difficult to cope with. A solution is for as many nations to get together and work together by helping each other and importing and exporting with each other using their comparative advantage, which is the food or supplies that they are best fit to produce. We have to work together if we are to solve the problems of the world. Hopefully that will happen in due time and these disasters bring other nations closer to each other to bond with.
Sincerely Yours: Steven Russi ^_^
I have one word for this post “over population”. I understand that most people would call it a crisis but in my eyes it is our fault. Fact is that the birth rate is decreasing and so is the rate of death. Population is rising, but not with newborns but with older people that need much more than what a newborn will need. It is not the prosperity that’s increasing but instead decreasing, because of the fact that there are no young minds to take over the world. Over population has it all. The decrease in education is being affected, because there are no young minds to grasp the concepts that are little by little emerging. No public health because all that is left is deceases from the older adults that for one may have no cure and are just roaming around the world with it (but then again it will be unethical to per say “kill them” because they are human beings). There may be a lack of food supply, but when you think about it is like a chain. The more people there are the more we exploit nature; the more we destroy nature the worse; the conditions get in order to produce the right amount of sources for survival. To give my honest opinion there is little solution to this big problem. The most reasonable and possible solution would be to moderate all supplies being distributed around the world almost creating a utopia in which everyone has the right amount of everything. On the other hand since thanks to science and all the new inventions humans have been able to last for a longer period of time maybe we should leave it up to science, and cloning to provide enough supplies for all those undeveloped countries. Also well as providing them with a better education in order for them to provide themselves with better solutions and decisions.
The problem that arises from the imbalance of population x consumption x environment can be solved to the means of education. The discussion here is about sustainability, “the potential for long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions” (Wikipedia). What seems to be the highest threat to this system is the increasing overpopulation especially in poor and uneducated world areas. In Bangladesh, for example, second UNICEF, two-third of female adolescent before the age of 18 and 30% before age of 15 are still getting married, and procreating... It is largely demonstrated that “Family Planning”, educating and empowering women, sexual education including contraception methods and abstinence work exceptionally well in lowering birth rates. Since Thomas Malthus, we hear predictions of brutal scarcity in the entire world, but it never happened. I think that we already have a large range of possibilities to solve this problem and all of them pass through education of the people involved, which means, every one of us.
Sheila Guisard
We live in a world where unlimited wants and needs exist, but where there is a limited amount of resources. As population increases the more resources need to be produced. There is no way to solve overpopulation without taking away civil liberties so this problem can not be solved and there will always be limited amount of resources, but producing enough resources for people can be achieved. With the right government leading the way, plans can be made for this to be possible. For instance, for the underdeveloped countries, help can be given to them by those countries like America who are able to eat nine times more. Having the right economic plan and someone who is able to push into effect the plan can lead to at least improve the problem. As time goes by I believe we will be able to improve our ways and these problems like not having enough to eat or the cost of food rising will be bettered.
~Pamela Picon
Frustration with high food prices is among the underlying causes of the unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, and a global food crisis may be brewing.As of 2008, the price of grain has increased due to more farming used in biofuels, world oil prices at over $100 a barrel, global population growth,climate change, loss of agricultural land to residential and industrial development,and growing consumer demand in China and India. More attention has to be paid to determining how climate change and natural resource degradation may affect food production and food prices in the future. This will allow governments to act accordingly to prevent damage to the global food supply system.
Claudia Socorro
The theory of Malthus: Malthusian defines the reality to which sustainability is competing against. Malthusian is the theory (although not so theorized now with so much evidence) that population increases faster than that of subsistence, thus leading to inadequate supplies of food, goods and the human necessities for survival, or bare minimum at the most. In addition, the only plausible solution according to Malthus is war, famine, and disease. This view of sustainability has been looming among the face of this planet for far too long; it is time for an alternative. Though, I can’t provide one, I believe that the best place to start is by changing the egotistical point of view of many capitalists and corporations alike. The chain effect lead by gas prices all the way down to poverty is dependent on the standings of the countries holding the oil; this chain effect can be slowed down and perhaps redirected to another area of humanity, instead of towards the bottom of the food change.
-Aaron Le Jeune
The world food shortage is due to a variety of problems and issues. The major reason for starving people in low developing countries is because of the uneven distribution of food. People in America have an over abundance of food while people in Africa barely have enough to eat for one meal a day. Essential crops that people in least developed countries rely on are bought up and not even used to feed people but used to feed livestock. Corrupt Governments withhold food from their people and sell it to highly developed countries instead of feeding their own starving citizens. Unless we as a planetary coalition manage our food supply efficiently there will always be countries with a surplus of food and countries with an extreme shortage. Instead of satisfying our greedy hungry needs we should look towards bettering the whole, not only our current population but future generations as well.
-Jennifer Vidal
Humans are in so much need of technology that a complete destruction of it will result in the complete destruction of human kind as well; at least 90% of it. All those problems such as global warming, droughts, deforestation, and many others are a result of the use of technology. For example; global warming has been produced by all the gases emissions from cars and industry, which are a necessary condition for the everyday life of people. But as I said before we are in so much need to that technology that we cannot live without it. So in my opinion, there is no way to stop all the destructions and the problems that we are experiencing right now. Stopping them will mean stopping human kind, and because that is never going to happen, humans are going to keep living with those problems until the world decides not to hold human kind anymore.
Roy Santamarina
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