Poor world wide harvests due to global warming !!

[Cidersomerset]

Its official as 2012 is going to be the worst harvest for years.Anyone experiancing this
summers wet weather, after drought warnings were put in place in the spring!!
Knows its all a bit fishy imo !!

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The UK saw its wettest summer for a century, Met Office figures have shown
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Food prices look set to rise after poor UK harvests due to recent wet weather.


The National Farmers' Union (NFU) said wheat yields in England were down by almost 15% on the five-year average, with productivity down to 1980s levels.

The British Retail Consortium said food prices were already being driven up after a rise in grain costs following the worst drought in 50 years in the US and a heatwave in Russia.

Poor UK harvests also mean smaller fruit and vegetables than normal.

This summer was the second wettest in the UK since records began, Met Office figures indicated. The only summer - defined as June, July and August - which was wetter since national records began was in 1912.A drought across much of England during the spring followed by record-breaking wet weather has meant a poor wheat harvest for many farmers, the NFU said.

Figures suggested wheat yields were down by 14.1% - but some farmers in the wet western half of England reported even lower yields.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19890250

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This is also happening all over the world and it is being claimed on 'global warming'

I think its more to do with Haarp and weather wars and control of resources , but what

ever if you are able, get some staples in the larder in case of shortages this winter....

[modwiz]

Drought! Is this a new concept or something? :bs:

[Belle]

There are some people in the Pacific Northwest US who have noted nightly chemtrails spraying, and the resulting morning temps drop by 3-5 degrees F when they should be rising, as well as pulling moisture out of the air changing humidity levels and causing extreme dryness.

Conspiracy fact or fiction? Who knows...just some people's observations fwiw.

[Sidney]

Low harvest due to GEO-ENGINEERING!!!!!!!!!!! AKA Chemtrails. IMHO:mad2::mad2::mad2:

[Cidersomerset]

http://www.channel4.com/news/q-a-why-are-food-prices-set-to-rise

Q+A: Why are food prices set to rise?

With farmers warning that the price of wheat is rising,
Channel 4 News answers your questions about how food prices will be affected and where.

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Why are food prices set to rise in the short term?

The heavy rain over the summer in England and Wales resulted in a stark fall in farmers' wheat crop this year - a 14.1 per cent fall on the five-year average - which means there will be more demand for what exists, driving up the price.

This has been exacerbated by problems with harvests in other countries as well: the worst drought in 50 years in the United States, and a heatwave in Russia will also impact on the global price of wheat and grain.

By how much?

The rising price of wheat does not directly correlate with the price of a loaf of bread. In fact, wheat or flour only accounts for around 10-30 per cent of what the consumer pays, with the baking and transporting part of the process making up the remainder of the cost.

Nonetheless, the price of bread has been on the rise in the last few years. Globally, wheat has already risen in price by almost 30 per cent in the last year alone, so even if producers look outside the UK for their produce, they will feel the pinch.

The British Retail Consortium says that a "fiercely competitive retail market" is protecting consumers from the most severe price rises, but there is a limit to how long the rising costs can be absorbed by farmers and smaller retailers. Oxfam believes that the price of food staples globally, including wheat and rice, may double in 20 years.

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What foods have been affected by price rises?

The cost of wheat is hugely important to the overall agricultural ecosystem, as 50 per cent of all wheat that is produced goes towards feeding animals, and this has pushed up the price.

"Cereal prices impact directly on other sectors, especially pig and poultry farmers who are already struggling with higher feed costs," said Guy Gagen, National Farmers' Union chief combinable crops adviser. "These UK harvest results will do little to alleviate the global dynamics of commodity prices, with the prospect of relatively high commodity levels through to 2013."

Other sectors have been feeling the pinch. The UK's apple crop is down 27 per cent since 2011, according to English Apples and Pears, which has pushed up the price while vegetable crops have also been affected by the drought - quality, as well as quantity.

Haven't they already risen in the last five years?

Wheat prices due to drought have made the headlines this week, but food prices have been rising significantly over the past five years. There were riots and demonstrations around the world in 2008 when food prices reached a sharp peak, but they have continued to rise, following severe weather in 2010.

