Item on Sky News about food

[NorthernRaider]

Sometimes sky is quite informative and tonight it passed on these interesting snippets about food.

Since June the cost of Wheat has risen by 37%
Since June the cost of Maize has risen by 56%

its expected to rise further.

An the food expert being interviewed told Jeff Randall that the famous Eu surpluses known as the Butter Mountain, Wheat Mountain, Wine Lake, Beef mountain etc are no more, they have all been used up and theres nothing in reserve.

Fascinating when you realuise that nearly every large food producer like the US, Canada, Russia, EU, India and Oz are all reporting appalingly poor crops this year, and its reckoned many poor people in third world countries of whom they spend nearly 80% of their available income on food are going to find they cannot afford food at all soon.

I wonder what 4 billion hungry people heading towards the EU and United States looks like ??