Comments on: Rising food prices: who is at fault?

By: Marion

Marion — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:45:49 +0000

Welcome. A good place to start is Jean Soler’s “Semiotics of Food in the Bible.” An excerpt is available at http://www.columbia.edu/itc/religion/segal/v3201/soler.html.
Thanks for writing.

By: Asad

Asad — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:52:34 +0000

There’s plenty of blame to go around. We have irresponsible agriculture, nations with expanding middle class sectors, and food corporations aggressively marketing to a hungry populace.

I’m new to your blog and I’m quite impressed with the attractive design. I wonder if you have any opinion on the halal diet of Muslims or the kosher diet of Jews. They say that pork, for instance, is unclean. And indeed, trichinosis is associated with pigs. Is there any other scientific evidence to support these religious diets.

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 15 May 2008 02:09:00 +0000

This is worth a read to add a dimension to the debate:
http://ajayshahblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/what-happened-to-global-food-prices.html

“Poor people are the shock absorber that stabilise prices for non-storable agricultural commodities.”