Yemen, Somalia and Kenya are some countries that have already seen the drastic impact of rising food prices, says Tricia O'Rourke of Oxfam. "It is a result of the combined factors of rising food prices and humanitarian issues," she told Channel 4 News. "In developing countries, where people are spending three quarters of their income on food, it is already having a huge impact."

Who will notice a difference?

The population as a whole spends much less of the household budget on food than it did in the 1950s. But the lower a family's income, the more of their budget they spend on food and the 10 per cent of lowest income earners have already been feeling the pinch as their wages have failed to rise with inflation.

Oxfam research from last year shows that food prices have been rising at over twice the rate of the incomes of the poorest. Food affordability for this group has dropped by 20 per cent over the past eight years, according to government figures.



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What impact will this have on national health?

Food policy specialists have raised concerns about the impact that rising food prices will have on the health and wellbeing of those on low incomes. Between 2007 and 2010, low income families bought 25 per cent less fruit and 15 per cent fewer vegetables. They also cut back on bread, cereals, meat and biscuits.

"The squeeze on low incomes is immense," Tim Lang, professor of food policy at City University told Channel 4 News. "It [government figures] suggests widening health inequalities still further, as food is always a flexible item in household budgets."

What is the solution?

With international trade of food across the world, there is no doubt that the cost of food is a global issue. Professor Sir Gordon Conway, author of One billion hungry: how can we feed the world? says that a combination of increased food production, environmental stability and poverty reduction is part of the solution.

However closer to home, the government has been criticised for failing to address issues of rising food prices, with some calling for a specialist food policy group to be established.

"The government needs to lift its head out of the sand," Mr Lang told Channel 4 News. "In opposition, Lib Dems and Tories agreed to continue the shift which began to happen - slowly, reluctantly - under Labour after the 2007-08 price hike. Then as coalition, they axed all policy development."

[Hervé]

Wheat: 200 Clinically Confirmed Reasons Not To Eat It (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/200-clinically-confirmed-reasons-not-eat-wheat)


Posted on:
Sunday, October 7th 2012 at 5:00 am
Written by:
Sayer Ji, Founder (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/gmi-blogs/sayerji)


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With sales of foods labeled gluten free now reaching over 6 billion dollars a year, something truly profound is happening to the way in which Americans are perceiving the role of wheat in their diets. Once celebrated as the very poster-child of the health food movement, folks are increasingly rejecting this "king of grains," and are now identifying it as being at the very root of their health problems.

Detractors claim that the movement is just a fad, or worse, that those who have embarked upon it without an official diagnosis are a bit crazy. After all, simply "feeling better" following gluten elimination is not considered to be proof of anything within the conventional medical system. Biopsies, antibody, and genetic tests later, if nothing is found, and you still think gluten – this 'sacred,' omnipresent grain – is a problem, you might just get referred to a psychiatrist.

But anecdotes and "subjective experience" aside, the type of clinical research that constitutes "Truth," with a capital T, from the perspective of the dominant medical establishment, can be found on the National Library of Medicine's biomedical database known as MEDLINE (http://www.pubmed.gov/). This vast bibliographic archive contains over 21 million citation entries, which as of time of this writing, contains 9,776 references to gluten (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=gluten).
There has been a sharp increase in interest and research on the topic of "gluten intolerance" – although we prefer to label the subject "gluten toxicity," in order to shift the focus away from the "victim" back to the "aggressor," the gluten itself. In 1971, there were 71 studies listed on MEDLINE which referenced gluten. Last year in 2011, there were 514.

One of our many interests here at GreenMedInfo.com is to identify "Problem Substances (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/greenmed/display/toxic-ingredient)," which is why we have created an index by that name with 698 subjects listed from A-Z. If you navigate to WHEAT (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/toxic-ingredient/wheat) under the "W's" you will find a list under "Advanced Topics" with 205 health conditions and/or adverse health effects associated with wheat consumption, all of which were determined solely through research in peer-reviewed and published medical journals indexed on MEDLINE.

