Igor Delovski Board

[delovski]

Food prices soar in America

"Everyday foods like fruits and vegetables, beef, poultry and cereals are on
the rise. The price of milk is the biggest culprit, with a staggering increase
of 23.2 percent through November."

[delovski]

Nine meals from anarchy - how Britain is facing a very real food crisis

"But that was the expression coined by Lord Cameron of Dillington, a farmer
who was the first head of the Countryside Agency - the quango set up by
Tony Blair in the days when he pretended to care about the countryside - to
describe just how perilous Britain's food supply actually is."

[Ike]

The Physics arXiv Blog - The Cause Of Riots And The Price of Food

"If we don't reverse the current trend in food prices, we've got until August
2013 before social unrest sweeps the planet, say complexity theorists"

[Ike]

slate - Who Killed the Florida Orange?

"I think they killed it themselves, with chemicals. That's a fact, Gunther
said. In my time in Florida, I'd found a more complicated story, but down
here, everyone had their theories, their longing for citrus nirvana, and their
anger at the loss.

They sprayed so much chemicals, the damn grass don't even grow here
anymore--you can quote me, Gunther said. I knew it back in 1990. I said,
'They're sprayin' so much chemicals it's gonna be the end.' And it's the end."