World food shortages and skyrocketing prices for staple goods, (wheat, corn, etc), are grabbing world attention and for good reason. While we in the affluent western countries such as Canada, America, Australia and Great Britain may gripe about our cornflakes costing a little more, the people in the impoverished third world simply can't absorb the higher sticker prices. And when you have people scrimping together enough money to buy expensive bread, this is when revolutions begin to happen, as has happened in Tunisia and Egypt.
Whether the food crisis is caused by weather events or the loss of the little worker honeybees maters not to people looking for answers from their leaders, and food for their family. Already the prophecy in Revelation 6:6 is coming to pass in these third world nations. Soon it will be all over the world. (Check out our other blog entry today from the National Inflation Association).
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Whether the food crisis is caused by weather events or the loss of the little worker honeybees maters not to people looking for answers from their leaders, and food for their family. Already the prophecy in Revelation 6:6 is coming to pass in these third world nations. Soon it will be all over the world. (Check out our other blog entry today from the National Inflation Association).
Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages, and six pounds of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine! Revelation 6:6 NIV
From the article:
The bee crisis has been treated as a niche concern until now, but as the UN's index of food prices hits an all time-high, it is becoming urgent to know whether the plight of the honey bee risks further exhausting our food security. Almost a third of global farm output depends on animal pollination, largely by honey bees. These foods provide 35pc of our calories, most of our minerals, vitamins, and anti-oxidants, and the foundations of gastronomy. Yet the bees are dying – or being killed – at a disturbing pace.
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Josette Sheeran at the UN's World Food Program puts it well: "If people don't have enough to eat they only have three options: they can revolt, they can migrate or they can die." Shortages of all commodities can cause hardship, but only food and water exact the ultimate price. It is no wonder that spiraling prices are grabbing the headlines again.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/8306970/Einstein-was-right-honey-bee-collapse-threatens-global-food-security.html
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