* 1863 – Richmond Bread Riot: Food shortages incite hundreds of angry women to riot in Richmond, Virginia and demand that the Confederate government release emergency supplies.

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

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.

Food shortages sent prices through the ceiling.

Food shortages were so common, that citizens themselves demanded rationing.

Food rationing in England came to an end in the year of publication, but its effect is still felt in the egg shortages that are mentioned in the novel.

Food shortages were a major concern.

Food First dispels the misconception that world hunger is caused by food production shortages, and in fact points the blame to systemic causes such as speculation on the market, investments in large-scale GMO farms that have higher input-costs, and the bio-fuels market.

Food shortages were still a problem in Europe, so the post-tournament banquet featured pea soup, inexpensive fare of the common people.

Facing growing food shortages, the government of Salvador Allende placed Bachelet's father in charge of the Food Distribution Office.

Food shortages of even a relatively short duration can lead to developmental deficiencies in children, with severe and sometimes permanent consequences for their physical and mental development.

To deal with sometimes extreme shortages, the Ministry of Food instituted a system of rationing.

* 22 – 19 BCE, Artaxias II recaptures the throne of Armenia, Riots in Rome, Food shortages in some provinces.

* South Africa announces a R140 million ( USD $ 22 million ) donation to the United Nations World Food Programme ( WFP ) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) to alleviate food shortages in Southern Africa.

* announces a R140 million ( USD $ 22 million ) donation to the United Nations World Food Programme ( WFP ) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) to alleviate food shortages in Southern Africa.

Food shortages brought on by the war increased the demand for the Market's goods.

Food shortages were common before modern agricultural technology and in places that lack them today, such as nitrogen fertilizers, pesticides and irrigation methods.

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.

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.

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.

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

In January 2006, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization warned that 11 million people in Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti and Ethiopia were in danger of starvation due to the combination of severe drought and military conflicts.

Food allergies, and reactions to the venom of stinging insects such as wasps and bees are often associated with these severe reactions.

The same often counts for poverty relief in the form of food aid: Food aid ( unless while during severe drought ) drives small producers in poor countries out of production.

An oral direct thrombin inhibitor, ximelagatran ( Exanta ) was denied approval by the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) in September 2004 and was pulled from the market entirely in February 2006 after reports of severe liver damage and heart attacks.

Ropinirole ( Requip ) was first approved In 2005 by the US Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) to treat moderate to severe Restless Legs Syndrome.

WHO, UNICEF, and the UN World Food Programme recommend community management of severe acute malnutrition with ready-to-use therapeutic foods, which have been shown to cause weight gain in emergency settings.

A request from the Center for Science in the Public Interest ( article titled: " FDA Urged to Improve Labeling of or Ban Carmine Food Coloring ") to require ingredient labels to explicitly state that carmine may cause severe allergic reactions and anaphylactic shock and that it is derived from insects was declined by the FDA.

In October 2007, the United States Food and Drug Administration issued an alert identifying ear candles ( also known as ear cones or auricular candles ) as " dangerous to health when used in the dosage or manner, or with the frequency or duration, prescribed, recommended, or suggested in the labeling thereof " ... " since the use of a lit candle in the proximity of a person's face would carry a high risk of causing potentially severe skin / hair burns and middle ear damage.

The cone snail toxin ziconotide, also known as Prialt, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat severe neuropathic pain.

Xolair received approval by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) in 2003 for treating patients 12 years and older with moderate to severe allergic asthma.