Food shortages and rapidly inflating prices were a fact of life for as much as a century before the plague.

Food prices rose 4 % in the United States in 2007, the highest increase since 1990, and are expected to climb as much again in 2008.

Food prices are rising, wealthier Asian consumers are westernizing their diets, and farmers and nations of the third world are struggling to keep up the pace.

Food prices in the black market continued to rise sharply, which was a major problem for the unemployed worker families.

Food supply, prices, and in the end the fear of starvation became emotional political issues between farmers in the countryside and industrial workers in the urban areas.

Food prices were stabilised in December 1939, initially as temporary measure, but made permanent in August 1940, while both milk and meals were provided at subsidised prices, or free in those cases of real need.

Food shortages sent prices through the ceiling.

Benjamin Zycher, former Senior Fellow at Manhattan Institute's Center for Medical Progress, opposes allowing the federal government to negotiate prices in the Medicare Part D prescription drug program, and argues that patients and their doctors should make their own decisions to choose drugs like Vioxx, rather than having the U. S. Food and Drug Administration decide on the basis of " bureaucratized ... scientific study ".

Food was scarce in Sydney at that time and prices were being driven up, yet pigs were plentiful in the Society Islands and King could contract with Bass at 6 pence a pound where he'd been paying a shilling ( 12 pence ) previously.

By 1918, there were controls over almost all aspects of farming ; the Food Controller bought all essential food supplies and the Corn Production Act guaranteed cereal prices.

The Ministry of Food became the sole buyer and importer of food and regulated prices, guaranteeing farmers prices and markets for their produce.

In a report published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ), a successful betel farm in Sri Lanka can provide a supplemental income to a farmer by providing six days of work every six months and net income when the leaf prices are attractive.

Food imports must not displace local production nor depress prices.

According to the FAO ( Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ), urban poor consumers spend between 60 and 80 percent of their income on food, making them very vulnerable to higher food prices.

Food prices rose astronomically, and small boys would go to the former wheat market place in search of a few grains on the ground, which they would eagerly put in their mouths when found.

Food prices increased by 300 %.

Food Lion is the namesake concept for Food Lion LLC and is centered around building a " neighborly and convenient " supermarket for its customers featuring " extra low prices " on name brand and private label merchandise.

Bottom Dollar Food is Food Lion's discount grocery model that focuses on offering a limited-selection of both national brands and private label products at low prices in an " upbeat " shopping environment.

The common theme to these stores appears to be that they are all older stores which Food Lion has apparently determined are located in markets small enough to make enlarging or opening a new store unprofitable, but which with a different brand name to differentiate them from Food Lion so that the prices and selection can be different from a standard Food Lion store and can still be profitably run without remodeling.

For Mrs. Shaefer -- who had been given a clean bill of health by her own physician at the time she visited Lee -- and her friend were agents for the California Pure Food and Drug Inspection Bureau.

13 games were announced for the system's launch, including Ms. Pac-Man, Pole Position II, Centipede, Joust, Dig Dug, Desert Falcon, Robotron: 2084, Galaga, Xevious, Food Fight, Ballblazer, Rescue on Fractalus !, and Track and Field.

According to United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization the term bean should include only species of Phaseolus ; however, a strict consensus definition has proven difficult because in the past, several species such as Vigna ( angularis ( azuki bean ), mungo ( black gram ), radiata ( mung bean ), aconitifolia ( moth bean )) were classified as Phaseolus and later reclassified.

Food in America consisted of traditions that were adapted from England, but up until the end of this century, the presence of new ingredients along with the contact between diverse ethnic groups influenced experimentation.

Food, horses and other goods flooded into the city, and thousands of slaves from West Africa were transported to the island to work on the undermanned sugar plantations.

The Slow Food movement has sought in some countries to add an edible school yard and garden classrooms to schools, e. g. in Fergus, Ontario, where these were added to a public school to augment the kitchen classroom.

Food writer Alan Davidson suggests that the people of Ancient Romans were the first known to have made products of the haggis type.

Food for the white supervisors consisted of " tinned food of various kinds, also bread, rice, fowls, pork, goat, and goat's milk ", but vegetables were hard to come by.

Food shortages were severe, especially in the harsh winter of 1946 – 1947.

A lawsuit was filed in 1907 by the Moxie Nerve Food Company of New England against the Modox Company and others, alleging that they had copied the ingredients of Moxie and were using the name " Modox ," which closely resembled " Moxie ," and were infringing upon patents and trademarks.

Food chains, such as Pizza Hut, have come under criticism for the high salt content of some of their meals, which were found to contain more than twice the daily recommended amount of salt for an adult.

Food rations and free shoes were given out, pensions were increased, and ( for some time ) free Saturdays were introduced.

