“The cost of food continues to skyrocket as shelves empty around the globe, making it more and more difficult for people to afford to feed their families,” he wrote.
Slavo noted that media outlets only became concerned when they came to understand that the food collapse will bring more civil unrest in the forms of protests and riots.
Ayelet Sheffey and Harry Robertson, writing for Business Insider, made the possibility of civil unrest the focus of why the world needs to address the food collapse.
“A food crisis is unfolding around the world, with prices shooting up everywhere,” they wrote. “And when that happens, everyone feels the pain. People can cut back on movies or even driving when the cost of tickets or gas surges, but everyone needs to eat.”
“Unless urgent action is taken … the crisis could have dire global consequences,” they continued. “Civil unrest could spread, fueling instability and even war in some of the world’s poorest regions. A breakdown in food systems could drive huge waves of migration.”
Their article further noted that protests, riots and labor strikes have already occurred around the world due to food scarcity.
Sheffey and Robertson’s Business Insider article blamed President Vladimir Putin for pushing the global food system to “a breaking point.”
“The war hasn’t just laid waste to farms. Putin’s troops have blockaded Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, stopping vital agricultural products from leaving the country,” they claimed.
William Rhodes and Stuart Mackintosh, writing for Reuters, further escalated this by claiming that the West needs to begin responding to Putin’s supposed actions causing havoc on global food supply chains.
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