HUNGRY FOR CHANGE (summary)

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The Sound and Fury

 Downsizing Humanity

by Dr. Mark Sircus

'The entire world is coming apart at the seams and, worse, there is no solution until we hit the wall and the bulk of us are squashed like flies. Perhaps we could avoid some of the misery heading our way if the government of the United States was simply dissolved, giving back full governance to the States to manage their own affairs. Might as well chuck the European Union while we are at it.

But since no one is considering such a good idea, the crisis itself is going to have to be the solution and it will carry with it devastating changes to a broad swath of humanity. There is no point even in standing up boldly in an attempt to save the future for that future has already been stolen by a monstrous elite who have known where this is all heading for a long time. Rich people can be as stupid and mean as anyone else and obviously there are more psychopaths and sociopaths in the world than we can possibly imagine.'


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You Are Being Warned

by Dr. Mark Sircus

'Prices are expected to increase due to inclement weather patterns influencing international commodity production and demand. Extreme cold snaps and heavy snowfall in Europe and the United States are increasing demand for oil and destroying or hurting crops; droughts and deluges in Australia are wreaking havoc on sugar and wheat production; Argentinean corn production is being threatened by weather patterns; and parts of China are expected to run short of oil and even coal in the coming winter months. “Things” are getting more expensive. 

'That is a fact. Energy, metals, and the ‘softs’ (grains and cotton) are all headed higher both in the US and elsewhere across the world. In India food inflation is taking off like a plane off a runway, and China is not far behind. India’s annual food inflation went up again for another week on the back of rising prices of fruits, vegetables, and milk and stood at 9.46 percent for the week ending 4 December. Food inflation was 8.60 percent in the previous week. 

'This is the second consecutive week of rise in food inflation. While prices of rice rose by 1.47 percent, vegetables went up by one percent, milk by 17.76 percent, and fruits by 19.75 percent on an annual basis. Pulses and wheat prices declined by 4.24 percent and 11.46 percent, respectively. Onions became costlier by 29.93 Readpercent on an annual basis.' 

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What If Supermarkets Fail Us?

'If you’ve read the news closely these past couple of weeks, you may have found a very interesting item buried somewhere in between headlines: food prices in America grew by more than 1.5 times the overall rate of inflation this year. They went up 1.7 percent, to be precise. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is forecasting a 2 to 3 percent food inflation rate in 2011, a number that many experts expect to be on the low-end. Meanwhile, big agribusiness players like Kraft Foods, General Mills, McDonald’s, Kellogg and Sara Lee have already announced that they will rise [sic] their prices come January.'

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Hunger & Starvation to Visit Humanity

 

 By Dr. Mark Sircus

'When a large segment of the population is facing a drastic cut in income in the face of escalating food prices, we have a catastrophic problem in the making. Today we have the simultaneous events of income deflation and food inflation, two high-speed express trains coming down the tracks at each other, plus a financial crisis colliding with staggering crop losses that are cutting deeply into available planetary food reserves. Prices of food are beginning to soar again just as millions are losing the ability to afford a reasonable diet, though little of this is being observed or reported. But soon even the blind will see.'

 
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Across U.S., Food Stamp Use Soars and Stigma Fades

'With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children.

It has grown so rapidly in places so diverse that it is becoming nearly as ordinary as the groceries it buys. More than 36 million people use inconspicuous plastic cards for staples like milk, bread and cheese, swiping them at counters in blighted cities and in suburbs pocked with foreclosure signs.

Virtually all have incomes near or below the federal poverty line, but their eclectic ranks testify to the range of people struggling with basic needs. They include single mothers and married couples, the newly jobless and the chronically poor, longtime recipients of welfare checks and workers whose reduced hours or slender wages leave pantries bare.'

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