Making a Killing from Hunger: We Need to Overturn Food Policy, Now!

For some time now the rising cost of food all over the world has taken households, governments and the media by storm.  The price of wheat has gone up by 130% over the last year.1 Rice has doubled in price in Asia in the first three months of 2008 alone,2 and just last week it hit record highs on the Chicago futures market.3 

	The global food system feeds gluttonous corporations first	The Philadelphia Inquirer	Mon Apr 28	1
	Food prices rising, but no shortage in U.S.	Associated Press	Sun Apr 27	3
	World food crisis looms closer.	the Mail online	Sat Apr 26	4
	UN: Biofuel Production 'Criminal Path' to Global Food Crisis	ENS-newswire	Tue Apr 29	5