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

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 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.

In his best-selling 2001 book Fast Food Nation, investigative journalist Eric Schlosser leveled a broad, socioeconomic critique against the fast food industry, documenting how fast food rose from small, family-run businesses ( like the McDonald brothers ' burger joint ) into large, multinational corporate juggernauts whose economies of scale radically transformed agriculture, meat processing, and labor markets in the late twentieth century.

Pyke rose to prominence as a young food researcher working for the wartime Minister of Food, Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton.

* Wright, F. A., " The Food of the Gods ", The Classical Review 31. 1, ( February 1917: 4 – 6 ).

* Cold Food Festival, held on April 4 if it is a Leap Year ( China ); and its related observances:

* 1976 – Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs.

Nearly one million Yum !, KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver's and A & W All American Food employees, franchisees and their families volunteered close to 4 million hours to aid hunger relief efforts in communities worldwide, while helping to raise $ 16 million throughout the World Hunger Relief Week initiative for the World Food Programme and other hunger relief agencies around the world.

* March 4 – The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then to screen all blood donations in the United States.

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) recommends freezing at − 35 ° C (− 31 ° F ) for 15 hours, or at − 20 ° C (− 4 ° F ) for 7 days.

* Food subsidies by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, effective May 4, 1947

the established specifications for identity, purity, strength, and composition and has been manufactured, packaged, labeled, and held under conditions to prevent adulteration under section 402 ( a )( 1 ), ( a )( 2 ), ( a )( 3 ), and ( a )( 4 ) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act ".

This restaurant and amusement complex alongside Highway 50 was torn down in 2002 and is now a Food 4 Less shopping center.

Food and beverage stores ( 4 %)

The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture was open to accession a year after adoption and once closed to signatures ( Article 27 ), i. e., on 4 November 2002.

The Food and Drug Administration approves of irradiation of spinach leaves up to 4. 0 kilograys ; however, using radiation to sanitize spinach is of concern because it may deplete the leaves of their nutritional value.

Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code-Standard 2. 4. 2-Edible Oil Spreads requires that edible oil spreads and table margarine must contain no less than 55 μg / kg of vitamin D.

* The first segment, the labeler code, is 4 or 5 digits long and assigned by the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) upon submission of a Labeler Code Request.

In the 1980s he was a regular broadcaster for the BBC, including the BBC Radio 4 science series Spectrum ; he wrote and presented The Food Connection ; he made one-off documentaries and guest appearances.

The U. S. Food and Drug Administration, Public Health Agency of Canada and UK recommended amount of folic acid for women of childbearing age and women planning to become pregnant is at least 0. 4 mg / day of folic acid from at least three months before conception, and continued for the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.

* Product-type 4: Food and feed area disinfectants

They are weighted this way: Housing: 41. 4 %, Food and Beverage: 17. 4 %, Transport: 17. 0 %, Medical Care: 6. 9 %, Other: 6. 9 %, Apparel: 6. 0 %, Entertainment: 4. 4 %.

On May 31, 2011 Priszm sold 204 stores in Ontario & British Columbia along with 4 stores in Quebec to Soul Restaurants Canada Inc. who owns Soul Food Group of the United Kingdom.

Owned by Grinner's Food Systems Limited, there are currently 23 locations in Atlantic Canada, and 4 in Ontario.