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The Industrial Food System Depends To Its Peril On Cheap Oil

By carolyn, on March 25th, 2012%

With a gallon of gasoline in America now averaging almost $4.00, the topic of oil dependence is timely. Cheap oil and other fossil fuels have helped create the modern American economy, and to a lesser extent, the economies of other industrialized cultures around the world. Big industry totally depends on them. Naturally, this includes the food industry. . . . → Read More: The Industrial Food System Depends To Its Peril On Cheap Oil

20 Reasons You Need To Prepare And Store Food

By carolyn, on April 20th, 2011%

There have been persistent rumors of shortages at some of the biggest suppliers of emergency food in the United States. Mountain House the largest supplier of freeze dried and dehydrated food in the United States is not accepting orders for the next couple of months. . . . → Read More: 20 Reasons You Need To Prepare And Store Food

The Local Food Revolution, By Michael Brownlee

By carolyn, on March 31st, 2011%

A local food revolution is quietly unfolding in our midst right here in Boulder County. It’s a revolution aimed at rebuilding this region’s capacity to feed its own people, to ensure food security and food sovereignty for all. . . . → Read More: The Local Food Revolution, By Michael Brownlee

Boulder Prepares For Hard Times Ahead With “Food Localization,” By Bob Wells

By carolyn, on March 2nd, 2011%

Like so many chirping miner’s canaries, about 400 people met last weekend in a Boulder church and hotel to talk about what might perhaps best be called “collapse preparedness.” The occasion was a conference called “Our Local Economy in Transition: Exploring Food Localization as Economic Development,” organized by Transition Colorado, the local arm of the “Transition Towns” movement. . . . → Read More: Boulder Prepares For Hard Times Ahead With “Food Localization,” By Bob Wells

Food Crisis Coming, By Christopher Wager

By carolyn, on February 22nd, 2011%

ORIGINAL ARTICLE (http://www NULL.digitaljournal NULL.com/article/303897)

Food could soon hold a greater value than gold to many people of the world with rising prices, civil unrest and food products such as corn being converted into fuel. Americans could come to understand what other countries such as Egypt already know.

Regardless what country you live in everyone . . . → Read More: Food Crisis Coming, By Christopher Wager

The Oil-Fired, Grain-Fed Global Food Crisis, By Paul Chefurka

By carolyn, on February 17th, 2011%

ORIGINAL BLOGPOST (http://www NULL.paulchefurka NULL.ca/Oil_fired_grain_fed NULL.html)

In other articles I have made the claim that because of our industrial food system, oil, food and population are inextricably linked. I have also claimed that a contraction in the world oil supply would cause a similar contraction in the world food supply, threatening the human population. . . . → Read More: The Oil-Fired, Grain-Fed Global Food Crisis, By Paul Chefurka

Food Crisis 2011: The Global Food Shortage Has Already Begun

By carolyn, on February 10th, 2011%

ORIGINAL BLOGPOST (http://endoftheamericandream NULL.com/archives/food-crisis-2011-14-disturbing-facts-that-make-you-wonder-if-the-coming-global-food-shortage-has-already-begun)

Will 2011 be the year that we point to as the beginning of the great global food crisis? Food prices are soaring, supplies are very tight and already we have seen some very intense food protests flare up around the globe this year. When people don’t have enough to eat, they . . . → Read More: Food Crisis 2011: The Global Food Shortage Has Already Begun

A Food Manifesto For The Future, By Mark Bittman

By carolyn, on February 2nd, 2011%

For decades, Americans believed that we had the world’s healthiest and safest diet. We worried little about this diet’s effect on the environment or on the lives of the animals (or even the workers) it relies upon. Nor did we worry about its ability to endure — that is, its sustainability. . . . → Read More: A Food Manifesto For The Future, By Mark Bittman

The Era of Cheap Food May Be Drawing To A Close

By carolyn, on January 30th, 2011%

ORIGINAL ARTICLE (http://www NULL.msnbc NULL.msn NULL.com/id/41311106/ns/business-retail/#)

U.S. grain prices should stay unrelentingly high this year, according to a Reuters poll, the latest sign that the era of cheap food has come to an end.

U.S. corn, soybeans and wheat prices — which surged by as much has 50 percent last year and hit their highest . . . → Read More: The Era of Cheap Food May Be Drawing To A Close

World Is One Poor Harvest Away From Chaos, Book Warns, By Lester Brown

By carolyn, on January 27th, 2011%

ORIGINAL ARTICLE (http://www NULL.independent NULL.co NULL.uk/life-style/health-and-families/world-is-one-poor-harvest-from-chaos-new-book-warns-2192127 NULL.html)

Like many environmentalists, Lester Brown is worried.

In his new book “World on the Edge,” released this week, Brown says mankind has pushed civilization to the brink of collapse by bleeding aquifers dry and overplowing land to feed an ever-growing population, while overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide.

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