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Congress: Address Rising Food Prices Now!

Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: Care2

Americans are feeling the pain as the cost of living rises. The cost of a barrel of crude oil has doubled in a year, reaching a new record, and higher oil and energy prices affect the entire chain of food production. In 2008, U.S. food prices are expected to rise 4 to 5 percent. That's nearly doubling the already steep increases of the last three years.

The food crisis hits harder in developing countries, where many people already spend up to 80 percent of their income to buy food. Before this crisis, 854 million people worldwide were hungry. As many as 100 million people could fall further into poverty because of soaring prices.

We cannot wait until the next appropriations cycle comes in October. People are hungry now. Urge Congress to release funding immediately for emergency disaster assistance so that we can move quickly to get food to those in need.

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 5,000

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Dear [Decision maker],

The soaring food prices both at home and abroad are causing the global food crisis to reach epic proportions. I urge you to release funding immediately for emergency disaster assistance so that we can move quickly to get food to those in need.

For the world's poorest people in developing countries - who spend up to 80 percent of their income to buy food - the situation is even more devastating. Already, 854 million people are hungry, but the rising food costs mean an additional 100 million people could fall further into poverty.

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We cannot wait. Please release funding immediately to address this growing global crisis.

Sincerely,
[Your name here]

We took action on “Congress: Address Rising Food Prices Now!”!

# 4,000:

4:10 pm PDT, May 10, Earl and Patricia Williams, California
People are starving all over the world. We must help!

# 3,999:

4:06 pm PDT, May 10, Ke3lly Arellanes, Arkansas
It is past time to stop the greed of food coporations.

# 3,998:

4:04 pm PDT, May 10, Yariv Leers, New York

# 3,997:

4:03 pm PDT, May 10, Raymond Collins, Florida
Hunger is a real bummer

# 3,996:

4:02 pm PDT, May 10, Frank Kunkel, New York

# 3,995:

4:01 pm PDT, May 10, Jeff Fischman, New Jersey

# 3,994:

3:59 pm PDT, May 10, Eric Waxman, Pennsylvania

# 3,993:

3:58 pm PDT, May 10, Howard Birnbaum, New York

# 3,992:

3:52 pm PDT, May 10, Charmaine Slaven, Washington

# 3,991:

3:43 pm PDT, May 10, Dalia Hettfield, California

# 3,990:

3:39 pm PDT, May 10, Sean Sardari, CPE, California

# 3,989:

3:37 pm PDT, May 10, Bryan Chauveau, Virginia

# 3,988:

3:28 pm PDT, May 10, Jessica Skinner, Illinois

# 3,987:

3:09 pm PDT, May 10, Dean Loros, Oregon

# 3,986:

3:05 pm PDT, May 10, Jennie Pease, Oregon
To allow this to continue is "a defeat for humanity"(pope John Paul )

# 3,985:

3:01 pm PDT, May 10, Geraldine Baron, New York

# 3,984:

2:49 pm PDT, May 10, Nikki Housh, Washington

# 3,983:

2:36 pm PDT, May 10, Dennis Stein, Maine

# 3,982:

2:35 pm PDT, May 10, Phyllis Smith, Florida

# 3,981:

2:33 pm PDT, May 10, Nimita Iyer, Massachusetts

# 3,980:

2:31 pm PDT, May 10, Barbara Lancki, Ohio
It's unconscienable that, having the means to help those in such dire need, we have not yet acted to do so.

# 3,979:

2:30 pm PDT, May 10, Roxanne Jackson, Kansas
people are not able to eat people in America are starving because they can't afford food people on disability are getting 10 dollars a month for food stamps how much can you eat on that? something needs to be done to feed our own people

# 3,978:

2:25 pm PDT, May 10, Sarah Peters, Colorado

# 3,977:

2:16 pm PDT, May 10, Abril Cardona, Texas

# 3,976:

2:10 pm PDT, May 10, Cris Colombi, Argentina

# 3,975:

2:08 pm PDT, May 10, Sharon Beth Long, New York

# 3,974:

2:02 pm PDT, May 10, Audra Hughes, Florida

# 3,973:

2:02 pm PDT, May 10, Loren Wieland, Florida
It kills

# 3,972:

2:02 pm PDT, May 10, Bill Donavan, Massachusetts

# 3,971:

2:00 pm PDT, May 10, Ralph Van nostrand, New York
Not all of us are fat cats living on the public dole in Alexandria, etc. Take off your dunce caps, change corn to switch grass for ethanol, import ethanol from Brazil (sugar beets), make Mexico repay us in oil for the drug dole ware about to confer on them. In other words use your heads!!!!!

# 3,970:

1:58 pm PDT, May 10, Mary Esser, Florida

# 3,969:

1:55 pm PDT, May 10, Ric Williams, Texas

# 3,968:

1:46 pm PDT, May 10, Melelatai Guttenbeil, California

# 3,967:

1:44 pm PDT, May 10, Mary Lambert, Michigan

# 3,966:

1:39 pm PDT, May 10, Mary Williams, Utah

# 3,965:

1:33 pm PDT, May 10, Tim George, New York
No one in this world deserves to go to bed with an empty stomach. Help end the Food Crisis and ensure that everyone is able to go to bed with food in their belly!

# 3,964:

1:32 pm PDT, May 10, Philip Lipari, New Jersey

# 3,963:

1:31 pm PDT, May 10, Duke Marine, California

# 3,962:

1:29 pm PDT, May 10, Lisa Barfield-McCarty, Mississippi

# 3,961:

1:23 pm PDT, May 10, Martha Leahy, Massachusetts

# 3,960:

1:22 pm PDT, May 10, Name not displayed, New York

# 3,959:

1:16 pm PDT, May 10, Robert Abrams, Kentucky
Thank you for showing mercy and compassion for those in need, as you have done in the past.

# 3,958:

1:11 pm PDT, May 10, Anne Oliver, California

# 3,957:

1:09 pm PDT, May 10, Margie Borchers, Washington

# 3,956:

1:05 pm PDT, May 10, Rev. Ronald L. Sims, Michigan
Right now we are debating whether to eat or take medications, and with the rising prices of foods, medicines and gasoline, we won't even be able to go into town to the grocery store or the pharmacy. This rising prices of everyting except my Social Security is going to kill us, and utterly destroy people all over the world while George W. Bush and his Republican Administration sit on their behinds fighting a war that should never have been started, in Iraq. So, Ladies and Gentlemen of the U.S.Congress, get off of your political duffs and help the people of this country and the world. Let us do something to bring the US image back up to respectibility, and undo the damage of the present administration.

# 3,955:

1:05 pm PDT, May 10, Cassi Lias, California
please i know i sign so so many petitions like daily sometimes but this one even makes me think twice bout what i am going to say. So im going to say this is a matter that is big to me because i am not rich im not gonna lie im not poor though either but it is even hard for my family to buy enough food and we are only a fmaily of 4 so please i know it must be even mroe hard for others and i can only imagine for other places besides the U.S so please think about it and think of your family if you were poor and couldnt afford how would you like if you had to watch your family suffer and other familes so please just think about maybe research some things and jut look around you. sincerly, cassi[just a teen girl]

# 3,954:

1:04 pm PDT, May 10, Emilia Bland, California
Nobody should profit from something that will contribute to rise food prices like high gas prices among others.

# 3,953:

1:00 pm PDT, May 10, Jehan Sinclair, Florida

# 3,952:

12:56 pm PDT, May 10, April Boerstler, Oklahoma

# 3,951:

12:55 pm PDT, May 10, Hillary Endorf, Ohio

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