Fear of a food shortage

Fears of a food shortage never have left us. It was front-page news then; it’s front-page news now, with stories spilling out of some of the poorest corners of the world of riots sparked by the rising price of food.

And though we don’t face a shortage in the United States, the rising prices of milk, eggs, bread and vegetable oil have been hard to miss and have some people cutting back on what they eat and when. Economists project food inflation will run at 5 percent this year, with no immediate end in sight.

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