by Amela Piric

Created on: May 08, 2009   Last Updated: July 31, 2009

Our food prices are on the rise globally even though our incomes are not. We can somehow find ways to trim down different expenses we incur on a daily basis. However, food prices remain our biggest concern as they are extremely overblown due to high inflation rates that we are faced with on a daily basis. Yet, we can not possibly survive without food.

Rising food prices would still not be as much of concern if we did not have such large unemployment rates globally. Great Britain has witnessed largest unemployment rates so far since 1950. There is over a million of unemployed youth and we are faced with lay-offs on a daily basis as a global community. Our global economy is tied up in a vicious circle of increased inflation rates, weakened dollar value and high costs of corn and cattle.

We are faced with problems in the real estate industry and job losses are occurring all throughout the world. More and more people are worried about what future may bring to them and how longer they will be able to maintain their jobs. Yet, we still keep supporting big corporations by bailing them out instead of keeping them responsible for their actions. On the other hand, we are neglecting the army of unemployed ones as if we are not only one paycheck away from them.

We have a whole army of young and unemployed people struggling every day to make their ends meet. While ones are worried as to where their money for groceries will come from next month, others are throwing away food in the trash containers and overspending on impulse. Our middle class is no longer a significant factor as it is exists only on margins of our global society nowadays.

Don't think that the food crisis is too far away from you as the world has become a small village nowadays. None of us is immune any longer to job and home losses. But if you feel that you can not take part in politics in order to change things, you can start by changing yourself. What are you waiting for in the midst of this global crisis? Start a garden in your yard. You'll be amazed at the results. You won't get hungry even if we enter a phase of deep recession. You will have free access to healthy vegetables from your own garden. As an added benefit, slim figure may be awaiting you if you work hard enough.

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