http://www.one.org/blog/2008/04/14/rising-food-prices-continued-impact/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:15:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.one.org/blog/2008/04/14/rising-food-prices-continued-impact/#comment-537855 William H. Bassett Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:40:35 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/2008/04/14/rising-food-prices-continued-impact/#comment-537855 From the number of urgent solicitations I receive every week I would direct the world's attention to the problem of hunger that exists in the continental United States on Indian Reservations across this country. This is one more continuing national disgrace, as is the failure to impeach a President who has failed in his Constitutional duty in this and so many other ways! From the number of urgent solicitations I receive every week I would direct the world’s attention to the problem of hunger that exists in the continental United States on Indian Reservations across this country. This is one more continuing national disgrace, as is the failure to impeach a President who has failed in his Constitutional duty in this and so many other ways!

]]> http://www.one.org/blog/2008/04/14/rising-food-prices-continued-impact/#comment-537725 Nancy Bauer Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:29:09 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/2008/04/14/rising-food-prices-continued-impact/#comment-537725 Riots in Argentina, the collapse of the Haitian government - all because people can't afford food. I talked with my mom today and she mentioned that, as a senior citizen in the US, she is seeing such a steep rise in overall prices that her budget is becoming more limited than it is. We live in the 21st century, we have such great minds to create solutions to problems, why can't we figure this out? How can someone starve to death when Americans throw away millions of dollars of agricultural products daily? My Development Economics professor used to always tell us that "we know what has to happen to create growth?" I always had to ask him, then why don't we? Riots in Argentina, the collapse of the Haitian government – all because people can’t afford food. I talked with my mom today and she mentioned that, as a senior citizen in the US, she is seeing such a steep rise in overall prices that her budget is becoming more limited than it is. We live in the 21st century, we have such great minds to create solutions to problems, why can’t we figure this out? How can someone starve to death when Americans throw away millions of dollars of agricultural products daily? My Development Economics professor used to always tell us that “we know what has to happen to create growth?” I always had to ask him, then why don’t we?

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