A Worsening Food Crisis

The Washington Post
Sunday, April 20, 2008; Page B06

This article talks about how the food prices have been rising over the past three years. He says this increase has put close to 30 countries on the verge of a food crisis because it is more expensive to buy food. The author then starts talking about how the new move towards biofuels is making the price of food rise even more.

Although the author uses facts and doesn't use loaded words, I was not very convinced by his argument. It lacked stories to back up his claim. He focused on how to get these countries money to buy food instead of trying to get these countries money for technology so they could produce their own. He spent a lot of the article talking about the negative effect of biofuel on the food supply; however, the last sentence of the few paragraphs on this was saying how only about 10-15 percent of the food shortage issue could be attributed to biofuels. I feel there were much better ways he could have gained the attention of the audience and presented the information, such as not focusing as much on biofuels.