2022: The Year Food and Energy Security Fears Hit Europe
With Ukraine in flames and the EU green agenda in pieces, 2022 was the year that fears over food and energy security once again hit Europe.
With Ukraine in flames and the EU green agenda in pieces, 2022 was the year that fears over food and energy security once again hit Europe.
A federation of French supermarket chains has warned of significant waste of fresh products in the event of possible power cuts in the country this winter, with those in rural areas much more likely to face outages.
A group of 40 cooks in the small town of Olocuilta, El Salvador, this month made an 18-foot-wide pupusa, a traditional stuffed corn patty, breaking the record for the world’s largest ever made.
Supermarkets in the UK have reportedly begun rationing eggs as the supply of the staple food is drastically impacted by both bird flu and the ongoing inflation crisis.
Food prices in Germany have spiked by just under 40 per cent over last year, with potatoes spiking by as much as 70 per cent in 12 months.
This will likely be the most expensive Thanksgiving ever for most American families.
The ambitious tax reform spearheaded by Colombia’s far-left president Gustavo Petro was finally approved by both chambers of Colombia’s Congress on Thursday. The tax plan, introduced by Petro a day after he took office in August, hopes to collect upwards of 20 billion Colombian Pesos ($4 billion) from 2023 onwards.
During an interview with Nexstar Washington Correspondent Reshad Hudson aired on Thursday’s edition of NewsNation’s “Rush Hour,” President Joe Biden stated that his administration is bringing food prices down and that “the main driver of food prices” isn’t the elevated price
A family in Venezuela required on average the equivalent of 28.32 months’ worth of the country’s minimum wage to be able to properly afford food during September, according to data published by the Center for Documentation and Social Analysis of the Venezuelan Federation of Teachers (CENDAS-FVM) on Sunday.
Dutch schoolchildren have been fed mealworms as part of a behavioural change programme backed by the government.
On Thursday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Bloomberg Markets: The Open,” White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese stated that in both the September inflation report and previous reports, food prices “are moving up too fast. And that’s something that we
As food prices soar to historic highs due to inflation, American consumers are not getting relief from grocery stores as they have been offering fewer discounts since the pandemic, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The last time food prices were rising this fast, Jimmy Carter was president.
On Monday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Late Night,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) argued that while gas prices “have gone down considerably,” there is still the need to combat “this issue of corporate greed,” because “the oil companies are making record-breaking profits.”
During an interview with ABC on Friday, Principal Deputy White House Communications Director Kate Berner responded to a question on what the Biden administration can do to lower energy and food costs by pointing to declining gas prices and measures
On Wednesday’s broadcast of ABC’s “GMA3,” House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) responded to a question on what Democrats will do about food prices by stating that they already passed a bill on the subject and the Inflation Reduction
The Los Angeles Unified School District reportedly shared a video that said it was wrong to deem junk food bad, and a parent group was not happy about it.
Although the establishment media claimed inflation fell in August, U.S. households did not get any relief in the grocery store aisles.
Britain’s climate-driven push for more solar farms is now risking the country’s food security, the head of the state’s environment committee has claimed.
A Yankees fan lit the internet on fire Monday night when viral video showed him transforming his hot dog into a beer straw.
Over 100 people have been arrested by police in relation to demonstrations resisting EU green agenda plans that will see Dutch farmers lose their livelihoods.
On Monday’s broadcast of ABC’s “GMA3,” economist and President of Queens’ College Dr. Mohamed El-Erian stated that the “really painful” food price inflation will improve, but it will “take quite a few months for us to feel less pain when
Elected representatives in the Netherlands have grilled the country’s government over exactly how many farms will be forced to close to satisfy the EU’s Great Reset green agenda.
Nearly everywhere you look in the grocery store, food prices are still soaring.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying, who has been bidding to become her agency’s loudest voice on social media, was mercilessly ridiculed on Tuesday for claiming that the large number of dumpling and noodle restaurants in Taipei conclusively proves Taiwan belongs to the Chinese Communist Party.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has expressed dismay that Brexit has temporarily delayed efforts to normalise the consumption of bugs to achieve “net zero”.
(AFP) – Kyiv and Moscow accused each other of striking Europe’s largest nuclear site on Friday, causing a reactor stoppage as three grain ships departed Ukraine under a deal to avert food shortages.
(AFP) – Millions of boxes of oranges are spoiling in containers stranded at European ports as South Africa and the European Union lock horns in a dispute over import rules, citrus growers have said.
Food and beverage company Lyon Magnus voluntarily recalled 53 of its products on Friday due to possible microbial contamination concerns.
Sections of Beirut’s grain silos collapsed on Sunday after weakening during a weeks-long fire caused by recent high temperatures that fermented the silos’ grain stores, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported, noting that the silos were infamous for shielding much of western Beirut from an August 2020 port explosion and sustaining partial damage from the blast themselves.
The plague of inflation and criminal activity in New York City has caused one store to lock up its Spam.
The head of a major fast food chain in Ireland has expressed concern that the country may face food shortages this coming winter, telling the general public that they should stock up.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian defence ministry officials on Sunday insisted that an airstrike on the port of Odesa — less than a day after Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement on resuming grain shipments from there — had hit only military targets.
(AFP) – Russian missiles struck Ukraine’s key Black Sea port of Odessa Saturday, officials said, in an attack Kyiv described as a “spit in the face” of a deal signed by the warring neighbours a day earlier to resume grain exports blocked by the conflict.
(AFP) – The European Union will discuss tightening sanctions against Russia on Monday, as Moscow is accused of using the continent’s largest nuclear power plant to store weapons and launch missiles on the surrounding regions of southern Ukraine.
A woman recently climbed through a McDonald’s drive-thru window to make her own meal as employees watched, laughing.
The EU is now in the “contingency planning” stages regarding a potential coming migrant surge, a Commissioner for the bloc has confirmed.
The war has trapped about 22 million tons of grain inside Ukraine, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, a growing crisis for the country known as the “breadbasket of Europe” for its exports of wheat, corn and sunflower oil.
Farmers protesting plans to reduce emissions that could put many out of business have continued blocking supermarket distribution centres.
Dutch farmers angry at government plans to slash emissions protested with tractors, the latest actions in a summer of discontent.