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Congress: Address Rising Food Prices Now!
Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: Care2
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.
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.
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# 450:
3:21 pm PDT, May 8,
KJ Sims, Kentucky
God expects all people to help ALL people at all times, not just during an emergency/crisis, but daily.
God expects all people to help ALL people at all times, not just during an emergency/crisis, but daily.
# 449:
3:21 pm PDT, May 8,
Robert Fricke, Illinois
# 448:
3:20 pm PDT, May 8,
Sandy Gold, New Mexico
# 447:
3:20 pm PDT, May 8,
Marjorie Lev, California
# 446:
3:20 pm PDT, May 8,
Laurie Van Egeren, Michigan
# 445:
3:20 pm PDT, May 8,
Jessica Cummings, New Hampshire
# 444:
3:20 pm PDT, May 8,
Lois Tonoff, Ohio
It's impossible to put the needed nutrition on the family table. This will eventually lead to diseased bodies, and in some cases death.
It's impossible to put the needed nutrition on the family table. This will eventually lead to diseased bodies, and in some cases death.
# 443:
3:20 pm PDT, May 8,
Jennifer Johnson, Tennessee
# 442:
3:20 pm PDT, May 8,
Christine Maloney, Michigan
# 441:
3:20 pm PDT, May 8,
Miriam Figueroa, North Carolina
# 440:
3:20 pm PDT, May 8,
Karen Y. Walters, Texas
Please siop the raising cost of food for all people even with my food stamps i run out of food & have to get help from a church to have enuogh food to last & i know there are other people worse off then me!!
Please siop the raising cost of food for all people even with my food stamps i run out of food & have to get help from a church to have enuogh food to last & i know there are other people worse off then me!!
# 439:
3:20 pm PDT, May 8,
June Schwendeman, Florida
# 438:
3:20 pm PDT, May 8,
Erica Antonelli, Maryland
# 437:
3:20 pm PDT, May 8,
Karyn Keyes, California
# 436:
3:20 pm PDT, May 8,
Peter Smith, Washington
I urge all members off the legislative branches of US government to stop the use of corn and grain in bio-diesel fuels. Farmers in the grain belt should not be paid to not grow corn and grains. The USA should be doing everything in their collective power to help keep the cost food down for the poor of this world.
I urge all members off the legislative branches of US government to stop the use of corn and grain in bio-diesel fuels. Farmers in the grain belt should not be paid to not grow corn and grains. The USA should be doing everything in their collective power to help keep the cost food down for the poor of this world.
# 435:
3:20 pm PDT, May 8,
Michael E. Carter, South Carolina
# 434:
3:20 pm PDT, May 8,
Kim Schreiber, Colorado
# 433:
3:20 pm PDT, May 8,
Paris Tirone, Oregon
# 432:
3:20 pm PDT, May 8,
Ruth Fagen, Tennessee
# 431:
3:20 pm PDT, May 8,
Name not displayed, Ohio
We can't feed the world,so concentrate on feeding us first.
We can't feed the world,so concentrate on feeding us first.
# 430:
3:20 pm PDT, May 8,
Amy Frieden, California
# 429:
3:19 pm PDT, May 8,
Heather Smith, North Carolina
I am disabled and it is hard to make it with the cost of everything rising!
I am disabled and it is hard to make it with the cost of everything rising!
# 428:
3:19 pm PDT, May 8,
Roberta Curry, California
We have a responsibility as a leader in the world to help those less fortunate. It is the right thing to do and the decent thing to do.
We have a responsibility as a leader in the world to help those less fortunate. It is the right thing to do and the decent thing to do.
# 427:
3:19 pm PDT, May 8,
Guy Lucas, Illinois
# 426:
3:19 pm PDT, May 8,
Name not displayed, Connecticut
# 425:
3:19 pm PDT, May 8,
Robert Luke, California
You better stop that earmarking crap and quit letting Bush WASTE all this money. Us regular folks cannot deal with healthcare, gas, education, and now food costs. FIGURE IT OUT OR SOMETHING HAS GOT TO GIVE.
You better stop that earmarking crap and quit letting Bush WASTE all this money. Us regular folks cannot deal with healthcare, gas, education, and now food costs. FIGURE IT OUT OR SOMETHING HAS GOT TO GIVE.
# 424:
3:19 pm PDT, May 8,
Kenny Villacorta, Illinois
# 423:
3:19 pm PDT, May 8,
Name not displayed, Mississippi
# 422:
3:19 pm PDT, May 8,
Alexander Matheson, Massachusetts
# 421:
3:19 pm PDT, May 8,
Erin Marshall, Illinois
# 420:
3:19 pm PDT, May 8,
Tara Morris, California
# 419:
3:19 pm PDT, May 8,
Michael Kovacs, Washington
# 418:
3:19 pm PDT, May 8,
Lori Khan, Texas
This is all quite simple; food prices have escalated to the point that people are starving to death. In a country where we actually pay farmers NOT to grow, how can we take the position that we are a nation of superior moral standing and compassion while these people are suffering. Our own people are suffering; these others are dying. Please, let us show who we are as a nation of people by reaching out and releasing funding at once.
This is all quite simple; food prices have escalated to the point that people are starving to death. In a country where we actually pay farmers NOT to grow, how can we take the position that we are a nation of superior moral standing and compassion while these people are suffering. Our own people are suffering; these others are dying. Please, let us show who we are as a nation of people by reaching out and releasing funding at once.
# 417:
3:19 pm PDT, May 8,
Skot McDaniel, California
# 416:
3:18 pm PDT, May 8,
Tomi Phillips, Texas
# 415:
3:18 pm PDT, May 8,
Ingrid Haugen, Illinois
# 414:
3:18 pm PDT, May 8,
Inga Vickers, Texas
# 413:
3:18 pm PDT, May 8,
Andrew Courtien, California
# 412:
3:18 pm PDT, May 8,
Joyce Banzhaf, California
# 411:
3:18 pm PDT, May 8,
Emily Collyns, New York
# 410:
3:18 pm PDT, May 8,
John Diamond, Virginia
# 409:
3:18 pm PDT, May 8,
Richard Harold, New Jersey
Living on Social Security only, I know what it's like to be strapped by food prices. I know it's much worse in many other countries!!
Living on Social Security only, I know what it's like to be strapped by food prices. I know it's much worse in many other countries!!
# 408:
3:18 pm PDT, May 8,
Tom Sullivan, Alabama
# 407:
3:18 pm PDT, May 8,
Lee Bailey, New York
# 406:
3:18 pm PDT, May 8,
Teresa Schweitzer, Minnesota
# 405:
3:18 pm PDT, May 8,
Rebecca Matthews, Massachusetts
# 404:
3:18 pm PDT, May 8,
Frank Koenigsamen, Colorado
# 403:
3:18 pm PDT, May 8,
Donald Schwartz, Michigan
# 402:
3:18 pm PDT, May 8,
Ronald Gordon, Colorado
# 401:
3:18 pm PDT, May 8,
JEFFREY VALENTINE, Georgia