Middle Class May Be Subject To Food Rations, Warns UN
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"The warning coincides with a speech by William Lapp, of US-based consultancy Advanced Economic Solutions, who cautioned that rising agricultural raw material prices would translate this year into sharply higher food inflation.

It also parallels a prediction by Don Coxe, a Chicago-based global portfolio strategist for BMO Financial Group who correctly forecast the fall of the dollar and the rise in price of gold and oil years in advance, who last week spoke of a "global food crisis" which will cause the world to enter into, "A period of food shortages and swiftly rising prices," leading to government embargoes."

"U.S. Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, and Canadian Air Force Lt.-Gen. Marc Dumais, commander of Canada Command, have signed a Civil Assistance Plan that allows the military from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation during a civil emergency," reads a Northcom press release."

Vi har ett liknande samarbete inom EU, där ett land assisterar det andra vid en kris/katastrof..!!

Snarare bätre att flytta ut på landet så man slipper slåss med en massa sockerberoende fastfood får när det blir ont om mat på ICA...

odla lite potatis och moröter och skaffa en ko så klarar du dig gott :)

Skadar inte att läsa på om vad det finns i skogarna som går att äta också.. även om det troligen inte blir sån kris här hemma i Sverige.

Får man äga "1" ko?

bara lite frågvis, eftersom jag vet att när vattenhjulet blir för stort/vindkraftverket blir för stort så måste man skatta på den kwh man får ut, (deras term producerar). Eller om potatislandet blir för stort så gäller samma sak.

Vill ni höra om om vad folk inom FN har sagt om mat och att det ska/kan/har använts som krigsmedel så ska ni följa alan watts blurbar, har ger er källorna till det.

Mat är nyckeln för att få alla att hålla sig "på mattan" och inte käfta emot eliten. Speciellt när alla frön blir modifierade och kommer från samma källa tillslut. Då kan alla skördar slås ut riktigt lätt om det skulle behövas.

(Låter som upplägget till nån blockbuster film det här).

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Scientists: Eat More Bugs
U.N. Conference Experts Say High-Protein Creepy-Crawlies Can Fight World Hunger



(AP) Crickets, caterpillars and grubs are high in protein and minerals and could be an important food source during droughts and other emergencies, according to scientists.

"I definitely think they can assist," said German biologist V.B. Meyer-Rochow, who regularly eats insects and wore a T-shirt with a Harlequin longhorn beetle to a U.N.-sponsored conference this month on promoting bugs as a food source.

Three dozen scientists from 15 countries gathered in this northern Thailand city, home to several dozen restaurants serving insects and other bugs. Some of their proposals were more down to earth than others.

A Japanese scientist proposed bug farms on spacecraft to feed astronauts, noting that it would be more practical than raising cows or pigs. Australian, Dutch and American researchers said more restaurants are serving the critters in their countries.

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization estimates 1,400 species of insects and worms are eaten in almost 90 countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Researchers at the conference detailed how crickets and silk worms are eaten in Thailand, grubs and grasshoppers in Africa and ants in South America.

"In certain places with certain cultures with a certain level of acceptance, then insects can very well be seen as part of the solution" to hunger, said Patrick Durst, a Bangkok-based senior forestry officer at the FAO.

The challenge, experts said, is organizing unregulated, small bug food operations in many countries so they can supplement the food that aid agencies provide. The infrastructure to raise, transport and market bugs is almost nonexistent in most countries.

Prof. Arnold van Huis, a tropical entomologist known as "Mr. Edible Insect" in his native Netherlands, blamed a Western bias against eating insects for the failure of aid agencies to incorporate bugs into their mix.

"They are completely biased," van Huis said. "They really have to change. I would urge other donor organizations to take a different attitude toward this ... It's excellent food. It can be sustainable with precautions."

If the technology is available, they could be ground up like a paste and added to the food humans eat.

V.B. Meyer-Rochow
German BiologistThere are questions about the safety of eating bugs and potential dangers from over-harvesting them, said Durst, who became interested in the practice known scientifically as entomophagy during his years working in Bangkok, where crickets and bamboo worms are sold as food by street vendors.

Tina van den Briel, senior nutritionist at the World Food Program, the U.N. agency that provides food in emergencies, expressed doubt that insects can benefit large, vulnerable populations. Most bugs are seasonal and have a short shelf life, she said.

"They can be a very good complement to the diet," said van den Briel, not a conference participant. "But they do not lend themselves to programs like ours where you transport food over long distances and where you have to store food for a few months."

She suggested a more practical benefit might be adding insects to animal feed or crushing them into a meal powder that could be used to make cookies or cakes.

Meyer-Rochow said aid agencies might even find a way to harvest crop-destroying swarms of locusts and crickets.

"These mass outbreaks could be a valuable food source," he said. "If the technology is available, they could be ground up like a paste and added to the food humans eat."

Jag tror nog man får äga en ko, annars är det väl bara att skaffa en till så slipper den känna sig ensamm.. ;)

Att insekter skulle vara nyttigt är väl ingen nyhet? Folk har väl ätit det i alla tiden och många djur lever på dom.
Det finns ju en anledning till att dom är så många och finns i botten på näringskädjan..

Fransmänen äter ju sniglar och kineserna äter också nått "konstigt" jag inte minns nu...

Minns att det fanns en bok på bibloteket när jag gick i grundskolan (2an, 3an eller nått) där det stog om olika isekts-delikateser, men då läste man ju inte utan urkade sig åt bilderna på nån som åt en gräshoppa eller skalbagge....

Kolla i vilken överlevnadsbok som hellst så står det att myrägg är väldigt nyttigt också..

Men jag blir iaf inte specielt hungrig när jag tänker på de..

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Socialism. Du har två kor. En ko måste du ge till din nysvenske granne Mustafa.
Kommunism. Du har två kor, staten tar båda två och säljer mjölken.
Liberalism. Du har två kor, staten tar båda och ger dig mjölken, avfettad.
Klotism. Du har två kor och en tjur.

Jag håller mig till Klotismen isf.

I vilket fall som helst tänker ja inte ge min granne en av dom, kvittar om han heter Alibabba eller Göran, vill han ha en ko får han köpa en kalv av mig sen.