It is the new face of hunger. A perfect storm of food scarcity, global warming, rocketing oil prices and the world population explosion is plunging humanity into the biggest crisis of the 21st century by pushing up food prices and spreading hunger and poverty from rural areas into cities.
And for the first time in history, say experts, the impact is spreading from the developing to the developed world.
The increasing scarcity of food is the biggest crisis looming for the world, according to WFP officials.
2008: The year of global food crisis
By Kate Smith and Rob Edwards
Sunday Herald 19 July 08
Recently a study was done by a research institute in melbourne headed by Simon Stewart that gave the findings that Australians are now the world's most overweight nation, ahead of the notoriously super-sized Americans, who have a 25 per cent obesity rate.
Simon Stewart: Well we actually found that currently there are nine million obese and overweight Australians, and that's adult Australians. Of those, four million are technically obese.
We certainly have a phenomenon that I would term "fat fatigue", and we would certainly have a phenomenon where I think we have recalibrated our eyes to accept that we're larger and thinking that's normal.
This is taken from a transcript
from The World Today on abc radio
Friday, 20 June , 2008
Reporter: Sabra Lane
2 comments:
Food is becoming EXPENSIVE!
how is it that people in todays world can actually be without food? When is enough, enough? Emma you see some pretty neat stuff that I think about too. For some reason the world in general well societies as a whole are something that I dont get. How can we be so smart but act so ignorantly. How can we have so much and destribute so little?
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