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Rice Is the New Oil

Rising food prices threaten a more serious global crisis

By Katherine Thompson,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 27, 2008 3:31 PM CDT

(Newser) – Even as the burgeoning price of oil slaps consumers at the pump, a darker global market crisis looms as rising commodities prices compound the pressures of poverty worldwide. The UN has said that spiking food prices have started "a silent tsunami threatening to plunge...   Read full story »

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