You will also find, below the listed diseases, a "pharmacological actions" field set which lists 20 distinct ways in which wheat harms the body, e.g. nerve-damaging (neurotoxic), immune-damaging (immunoreactive), inflammatory, etc.


At present, the conventional medical establishment only identifies a handful of disorders likely to be caused by wheat consumption, such as:

Wheat Allergy
Celiac Disease
Dermatitis Herpetiformis
Exercise-Induced Wheat Anaphylaxis
These conditions, however, are but the tip of a massive "celiac" iceberg. In a previous essay, The Dark Side of Wheat (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/page/dark-side-wheat-new-perspectives-celiac-disease-wheat-intolerance-sayer-ji), we discussed the problem from a more philosophical perspective. There is now, however, a huge dataset firmly establishing the likelihood that wheat intolerance, or better yet, wheat toxicity, is a universal, human species-specific problem, occurring only in differing degrees, and mostly sub-clinically, at least through the optic of conventional screenings and technologies.
One must also account for the "invisible thorn," which is wheat lectin – known more technically as Wheat Germ Agglutinin (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/toxic-ingredient/wheat-germ-agglutinin-wga)(WGA) -- and which can cause a broad range of adverse health effects, even while being undetected through conventional screenings. Learn more about this topic in our essay Opening Pandora's Bread Box: The Critical Role of Wheat Lectin in Human Disease (http://www.greenmedinfo.com/page/opening-pandoras-bread-box-critical-role-wheat-lectin-human-disease).

In order to fully appreciate the extent of damage wheat and/or gluten consumption can have on the body, included "sprouted wheat" (since WGA is still present), view the screenshot from our Wheat page below:

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Full article: http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/200-clinically-confirmed-reasons-not-eat-wheat

[bluestflame]

so they can get the world BEGGING for gmo crops ( of course they would not do this if there was plenty of normal crops to go around ) I would not be surprised if they are also fudging the figures on stored grain too , to create the perception of an immediate crisis

[Mandala]

Wow I found 5 diseases I battle in that list. I always feel better when I omit wheat products. Thank you, most interesting.

[DeDukshyn]

Create weather resistant GMO pant seeds, modify the weather, offer GMO seeds as solution ... but the goal is maybe to get this done ...

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?50743-Monsanto-could-produce-food-that-suppresses-a-specific-gene-in-all-who-eat-it&p=567181&viewfull=1#post567181

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?50743-Monsanto-could-produce-food-that-suppresses-a-specific-gene-in-all-who-eat-it&p=567259&viewfull=1#post567259

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?50743-Monsanto-could-produce-food-that-suppresses-a-specific-gene-in-all-who-eat-it&p=567234&viewfull=1#post567234

[we-R-one]

You will also find, below the listed diseases, a "pharmacological actions" field set which lists 20 distinct ways in which wheat harms the body, e.g. nerve-damaging (neurotoxic), immune-damaging (immunoreactive), inflammatory, etc.


At present, the conventional medical establishment only identifies a handful of disorders likely to be caused by wheat consumption, such as:

Wheat Allergy
Celiac Disease
Dermatitis Herpetiformis
Exercise-Induced Wheat Anaphylaxis


So glad you posted this...I was thinking the same thing. It's my understanding that wheat use to be good for you way back when, and now it's not..I can't remember if it's due to how they harvest it or the fact that most wheat has been genetically modified or both. I didn't read all the links you posted so maybe the answer lies in there.

[Hervé]

I can't find the link now (it may be in this thread: The gut of most disease... NOT what you think! (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?43548-The-gut-of-most-disease...-NOT-what-you-think-) ) but I recently read an article about the genealogy of wheat and the grains we have now are hybrids of different varieties. The hybridization was both natural and manmade to increase "yield" and, with it, an increase in the toxics produced. The whole thing is then compounded by the (industrial production) "need" for fast rising and processing.

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There we go: http://maninisglutenfreeblog.com/2011/07/05/the-history-of-how-wheat-became-toxic/