Today is St. Joseph's Day a special semi-holiday for Sicilians and it celebrates divine intervention of one of Sicily's famous droughts. Famine was not an unknown word for my ancestors and so we honor those harsh times by eating a meal made from pasta, wild fennel and fava beans -products that were once considered weeds and animal feed. So it is poignant for me to point out on this day that the world's rice supply cannot meet the demand, and the hungry cannot meet the price.
You know the world is in trouble when there isn't enough rice to feed everyone. This article just adds to the mounting signs of trouble in the world now that rice - the staple that feeds more humans than anything else - has tripled in price in the last five years. Regardless of the reasons, be it climate change or just overpopulation, I don't know how we expect to feed a growing world on less and less arable land.
1 comments:
It is really sad that a lot of people have to go hungry while the rest of the world worry about not enough petrol to go around.
Biofuels such as corn and soy that could feed more hungry people instead of cars.
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