Its really amazing to be in an era where technology is innovating like never before but at the same time this world is witnessing a unprecedented shortage of food around the world and sky rocketing prices of basic consumables like wheat and rice. They say that the developing countries like China and India are consuming more than in past hence this is causing a great imbalance in Demand and Supply for the basis food across the world.
The world on one side is chasing a dream of making the world a global village by "WIRELESSing" everything around itself, on the same time, is constantly reminded of not to loose focus on the the very very basic thing to live. So even if we achieve everything we still need air to breathe, food to eat and home to live and thats why we need to wonder sometimes "Can we eat technology ?".
There can be lot of reasons behind this food shortage which can be anybody`s guess like
1. Increase in consumption of food in Developing nations.
2. Since there is a big migration of people from small towns who were farming in developing nations in search of other employment due to uncertain changing patterns of climate.
3. Use of BioFuels is growing in the developed nations.
Have a look at the following two Videos.
Wheat shortage around the world
ABC world news coverage on the Global Food Crisis in China, India, Indonesia, Egypt
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=4628750
In a single breath we talk about "3G iPhone is arriving" and at the same time we listen/see "People are fighting for a loaf of bread". Unbelievable !
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