where’s the food?

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I don’t often blog about current news, but the comment about the price of food potentially soaring late this year or early next year struck me, as Ellen White wrote about God’s people should not stock up on food when they see the price rising near the end time.
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Feast or Famine

As Asian governments grapple with too much rain, wheat- growing regions of Europe and Central Asia have the opposite problem.

Wheat has doubled in less than two months as drought slashed the harvest in Russia, the third-largest grower, prompting Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to ban exports yesterday. Dry weather in Kazakhstan, Ukraine and the European Union has also buoyed prices. Rice, a staple for half the world, rallied 9 percent in July, its biggest monthly advance since October.

The UN FAO Food Price Index, which tracks global prices of meat, dairy, cereals, sugar, oils and fats around, rose to 165.5 in July, the highest since February, according to its website.

The surge in wheat prices may fuel another food crisis as early as the fourth quarter this year, as millers seek cheaper substitutes for livestock feeds, sending prices of corn higher, and dragging with it the cost of soybeans, said Franciscus Welirang, chairman of the Flour Mills Association in Indonesia, Asia’s biggest importer of wheat.

Another global food crisis “is what we worry about in the fourth quarter or first quarter of next year,” Welirang said.

edited 2011/3/4 to include quote by Ellen White, God’s messenger:
Broadside #2 1849/01/31 – To Those who are receiving the seal of the living God
For two years past, the Lord has shown me in vision, repeatedly, that it is contrary to the Bible to make any provision for our temporal wants in the time of trouble.

I saw that if the saints have food laid up by them, or in the fields, in the time of trouble when sword, famine, and pestilence are in the land, it will be taken from them by violent hands and strangers would reap their fields. Then will be the time for us to trust wholly in God, and he will sustain us. I saw that our bread and water would be sure at that time, and we should not lack, or suffer hunger.–The Lord has shown me that some of his children would fear when they see the price of food rising, and they would buy food and lay it by for the time of trouble.

Then in a time of need, I saw them go to their food and look at it, and it had bred worms, and was full of living creatures, and not fit for use. About one week since, the Lord showed me in vision, that houses and lands would be of no use in the time of trouble, and in that time they could not be disposed of. I saw it was the will of God that the saints should cut loose from every encumbrance–dispose of their houses and lands before the time of trouble comes, and make a covenant with God by sacrifice. I saw they would sell if they laid their property on the altar and earnestly inquired for duty. Then God will teach them when to dispose of these things. Then they will be free in the time of trouble, and have no clogs to weigh them down.

8 thoughts on “where’s the food?”

  1. daniel

    The August index is at 176. The record of this index which has info since year 2000, is the 191 reached in 2008.
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    “At the current forecast levels, world cereal utilization would slightly exceed production in 2010/11. This will result in a two percent contraction in world ending stocks from their 8-year high opening levels and this, in turn, could lead to a small decline in world cereal stocks-to-use ratio, to 23 percent, still well above the 19.5 percent low level witnessed in the 2007/08 food crisis period.”

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