by Michael Zaphah

Created on: June 11, 2009   Last Updated: June 12, 2009

How are people in your part of the world coping with the rising food prices?

The old adage 'waste not want not' needs to be applied to amber waves of grain. If we are truly in a world crisis, then you could never tell that by looking at most Americans. It can be noted, that we caused the first Great Depression and we have caused the second one as well. Being greedy has led most Americans to become great wasters or even less concerned about where tax dollars are going and Americans could care less that they throw away more food in this country than the average person in the dumping ground of San Marcos, Philippines picks out in a given year.

Obesity is on the rise and more Americans are fatter and eating more when fourteen percent of the world's population is in starvation (bread.org). If the world is in a food crisis, then the United States of America is in an obesity crisis. The only reason why ten percent of the United States population is starving is simply, they are young children that can't feed themselves because their foolish parents are too busy enjoying life, getting high or just too lazy to go get the food that is available for them. Our children of this country are the only ones suffering, and in a study by the University of Arizona in Tucson, a shocking forty to fifty percent of all food ready for harvest never gets eaten on average.

The Nation's leaders whether Democrat or Republican are banking on food costs rising. Lester Brown of the Nation Summit states: "It's time to ask if the fuel value of grain is really worth more than its food value." The I.F.I.C Releases new 2008 Food Biotechnology Survey has stated a number of Americans who have heard of sustainable food production has increased to forty-one percent in 2008 from thirty percent in 2007, although a majority (fifty-nine percent) continue to say that they have heard "nothing at all" about the concept.

The American lack of concern for a food crisis has similiarities with the biblical prophecy of the church of the Laodicea's in the Roman Empire, which Apostle John wrote stating: "...because thou say I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and have not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked..." (Revelation 3:17).

We can't go blindly into the 21st century acting as if we are back in the sixties and seventies. We must join the global

Community and help raise better crop production by looking for better production, and teach our generation to take better care of themselves. However, if we are going to be the noted world feeding troth of the entire world's population, we will need to up the stakes on food production, in addition to being above other nations as the worlds fruited plain. Then we need to think about sharing more of our technologies by not polluting the crops of our world's natural resources.

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