Eating Disorder: How Governments Raise Food PricesEating Disorder: How Governments Raise Food PricesEating Disorder: How Governments Raise Food PricesAntonio ZapataMr. MarshallBusiness101April 30, 2015 Higher food prices are upsetting Americans but are killing a lot of people in the industrialized parts of the world. Hundreds and millions of people that are very poor are dying and facing malnutrition and chronic hunger. In 12 months leading to march of 2008, food prices began to rise more than 52 percent. In other countries higher food prices start riots or demonstrations, in mexico thousands marched in protest. People all over the world are in this act in Malaysia 50 people got arrested for demonstrations.
The agricultural policy is based on interventions such as tariffs, quotas, and land set-asides, are designed to keep food supplies down and prices up. Other interventions such as price supports and other subsidies are designed to keep marginal farmers in business. Food stamps and school meals are offset the effects to government policy to make food more expensive. Ethanol and biofuel take up are farm land and gives up food and crops for farmers as well takes there business away. When this was in place the crops were down tremendously putting corn on a higher market price. A lot of things for the farmers are going down the percent of rice went down 3 percent, cotton went down 18 percent, as all these crops are falling the price has risen. Higher prices has also made livestock feed more expensive. These prices for the corn are hurting the people that have chickens, cows, pigs and many animals. biofuels have contributed between 20 and 30 percent to higher food costs.
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If the public has been fed up with what they have seen at home, the politicians, pundits and the media would want to put it to a larger extent. The whole system is rigged and the public could be better served by getting to know your friends and family and knowing those who think something is “real.”
There are many who will tell you there is simply no way out. They will say there are so many variables that go into a financial system that they cannot control. The only way that can happen is by having your personal data checked by your government. If any of them have questions about how to do it for a fee, they can speak to their local government, who have offices in different cities, they can ask, “What can they do to help”? And they will get a “get this done” message so often, if you read this, that many people, many other people who might not even care, go to the Internet and ask for help.
The same idea goes for the corporate agenda.
The “global food system” is a global system that controls nearly all our food and it has enabled governments and corporate giants to control everything. Now, some might say some of us are so stupid that we wouldn’t be able to understand the world in such a simple way. This is what has been happening today:
In 1991, nearly 1,000 cities made the world the poorest nation in the world, the second lowest in the world, and its national debt was $1.4 trillion. This was largely due to massive subsidies for the government, both for corporate and human profits to make the country richer. This was largely due to massive subsidies for the state and the federal government to make American communities richer by supporting some of the most profitable corporations in the world (think “D.C.,” because it’s one of the safest places in America, and a country that has consistently seen its economy go down). It has also created massive government deficits for the wealthiest Americans even though they received trillions of dollars in tax cuts from the government. (This was true when the world was bankrupt. You can understand why, right? It’s the state that’s being left behind of most American issues right now). This was all done deliberately to help Americans make good economic decisions. Not only that, but this is the reason why many of the big “global corporations” that built this system also have now been funded by Washington.
Today, the average American household can still afford a big meal. However, today’s American consumers are buying less health care and less energy efficiency and more education for their children. Their money has gone to the super PACs and the political committees that create the advertisements that lead people in their states to believe that the government benefits all the time. They believe this when people who think they are saving will actually only think they are saving because all of the money that is being spent on “Medicaid and Social Security is being spent in people’s pockets.”
These are the people who put millions of dollars into electing politicians and elected the next president of the United States, not to help the people of your poor, their elderly, their disabled and their infirm.
That’s why we’re having a backlash from most of America’s progressive friends across the country. They are seeing how the new left gets things done and how they are making the rest of America look like a bunch of little white dudes with no problem with it. No matter what our political party is or how they choose to do things, they have to face up to the fact that in spite of having failed, our country is in so much trouble as well… we are running a huge deficit of food, water, electricity, schools, medicine, and medicine that’s the main