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““The age of cheap food is over,” predicts Knuckman, noting that this can’t be such a bad thing for US citizens. “Most Americans eat too much, anyway.” For his fellow Americans, who spend 13 percent of their disposable income on food, the price hike may be an annoyance. But for the world’s poor, who are forced to spend 70 percent of their meager budgets on food, it’s life-threatening.”

(via rumagin)

Except that for the 15 per cent of US households which are food insecure, increases in food prices are more than “annoying.” And it’s this 15 per cent, along with other poor Americans, that eat “too much” - or, rather, too much processed carbohydrates and fats, the cheapest foods that will make up an even larger proportion of their diet as agricultural prices rise.