A new Cold War is taking shape, around energy and food.

Hello everybody,

OK what I want to talk about today is the global food crisis. If none of you out there have noticed the cost of rice has doubled over the years. The question is why?

Rice is one of the most if not the most essential grain to humans all over the world. Over 60 percent of the world's population relies on rice to feed them.

In Haiti, Egypt, Botswana and places all over the world the population have been rioting and protesting because the once affordable grain of rice is becoming scarce.

With the world depending on Oil we have placed ourselves into a corner. Oil is literally in everything, from the gas in our cars to the plastic bags we get at the grocery store. The oil peak theory of 35 years ago has come true and the world powers are scrambled to stay in power.

With all the oil we as a race are using we have created a chain effect of mayhem. The oil consumption has caused global warming which in turn has raised alarm for alternative energy. The U.S. are promoting their biofuels which uses corn as their main source for these biofuels.

It takes 232kg of corn to produce 50 litres of biofuel for a car.....................that's right, 232 KG!

Its just not efficient, what is worse is that the corn fields are replacing rice fields all over the world starving people to death just so we can drive our SUV's. It has already started in the poorest nations on earth and trust me it will catch up with us in the privileged world.

The world in turn needs more space for farm land so forests all over the world are being cut down to make more room for the growing population and energy consumption.

A new Cold War is taking shape, around energy and food.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2008/04/14/ccview114.xml