Food shortage

By Connie Veneracion on Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 1:57 am in , , · Comment

In the Philippines, if people don’t stop making babies like rabbits, future generations will starve. That’s according to a spokesperson of the National Food Authority (NFA). Actually, I don’t understand why this should be newsworthy at all. Every person with a brain knows that the more mouths to feed, the lesser the share of each.
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UN official: More will starve

By Connie Veneracion on Saturday, March 8, 2008 at 5:52 pm in , , · Comments Off

The government says there will be no rice shortage but food prices will be higher.
Isn’t that ironic? What with people do with the “sufficient” rice supply if they can’t afford to buy? World Food Programme country director Valerie Guarnieri is right: “…there’s a possibility that the government would have to feed more people because of [...]