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To: miraje who wrote (252290)	6/1/2008 12:29:23 PM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) of 793772

Watch Europe, where the rumblings are already beginning. Food prices are rocketing all over Europe By David Blair ...All over Europe, the rocketing cost of food and fuel is straining family budgets, stirring unrest and shaking governments. David Blair examines the roots and the impact of a widening crisis... ...Anyone outraged by the cost of a trip to Tesco or Sainsbury's – or the price of filling their car – should know that they are not alone: the same bewilderment and anxiety is sweeping the Continent... ...Bulgarian bus drivers are going on strike. Italian fishermen will soon down tools. Lorry drivers have sealed off oil refineries across France. Even the fishermen of Belgium, hitherto a relatively obscure force in European politics, are due to mass in Brussels... ...This week, France's ever-troublesome fishermen, incensed by the rising fuel prices that threaten their livelihoods, blockaded Cherbourg... ...No less than 100 million tonnes of maize will be grown in America this year for the sole purpose of filling fuel tanks instead of human stomachs – refined into ethanol... ...the world has consumed more food than it has produced in each of the past three years. Emergency stocks are steadily being depleted... ...The world's remaining food stocks are being run down – by 50 million tonnes of grain last year alone... ____________________________________________________________ Full article at: telegraph.co.uk

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