We already have a problem with food safety with all the "engineered" food that is being foisted on us. Food is no longer nutritional due to all of the modifications and tinkering with real food being set aside for chemical reproductions like high fructose corn syrup. ..... All one has to do is look at all of the sick and fat children with Type II diabetes from years of injesting subsidized unhealthy fast food filled with fat, fake sugar, salt and other chemicals. .................. This isn't a surprising result after 40 years of processed food replacing healthy whole foods while our beef cattle are innoculated with numerous rounds of antibiotics and force fed bovine growth hormones. ..... All being done to enrich the big food conglomerates at the expense of our health.

Food safety is the cigarette lie of the new century with food manufacturers telling us that processed food is perfectly safe while it steals our health and kills us early. ........... Years from now food manufacturers will be facing the same fate as cigarette manufacturers did in the 1980's.

mighty weak journalism Mr Spencer. More like cheerleading for the corporate interests. Production (gains of 250%) are not the problem. Even at that, is it somehow solely the American Farmer's job to feed the world? Market/Availability is not the problem (Cargill "quickly found" replacements for Egypt when Russian decided to keep it's wheat). The expanding population may or may not be the problem -- it's hard to tell because the food is not where the populations are and it's never going to be evenly distributed. Most likely the real problem is bottlenecking by the corps. and the govts in order to protect their own vested ($$$$ and power) interests and control markets ( on the buyer side and and seller side). Somehow I don't quite believe Land 'O Lakes, Cargill, Gen. Mills and friends really care about the hungry Africans unless they can make a profit selling the grain. By the way, how much of most human food is made up of the big commodities? What about the other food groups such as dairy, vegetables, fruits and proteins?