20 January 2008

The End Of Cheap Food?

"The food system is entering a period of very significant restructuring, the first since the years after the Second World War. We may look back at the second half of the last century as an era of cheap food. It'll be like the Hundred Years' War, as we were taught it in school: a seminal moment in human history that's gone and will not return."
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Anonymous said...

"The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970's and 1980's hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now."
- Paul Ehrlich in the beginning of his 1968 ``The Population Bomb''

Doomsaying just isn't what it was in my young day. Now you can only predict higher prices at the supermarket.

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