food prices soar

It is hard to really watch the current political fight that Obama and Clinton are engaged in. They are not talking about the real issues:

It's food, stupid. It's all about the food. Not Mr. Benjamin, or Bernake, or Hussein, or Ahmenijad.

Good gente, when will the leaders get it? Food.

Someone send me a recipe for some comfort food. I need some comfort food.

read this article:

Food prices soar worldwide
By KATHERINE CORCORAN, The Associated Press

If you’re seeing your grocery bill go up, you’re not alone.

From subsistence farmers eating rice in Ecuador to gourmets feasting on escargot in France, consumers worldwide face rising food prices. Freak weather is a factor. But so are profound changes in the global economy, including higher oil prices, lower food reserves and growing consumer demand in China and India.

The world’s poorest nations still harbor the greatest hunger risk. Clashes over bread in Egypt killed at least two people last week, and similar food riots broke out in Burkina Faso and Cameroon this month.

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in solidarity,
mero cocinero karimi