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Grain shortage and rising food prices: worldwide crisis.

Rising world food prices have sparked Egypt’s government into a struggle to contain a political crisis. Violence has broken out at long subsidized bread lines, and the president is worried about unrest. He has ordered the army to step in.  At least seven people have died, according to police — two who were stabbed when fights broke out between customers waiting [...]

To be or not to be … prepared.

To be prepared or not to be prepared; the choice is yours. While most of today’s headlines cover American Idol or where Britney Spears is in her recovery efforts, there is real news going on that affects thoughts of preparing for ‘something’ in the near future.  If you want to stop at the surface news, [...]

The greatest threats to our food supply.

Exactly what are the greatest threats to our food supply?  Are plagues, flood, disease or fire running rampant on our crops?  Sadly the answer to that is no; no such act of God is the actual threat to our food supply…at least not yet.  It is my humble opinion that we are our own threat to [...]

Genetically engineered foods….

Fact or fiction, truth or scare, there are MANY things that are in question about genetically engineered foods.  Some say it is a safe way to prolong and mass produce foods for the ever growing population of the planet; others dispute the safety of altered genes in products meant to be consumed.  Some people have a [...]

Let’s just start with food recalls.

Almost every day in America and Europe, there is a recall of some type of manufactured food. Is this a new phenomenon or simply that thanks to the web and rss feeds (like the one on this site of FDA recalls) we are now more able to be immediately updated? Either way, the fact that [...]