Rising food prices could drive up rates of hunger

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This week, the U.S. Labor Department announced that raw import grain prices rose 1.4% this past February. That makes an 8.5% increase over the past twelve months. Keystone food commodities like corn, soybeans and wheat have already increased 149% this past decade. FRAC advocates for federal funding of food programs as a way of solving hunger. "If you look at other wealthy societies, mostly European, but also some Asian, they have a vastly different hunger problem than we do," Weill says. "Fewer people in those countries go hungry. The sharing of economic growth and the sharing of affluence lifts a lot of people out of poverty and hunger." I think you makes a very good point of how this nation is wealthy and is capable of feeding everyone but does not know how to distrubute the food or share it with others.

Sepulvado, John. "Rising Food Prices Could Drive up Rates of Hunger - CNN.com." CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News. Web. 17 Mar. 2011.