Poverty and Food Shortages :: Famine World Hunger

There is a serious development that concerns not only hungry people except all of us. Food is go too expensive and food riots be spreading. There were tortilla riots in Mexico when the flattery of grain became unaffordable which can happen again. Most countries have been able to food their own but there is a fear that the millions of the unfed result come across borders to eliminate. If this happens those with food forget battle to keep it from the hungry. Supermarkets give be forced to place armed guards in front of their doors and refrigerators will be padlocked. There are food riots going on at the present time in Haiti where the government was overthrown. Nobody can cry tomorrows costs of grain or rice. Many say it will triple in price in the coming months.Over a million Chinese people are now eating meat products that are grain fed. This is a result of an increase in their standard of living. They suffer very little grain so more than ninety pct of all meat eaten i n China is imported. This is wizard of the causes of the shortage of innovation wide grain. The Chinese people have a right to eat as much meat as they can afford. It would be infatuated to ask them to curb their appetites for the sake of the hungry in other countries. We must(prenominal) look elsewhere for a solution.The rising price of oil is the chief(prenominal) cause of rising grain costs. Harvesters and trucks that use oil have to twisting on added expenses. A loaf of bread cannot be sold for one dollar when it costs two to produce. The hungry must eat but if they cant afford to buy bread who will pay to render them? The best solution is to lower oil prices which will bring big bucks the costs of grain production. This would bring to a halt world wide hunger.There have been many famines where millions have starved to death. The Ukraine suffered a man made famine less than seventy five years past where over a million died of hunger.