Reply #45: There's a huge contradiction in this article that suggests fear mongering

[HamdenRice]

On the one hand, it paints a picture of increasing scarcity -- people to poor to purchase food, and hence food riots.

On the other hand, it says that the problem is because as people's incomes grow they want more meat and hence more grain is diverted to animal feed.

How can people be both too poor to buy food, and so rich that their demand for meat is driving up food prices?

In other words, the real issue isn't scarcity -- it's income inequality.

The new middle classes of Asia are literally bidding the grain out of the mouths of the poor to feed to the animals that they are increasingly eating.

It's a much more complicated story than just scarcity.