Austin American Statesman, Editorial
23 April, 2008
Rising food prices and a shortage of staple foods like rice and wheat.
Austinites, like other American, are feeling the pain of higher prices as costs for most food items, not just rice and milk, rise. But few people in this country and other wealthy nations are starving because they can’t get or afford enough food to live on.
But in poor countries from Haiti to Zimbabwe to Bangladesh, food scarcity is fueling riots and death. Political stability is threatened, too, because a hungry nation is by definition...
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