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Provide Food Security for All

Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: Catholic Relief Services

The recent skyrocketing cost of food threatens the security of people all over the world. The price of wheat has doubled in less than a year, and rice, which is the staple food for 3 billion people, has tripled in cost in the last 18 months. For example, right now in Burkina Faso, a middle-class family of seven spends 75 percent of its monthly revenue on food costs alone. If immediate needs are not met, and if resources and policies supporting increased agricultural production are not put in place soon, we will see a cascade of hunger across the globe!

The sacredness and fundamental dignity of every human life calls us to do everything we can to meet the basic needs of our brothers and sisters around the globe, including the need for food. We must find immediate and long-term solutions so that more prices increases are averted. A first step is making sure that emergency help is provided in the U.S. 2008 Supplemental Appropriations bill and that money is also set aside for development programs to avert future food emergencies. Please take action today!

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Dear [Decision Maker],

The world stands on the brink of a downward spiral of hunger and suffering. Stoked by rising fuel prices, unpredictable weather in key food-producing countries, and demand from emerging economies like India and China, the surge in food prices has already sparked violent protests across Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.

The price of wheat has doubled in less than a year, and rice, which is the staple food for 3 billion people, has tripled in cost in the last 18 months. This food insecurity threatens the economic gains made by developing countries as well as their political stability. We need to urgently find ways to meet the immediate needs of the hungry and to implement resources and policies supporting increased agricultural production.

To that end, I would urge:

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6:39 pm PDT, May 6, Patricia Bradford, California

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6:38 pm PDT, May 6, Robyn McFadden, Texas

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6:37 pm PDT, May 6, Jennifer Dewitt, West Virginia

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6:31 pm PDT, May 6, Tracey Messercola, New York

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6:30 pm PDT, May 6, Clo Gutierrez, California

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6:29 pm PDT, May 6, Pamela Mendoza, Florida
This is sad. I know we have enough enough food around the world to feed every one around the world. I think if they do not bring the cost down. It is only going to get worse, and people by will be dying worse that now. How can these governments around the world watch this happen. Something has to give, or there will be know one here on this poor planet. This is what is yet to come, every where.

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6:26 pm PDT, May 6, Kat Ferrara, New Jersey

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6:09 pm PDT, May 6, Merrilyn Lewis, Florida

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6:08 pm PDT, May 6, Name not displayed, South Carolina

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6:06 pm PDT, May 6, Julie Hogan, Florida
Thousands of people will starve because they can't afford to pay such high costs of foods. Thank you!

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6:01 pm PDT, May 6, Name not displayed, North Carolina
Food for ALL!!!! Hunger is NOT acceptable! With all the technology, etc. we have today....HUNGER IS NOT AN OPTION! DO SOMETHING!

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5:59 pm PDT, May 6, Tonya Hyde, Washington

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5:44 pm PDT, May 6, Dalia Hettfield, California

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5:42 pm PDT, May 6, Name not displayed, Vermont
Please help with both emergency help and to avert this kind of crisis in the future. It is a matter of world peace, as well as simple humanity. thank you-

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5:37 pm PDT, May 6, Katherine Myskowski, California

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5:30 pm PDT, May 6, Wayne Adams, Wisconsin
HELP, Please.

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4:24 pm PDT, May 6, Louise Lanham, Texas
Having enough to eat is a basic human right.

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