Google information regarding the fact that rivers are drying up all over the world and underground water levels are at their lowest points in many places, especially the US, and you will note that the world is on the verge of food and water scarcity at a level never before known in recent history.

Water is especially getting scarce and since most of the world's food supply relies on irrigation, rather than rainfall for growth, it's obvious to see that there are just too many people in the world to feed, and if populations aren't reduced a dark catastrophe will come upon us in the near future.

Encouraging immigration from third world countries, because they can't sustain their people, into first world ones is a recipe for disaster by the West.

The current third world population is unsustainable.

Robert, Ocala, Florida

Is this real or a way to drive up the price of wheat, similiar to what Enron did in the California energy markets? I can see all kinds of reasons that we might actually be having a food crisis, but didn't someone see this a month ago? Why all the panic this week? I think common folk are smart enough to prepare themselves for real crisis--people can grow their own food if encouraged to do so. But the media is great at giving us news only when the crisis is upon us--Too Little, Too Late!

Dee, COS, USA

Chemtrails, eroneous misuse of many other pesticides, and the UN eugenics plan that is set for global population control is finally coming to surface! Many americans forget that one of the first actions of the Bush adminstration was to ressurrect the eugenics program and sign america up for yet another Orwellian episode of UN surrender and collaboration! Conspiracy???, Some use to call it just that, but now the NWO is getting more and more brazen in their efforts and don't care who knows it! Bush has outsourced jobs, technology, money, morals, and now our very flesh! Now, how many of you americans are ready for your microchip? Remember, Real ID starts on may 12 2008. Our gov't has given everything away except our flesh, and now that's coming up for export as we speak!

Ed, Little Creek, USA Virginia

"a measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny, and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine."
the rider on the black horse is galloping towards us at a furious pace.

daniel , sun valley, idaho

Shortages BY DESIGN!!

You had better believe it!

Pact Aims to Trim 'Grain Mountain' by Doubling Area Left Fallow : EU Agrees to Cut Farm Subsidies

http://www.iht.com/articles/1998/06/27/farm.t.php

"Chief among the policy reforms was a decision to double the amount of arable land taken out of cultivation to avoid the buildup of a new grain mountain."

Hmmmmm - looks like they succeeded!

Joe, MK, UK

Sorry, folks! You may continue to worry about earth, but I have my eyes set on Heaven. I am looking forward to the Second Coming of Christ and as far as this world goes, it is so corrupt, and people have sunk to such debauchery, that nothing surprises me. But I am not afraid because God did not create a Spirit of fear in me. Find some faith in your life or keep worrying about the earth, which is going to be changed anyway in the blnk of an eye. .

B Elizabeth Twietmeyer, Highland Springs, VA, USA

its all part of the globalists(NWO)Agenda...wake up people!!

john smith, southampton, hants

More fear mongering by the oil giants. What is their motive? Record oil prices means record profits so they are resorting to economic terrorism to gurantee their financial future. Wait until the World converts to free energy - energy made without using any oil or crops. It is coming sooner than you might think.

PAUL KINCAID, Toronto, Canada

Organic agriculture is far more efficient than conventional, if one compares output of calories as a function of input of calories. Furthermore, the effect of organic agriculture on the environment is far less damaging than conventional agriculture. Furthermore organic produce is qualitatively better. Incidentally, a notable recent book regarding the insidious nature of GMO foods and the corporate juggernaut is titled Seeds of Destruction, author Engdahl. Another recent noteworthy and disturbing book is Jeffrey Smith's Genetic Roulette.

Robert Snefjella, Hastings, Canada

i agree to the NWO comment, this has been mentioned many times in the past few years.

people laugh at comments like that but its true. im sure corn will be next. wonder why they started the doomsday seed bank hmmm.

mike, dover, de

The illuminati plans for NWO are progressing relentlessly. This is just one more part of the equation.

Andy, London,

We also have soylent green!!!

duane, Cherry Hill, NJ usa

Yes HAARP, but as Rosalind Peterson and Alan Buckman have mentioned on newyorkskywatch.com, there's less sunlight hitting the planet and more powdered metals falling from aerosol operations. Thousands of planes daily dumping tons of aluminum and who knows what else. That has seriously contributed to diminished crop return.

KSD, NYC, NY

Food shortages!

Ha!... don't worry I have the solution!

We simply divert a large part of our crop production away from food and towards bio-fuels, that will sort it out...
oh no... hang on...sorry... that's ridiculous!

But the EU (NWO) said we should do it... so lets give it a go anyway!

mr Candy, londonland, England

that some people on your comments are calling for more and more technological interference - given the absolutely overwhelming and terrifying evidence of environmental collapse in each and every area of the bio-sphere, whether global temperatures, soil depletion, mass extinctions, weather patterns, dead-zones, pollution, population growth etc, etc, - is clear evidence that the lunatics really have taken over the asylum. As we can see from the comment from Daren Coppock, National Assn of Wheat Growers, Washington, DC. I suppose the profits of doom look good on a balance sheet.

The only alternative to an organic sustainable system is an inorganic unsustainable system. Given 6 billion people and a global system that must, like a cancer, grow year on year, why not spend 30 seconds considering what that actually means.

simon prichard, wells, somerset

We will continue to have weather related problems while HAARP boils and lifts the ionosphere.
Government has caused this problem and I dare say the solution will be provided by their buddy's at Monsanto.

caroline carter, Weybridge, UK

Dear Daren Coppock, National Assn of Wheat Growers, Washington, DC,

Regardless of the shortage of supplies, the answer isn't some frankenfood bioengineered and patented for profit and control by monsanto that is so foreign to nature that only ignorant humans will eat.

Organic farming is the future regardless of what Monsanto or your investment portfolio desires.

Matt, sante fe, NM

As the article pointed out, the main cause for the shortage is bad weather for several years in most of the major wheat production areas in the world. Yes, other crops are competing aggressively for land domestically in the US, but not all of that is driven by biofuels. Some of it is caused by the availability of more efficient new technology in competing crops that isn't available - yet - in wheat. If wheat can gain access to new traits for drought tolerance, herbicide resistance, disease resistance and others, wheat will compete more favorably with those other crops and wheat growers will be able to continue meeting consumer needs. Unless we tie our hands behind our backs by requiring organic production or closing the door to technology, there's enough land to produce food, fuel, feed and fiber for everyone.

Daren Coppock, National Assn of Wheat Growers, Washington, DC

This rather puts an end to the big con of "organic" farming which has a far lower output & is till supported by crazy government cash

j.pitts, Northampton, England

Many scientific studies have shown that biofuel made from any crop are far worse for the environment than using ordinary gasoline and actually speeds global warming. Biofuel production is shrinking the human food supply, causing water shortages, and accelerating topsoil erosion which leads to desertification of the planet. The only biofuels that hold promise are biofuels made from algae or garbage. Unfortunately, those two technologies are still experimental, unproven, and years away from commercial production.

See: "The biofuel hoax is causing a world food crisis!"

http://home.att.net/~meditation/bio-fuel-hoax.html

The fact that the television media in the U.S.A. has ignored the world food crisis and the biofuel hoax is criminal. All of the three major United States presidential candidates are still on the mindless biofuel bandwagon, and until U.S. television ends its silence, I am afraid the biofuel bandwagon to hell will continue.

Christopher Calder, Eugene, U.S.A.

PS. I forgot to mention that in Italy they use wheat to make ethanol, and many wheat farmers in the U.S.A. and Canada have switched to growing corn for ethanol production.

Christopher Calder, Eugene, U.S.A.