The future looks bleak for millions on the edge of starvation

[sweeps]

The world is experiencing a food crisis like it's never seen before. Over the past three years food prices have doubled. Now, as the price of wheat and rice soar, some nations have halted exports.

The World Food Program, the world's largest humanitarian agency, released last month an alert, or "extraordinary emergency appeal," for $500 million, saying the money is needed by May 1 to avoid cutting rations to some of the world's most impoverished regions.

World's food crisis deepens

[rob62521]

This article is written more to tell about other countries, but I think rich America is still seeing this. We have many working poor as well as just poor who are struggling to buy food and pay other bills, not to mention some of the elderly who have, for a long time, struggled to buy meds and food and do without one or the other.

Our local Aldi seems busier as gas prices climb.

[FrugalFish]

I had heard the other day that food banks and soup kitchens here in the US are not getting the donated food supplies that they depend on. They are having to turn people away empty handed.

[rob62521]

We have a local kitchen that serves lunch seven days a week. They have seen an increase of people coming in for meals and are ahead of where they were this time last year. The saddest fact was 29% who ate there said that was their only meal for the day.