Michael Snyder: A Food Crisis is Looming

Many Singaporeans have been complaining about rising food prices in the past 2 years and many have put the blame on the government. As is typically Singaporean, we prefer to look for someone else to blame rather than recognise the fact that irrespective of blame, the most urgent thing to do is the protect ourselves and our families by taking steps to ameliorate the effects of more expensive food.

For those who feel that something is not quite right but need a little bit of extra push to get going in terms of preparedness, here's a recent article on the possible global food crisis that we may soon have to face:

In case you haven’t noticed, the world is on the verge of a horrific global food crisis. At some point, this crisis will affect you and your family. It may not be today, and it may not be tomorrow, but it is going to happen. Crazy weather and horrifying natural disasters have played havoc with agricultural production in many areas of the globe over the past couple of years. Meanwhile, the price of oil has begun to skyrocket. The entire global economy is predicated on the ability to use massive amounts of inexpensive oil to cheaply produce food and other goods and transport them over vast distances. Without cheap oil the whole game changes. Topsoil is being depleted at a staggering rate and key aquifers all over the world are being drained at an alarming pace. Global food prices are already at an all-time high and they continue to move up aggressively. So what is going to happen to our world when hundreds of millions more people cannot afford to feed themselves?

The full article can be found here: 20 Signs That a Global Food Crisis is Coming.