U.N. Secretary-General

Calls Rising Food Prices

‘Global Crisis’

Friday, April 25, 2008

•  AP

VIENNA, Austria —  A sharp rise in food prices has developed into a global crisis, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday.

Ban said the U.N and all members of the international community are very concerned, and immediate action is needed.

He spoke to reporters at U.N. offices in Austria, where he was meeting with the nation’s top leaders for talks on how the United Nations and European Union can forge closer ties.

“This steeply rising price of food — it has developed into a real global crisis,” Ban said, adding that the World Food Program has made an urgent appeal for additional $755 million.

“The United Nations is very much concerned, as all other members of the international community,” Ban said. “We must take immediate action in a concerted way all throughout the international community.”

Ban urged leaders of the international community to sit down together on an “urgent basis” to discuss how to improve economic distribution systems and the production of agricultural products.

Lee ADDS: What in the world does the U.N. expect when nations start using corn and other grains as fuel instead of food? It does not take a genius to see that!

There is a man in the Southweatern U.S. that has developed deriving fuel from POND SCUM! The GREAT NEWS here is that he gets more production out of a single acre that those utilizing corn and grains do out of 100 acres!