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 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 were a political issue in the 1912 presidential election ; some chains experimented with a no-frills format.

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.

In December 2007, FAO launched its Initiative on Soaring Food Prices to help small producers raise their output and earn more.

The implementation of the UN's Oil for Food program in December 1996 has helped improve economic conditions.

The band completed their second album Modern Life Is Rubbish in December 1992, but Food Records said the album required more potential hit singles and asked them to return to the studio for a second time.

This request for withdrawal of pork products was confirmed in a press release by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland on December 6.

In December 2008, StemCells Inc., a biotech company in Palo Alto, received clearance from the U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) to conduct Phase I clinical trials in PMD to assess the safety of transplanting human neural stem cells as a potential treatment for PMD.

Annual activities include the Southern 80 waterski race ( February ) the Jazz, Food and Wine Festival ( February ) the Rotary Steam Horse and Vintage Rally ( June ) and the Red Cross Murray Marathon ( December ).

From 2003 he chaired the Environmental Audit Select Committee, before rejoining the Shadow Cabinet under David Cameron in December 2005 as Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

" However, the FDA determined in December 2008 that the rTMS device was sufficiently similar to existing devices that did not require a premarket approval application and allowed the device to be marketed in accordance with Section 510 ( k ) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act for " the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder in adult patients who have failed to achieve satisfactory improvement from one prior antidepressant medication at or above the minimal effective dose and duration in the current episode ".

The band completed their second album Modern Life Is Rubbish in December 1992, but Food Records said the album required more potential hit singles and asked them to return to the studio for a second time.

For instance, Nestlé ’ s three factories in Japan ( Himeji factory: Hyōgo Prefecture, Shimada factory: Shizuoka Prefecture and Kasumigaura factory: Ibaraki Prefecture ) have each obtained ISO standard certifications: ISO14001, ISO 22000 ( Food Safety Management Systems ) and OHSAS 18001 as of the end of December, 2008.

Dionne Warwick ( born Marie Dionne Warwick ; December 12, 1940 ) is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health.

In December 1984, the Australian cochlear implant was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration to be implanted in adults in the United States.

In December 2007, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs ( DEFRA ) announced that the efforts of the surviving members of the Women's Land Army and the Women's Timber Corps would be formally recognised with the presentation of a specially designed commemorative badge.

In December 2008 Grigorieva was named international spokesperson for the fruit bar CheekyChewz manufactured by the Australian company Australian Food Innovators.

Food stores quickly ran out, and a group of 15 men and women attempted to reach California on snowshoes in December, but became disoriented in the mountains before succumbing to starvation and cold.

On 6 December 2008, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland ordered the recall, withdrawal and destruction of all Irish pork products dating back to 1 September, due to the discovery of toxic levels of dioxin in a small percentage of the pig stock.

Michael Woods ( born 8 December 1935 ) is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician, who served in a wide range of cabinet positions, most notably as Minister for Agriculture and Food, Minister for Education and Science and Minister for Health.

As of December 2009, the Food and Drug Administration approved Olade to be put into the market as a non-dietary supplement, meaning anyone with or without diabetes can consume it.

Food relief shipments to Germany had been prohibited by the U. S. until December 1945, since " they might tend to negate the policy of restricting the German standard of living to the average of the surrounding European nations ".

In December 1916, a Ministry of Food was created under the New Ministries & Secretaries Act 1916 and Lord Devonport appointed Food Controller to regulate the supply and consumption of food and to encourage food production.

* December 19-Clozapine is the first drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration for reducing the risk of suicidal behaviour.

To publicize work done by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, and the World Food Programme to help reduce poverty and make agriculture more productive, Ambassador Vasquez accompanied journalists on media tours to Mali in December, 2006 and to Guatemala and Honduras in May, 2007.