iSpeak: Food Riots
Last week, starving Haitians rioted over food shortages, bringing down their government. There have been food riots in another dozen countries in the past two weeks, with growing shortages of basic crops and, in some cases, famine. Our newspapers carry photos of children rummaging through garbage dumps looking for scraps. Here in the United States, food prices are going up, same as gasoline and other basic necessities. What do you think is the reason for food shortages? What can be done, if anything?
Thanks to Colin Powelland President Bush, the ex-Haitian President Aristide is out the country now in Africa, but the Haitian people are suffering even more of famine and poverty. Haiti needs help with jobs, food, infrastructure, schools—everything except politics because politics is dirty everywhere. Haitians do not need outsiders to fix their politics. They can deal with it if there is enough security in Haiti.
Elsie Alcius
Nursing
St. John's Episcopal Hospital
Far Rockaway, NY | The reason we have a food shortage, I think, is that people need to eat in moderation, and not excessively. If only people will eat in small portions, we will have enough food to feed the world.
Marilyn Williams | The environmental lobby has got to stop preventing us from drilling for our own oil and for building refineries.
Corn should be used for food and cattle feed, not ethanol.
Robert Gillman
Pharmacist
Rite Aid
Bronx, NY
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