Peter Chua, Mar. 28, 2008
Peasants grow rice,
feeding all.
Food processers,
manual laborers,
and vendors
give it value.
Markets double its price to profit,
starving peasants and workers.
The elite consume,
overpriced,
priceless rice.
And the market's gravediggers
rise
of its shadows.
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Rice Shortages Creating Fears of Asia Unrest
By KEITH BRADSHER Mar 28 2008
The price of rice, a staple in the diets of nearly half the world’s population, has almost doubled on international markets in the last three months.
Jump in rice price fuels fears of unrest
By Javier Blas in London and Daniel Ten Kate in Bangkok
Friday Mar 28 2008 04:15
Rice prices jumped 30 per cent to an all-time high on Thursday, raising fears of fresh outbreaks of social unrest across Asia where the grain is a staple food for more than 2.5bn people.
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