Food prices a serious issue...

We've documented the issue of rising food costs before, and here's another article describing the global crisis we're facing now with the affects of food prices on developing countries. According to this article, this is the first global food crisis that the world has seen since World War II. It's kinda sad that the rich countries need for fuels (oil and ethanol) are causing mass hunger in the poorer nations. Quite scary and quite sad...