Food catering establishments which may be described as restaurants were known since the 11th century in Kaifeng, China's northern capital during the first half of the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ).

Food and water reserves were taxed by the sudden influx of refugees.

Silver solutions were approved in the 1920s by the US Food and Drug Administration for use as antibacterial agents.

After World War II, Newforge Foods, part of the Fitch Lovell group, were awarded the license to produce the product in the UK ( doing so at its Gateacre factory, Liverpool ), where it stayed until production switched to the Danish Crown Group ( owners of the Tulip Food Company ) in 1998, forcing the closure of the Liverpool factory and the loss of 140 jobs.

Food was also important ; early Apollo crews complained about its quality, and a NASA volunteer found living on the Apollo food for four days on Earth to be intolerable ; its taste and composition, in the form of cubes and squeeze tubes, were unpleasant.

Infant, child, and maternity services were expanded, while the Official Food Policy Committee ( chaired by the deputy PM and Labour leader Clement Attlee ) approved grants of fuel and subsidised milk to mothers and to children under the age of five in June 1940.

Andy Ross and Food owner David Balfe were convinced Blur's best course of action was to continue drawing influence from the Madchester genre.

* March 19 – The United Nations launches a political corruption investigation due to the scandal over its Iraqi Oil for Food program.

Food shortages in a population are caused either by a lack of food or by difficulties in food distribution ; it may be worsened by natural climate fluctuations and by extreme political conditions related to oppressive government or warfare.

As for Devonshire and his allies, they put their political efforts into the Free Food League which included a sizeable minority of Conservative Members of Parliament ( MPs ) ( and, for a few months, Conservative MP Winston Churchill before he too defected to the Liberals in 1904 ).

The core of the Food Justice movement is the belief that what is lacking is not food, but the political will to fairly distribute food regardless of the recipient ’ s ability to pay.

In July 2006 the Union of Concerned Scientists ( UCS ) released survey results that demonstrate pervasive political influence of science at the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ).

He became a political advisor to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Michael Jopling for two years from 1984.

Food security ’ s inattention to the political economy of the corporate food regime blinds it to the adverse effects of that regime, notably the widespread dispossession of small producers and global ecological degradation.

Strachey chose an old political colleague, Leslie Plummer, to be Chairman of the Overseas Food Corporation.

Food Not Bombs and a church for the homeless called First Vagabonds Church of God sued the city over the ordinance on the grounds that serving food is first amendment-protected political speech and religious activity.

Besides collecting and distributing food for free, many chapters of Food Not Bombs are involved in community anti-poverty, anti-war, and pro-immigrant organizing, as well as other political causes related to social justice.

In Dole Food Co. v. Patrickson, 538 U. S. 468 ( 2003 ), the Supreme Court determined that in order for a government owned corporation to qualify as a Foreign State under the FSIA because a majority of its " shares or other ownership interest " are owned by a foreign state or political subdivision, the Foreign State must directly own a majority of the corporation's shares.

The results of the survey were passed along to Food Lion, Armada Hoffler ( a Virginia Beach-based commercial real estate and construction company ), and local and state political leaders.

This resulted in the adoption of the Rome Declaration on World Food Security in which member states stated to " pledge our political will and our common and national commitment to achieving food security for all and to an ongoing effort to eradicate hunger in all countries, with an immediate view to reducing the number of undernourished people to half their present level no later than 2015.

In 2002, he was appointed as the Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food under the new political appointee system.

This may lead to political interference in the decision, for example the decision made over hemp seed, when the Food Standards scientists recommended that hemp seed be allowed for sale, but the ministers vetoed this because they didn't want to appear soft on drugs.

Food prices were a political issue in that year's presidential race and a few chains experimented with a low cost no frills format.

Secretary for Food and Health York Chow Yat-ngok rebuffed claims of political oppression by saying the authority was merely enforcing the law after receiving complaints.

Buddhist, Hindu, and neopagan examples exist, and a number of non-religious examples have proliferated from political, technical and other fields including the following variations: 666, Alien, Angler, Atheist, Bite-Me, Blow-Me, Budda, Card Shark, Cat, Cthulhu, Cyber Shark, Darwin, Dead Fish, Devil, Dinner, DNA, Dog, Enigma, Evolve, Fish Food, Fishn ', Flying Spagehetti Monster, Freud, Geflite, Heathen, Hindu, Hooked Fish, Ixnay, Jeebus, Jesus ( w / feet ), Jesus Is Borg, Lawyer, Lutefisk, N ' Chips, Pagan, Phish, Pirate, Prozac, Punk, Randi, Rasta, Reality Bites, Robot, Sales, Satan, Sci-Fi, Science, Scuba, Sinner, Ske? tic, Surfer, Sushi, Thor, Trek, Tuna, Vampyre, Veg, Viagra, Wiccan, Xanax, and Yoda.