Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Food, glorious food. Hot sausage and mustard!

I was having a conversation with my mum recently. She told me she had been grocery shopping but had not been able to buy fresh fruit or vegetables because there weren’t any on the shelves.
There was a recent fuel tax increase in England. It has hit the trucking industry quite hard and in turn this has hit the stores and then on down to the consumer.

That alone is not it. Strained by rising demand and battered by bad weather, the global food supply chain is stretched to the limit, sending prices soaring and sparking concerns about a repeat of food riots last seen a few years ago.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41023317/ns/business-world_business/

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