Archives of Monthly News Updates
for a Time of Transition Food Crisis
September, 2008
- November, 2009
November, 2009
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Food Insecurity in America Skyrockets
Naked Capitalism 11/17
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Study Show Food Stamps Will Feed Half of US Kids
Huffington Post 11/2
August, 2009
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Agronomist reports two reasons famine in US is
likely
Famine in America?
Food Freedom 8/15
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The changing face of
hunger
Hunger Hits Detroit's Middle Class
CNN Money 8/7 This picture by Steve Hargreaves for CNN is not from
Baghdad. It's not in Iraq. It's southeast Detroit
* One in nine Americans are on food stamps US Food Stamps List Tops 34 Million First Time? Forbes 8/6
July, 2009
* 3.5 million US
Children under the age of five are food insecure
Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?
Scientific American 7/1
In the United States, even before the economic crisis that began in 2007 and the rapid rise in food prices in 2008, there were approximately 36 million living in hunger and food insecurity — an incredible 12 percent of the population without secure access to food in the richest country in the world, despite vast food production and ample supplies. Seventeen percent of its children under five years old, some 3.5 million, are estimated to be at high risk of cognitive and developmental damage as a result of inadequate nutrition due to hunger.4 This travesty occurring in the United States pales in comparison to the horrible conditions in the poorer regions of the world.
* Water shortages from drought returning
California's central valley from valley America's richest produce fields
back to desert land
Despair Flows as Fields Go Dry and Unemployment Rises
Los Angeles Times 7/6
June, 2009
* 3.5
million US Children under the age of five are food insecure
One in Six Young Children Live at Risk of
Hunger in 26 U.S. States According to New Feeding America Report
Feeding American 5/6
April, 2009
* Food
panty traffic quadruples in upscale area, mostly due to foreclosures
Not Supposed to Happen Here Los Angeles Times 4/10
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Background on agricultural overshoot and current
food crisis
Unstainable Resource Depletion
Began 10,000 Years Ago
The Oil Drum Re-posted 4/9
March 2009
Tuckers' Food Caravan
stops at hard hit cities
Thousands Line Up for Food Today, 3.10
* Colleges open food banks for struggling students
Students Get Crash Course in Economic USA Today 3/1
February, 2009
* Profile of America's hungry changes
Tough Choices for America's Hungry CNN, 2/02
* Americans are losing the ability to
feed themselves
Corporate
and Government Policies Spark Food Crisis in America
Refreshing News 1/4
December 2009
*As recession deepens, food shoppers scrimp but eating healthy on a budget is not easy
Frugal Families Learn How to Cope with Soaring Food Prices USA Today, 12/2
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Poultry industry in jeopardy
Number One Chicken Producer Files for Chapter 11
USA Today, 12/1
* People could starve next year due to conditions set in place now
The Famine of 2009 Daily Kos, 12/1
November, 2008
* Rising food prices and unemployment drive teachers and
other middle-class workers to food pantries
Ranks of hungry growing USA Today
11/7