Wheat Crop Failures Could be Total

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As if we didn't have it bad enough with the rice shortages and the rise in oil prices. Now we have the real possibility that the worlds wheat will die off because of a fungus.

We are going to see a massive die off of humanity in the next decade.

I'm going to guess that it was engineered by Monsanto in order to push for their genetically altered and controlled crops are used world wide.

Wheat Crop Failures Could be Total, Experts Warn

On top of record-breaking rice prices and corn through the roof on ethanol demand, wheat is now rusting in the fields across Africa.

Officials fear near total crop losses, and the fungus, known as Ug99, is spreading.

Wheat prices have been soaring this week on top of already high prices, and futures contracts spiked, too, on panic buying.

Experts fear the cost of bread could soon follow the path of rice, the price of which has triggered riots in some countries and prompted countries to cut off exports.
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Losses in Africa are already at 70 percent of the crop, Kotok said.

"The economic losses expected from this fungus are now in the many billions and growing. Worse, there is an intensifying fear of exacerbated food shortages in poor and emerging countries of the world,” Kotok told investors in a research note.

"The ramifications are serious. Food rioting continues to expand around the world. We saw the most recent in Johannesburg.

"So far this unrest has been directed at rising prices. Actual shortages are still to come.”

Last month, scientists met in the Middle East to determine measures to track the progress of "Ug99,” which was first discovered in 1999 in Uganda.
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According to the Food and Agriculture Office (FAO) of the United Nations, approximately a quarter of the world’s global wheat harvest is currently threatened by the fungus.

Meanwhile, global wheat stocks are at lows not seen in half a century, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Scientists fear that the spores could spread on the wind and reach the U.S. and Canada or Europe.

"It will take five to eight years to genetically engineer a resistance,” said Kotok. "In the interim, U.S. agriculture faces higher risk.”
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Do you hate your bellybutton Orby? It's a sign of your weakness of not being a genetically engineered person that had no need for an umbilical cord. You must resent your parents for giving birth to you during a primitive age of mankind every time you look down in the shower.
 
SharpShooter said:
I live in Kansas. We're not gonna run out of wheat. The end.
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www.uswheat.org said:
Leading the world in wheat exports
In marketing year 2005/06, the U.S. produced 57 million metric tons of wheat. The American public used over 31 MMT and 27.5 MMT was exported .

While the U.S. exports more wheat than any other country, our market share in global trade is 24%, evidence that the U.S. wheat industry has strong competition.
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FUCK WE'RE DOOMED
 
 
Xcursion said:
Do you hate your bellybutton Orby? It's a sign of your weakness of not being a genetically engineered person that had no need for an umbilical cord. You must resent your parents for giving birth to you during a primitive age of mankind every time you look down in the shower.
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I think he's sad when he looks down, but for a different reason.
 
considering how many people orbital puts on ignore (and the fact that he has not posted since the original post), I'm wondering if he thinks nobody has replied to this thread yet.
 
Hopefully Orbital will die in the next decade.... One less crazy crazy to come up with this shit.
 
As said in article, it will take 5 to 8 years to develop a resistance, which kinda disproves your assumption that the human race will be killed off in the next decade.

Just because of the 2012 scare, YOU don't need to hop on the scare bus with these assumptions.

Thats fucked up shit though... thats a lot of wheat ;\
 
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