Here in the Western world, we take so many things for granted and to be quite honest, we have never had it so good. This in itself is a global concern.

Now with the threat of a recession and various foods becoming a shortage, the average household is starting to pull its belt in as regards price increases on foods they buy regularly such as bread, milk and meat and they are changing their shopping habits to find the cheapest, thus putting pressure on other supermarket chains to find more competitive places to stock their shelves, to keep the consumer happy.

My dad who is now a pensioner called me the other day and said he was absolutely shocked to find that the loaf of bread he has normally brought shot up in price to well over a pound (we will in England). He never really took much notice of his food bill, but was querying another item and happened to notice the bread marked at 1.53(pounds). Which he then also queried as he never trusts "those bar codes". "Give me good old fashioned ticket pricing any day" he would say.

Sure enough, the supervisor checked the price and explained to him that the particular loaf he buys is a more expensive one and had indeed gone up nearly 40p in the last month.

In the papers I read about the recent culling of baby seals in Canada because of the diminishing stocks of fish due to their daily requirement of fish intake. Yet we do not seem to do anything about the ever increasing populations of humans. Ok folks I am not trying to say that we should have a limit of how many kids one should have in a family but it is pretty much on a knock on effect, that the more families are having kids, then the requirement for food is higher and thus causing further pressure on food resources.

I worked over the Christmas holidays for a very famous food outlet and I have to say my eyes were opened (very widely) indeed to the amount of food that was brought for the festive season, despite the shops only actually being closed for less than two days during that time. You thought food was going out of fashion and it was very frightening to see how many people had trolley's spilling over the brim with their food buys.

I dread to think if there was ever a food shortage in this country how people would react! Greed in this country is certainly becoming commonplace (but also globally) and having at the end of the day stayed for what was called a "waste" buy in the food shop I worked in as mentioned above, I fear the day

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