Food Crisis
Alex Madriz
English com II
October, 8. 2008
Food crisis
As gas prices climb and inflation rises, our country suffers the consequences. Prices of groceries are increasing and our pocket books are staying the same. Our population is climbing faster than it has ever has before, and as a result, the supply of food is lessening and the demand for food has skyrocketed. Starvation, natural disasters and inflation are just a few of the problems facing people in Haiti, a densely populated city in the Caribbean. We need to take a closer look at the effects of food crisis and how it has frighteningly brought anger and starvation to Haiti’s society. If food prices do not go down, the world might once again watch one of the poorest cities be reduced to one of the most violent.
Corn has become an increasingly popular cash crop. Demand for corn used to be very low because farmers would only sell it for consumption purposes. Technology has changed this resource into something more. Because of the invention of ethanol, which requires corn for production, the demand for corn has reached an all time high. We may not realize it, but corn is used in millions of products, and many depend on this valuable resource for survival. For example, the city of Haiti is very poor, and food is hard to get a hold of. Corn was one of the inexpensive ways to feed families for those with a very low income. Technology has caused corn to be used as a fuel (ethanol) which is good energy independence, but with a big trade off. Besides putting corn in hungry mouths, farmers are putting it in hungry engines. Since humans are starting to consume large amounts of ethanol, the demand of corn is affecting countries like these all around the world. Consequently ethanol has turn corn into a very expensive food and as a result, many people around the globe are unable to feed their...
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