LIKE national defence, securing foodstuff supplies usually counts as a core task of authority. Hence, as prices surge, food security is rising to the top of the political agenda. Or so it sounds.On January 24th the British authority’s chief scientific officer said that “the case for urgent action in the global food system is now compelling.” He was presenting a report from hundreds of scientists that concluded with “a stark warning for both current and future decision-makers on the consequences of inaction-food production and the foodstuff system must assume a much higher priority in political agendas across the world.”Politicians say they are listening. “If we don’t do anything,” France’s president Nicolas Sarkozy said on the similar day, “we run the risk of food riots in the poorest countries and a very unfavourable effect on global economic growth.”Companies are attentive, too. At the Davos gathering of the self-proclaimed great and good a few days later, a score of firms, including...
3/15/2011
Economist Article - "The Politics of Food: Hungry for Votes"
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Economist Article - "The Politics of Food: Hungry for Votes"
3/14/2011
Renaissance Humanism
This essay is about how The Humanism Renaissance has influenced our country from as early as 1400. A piece of art that help display these values and ideas would be Adriaen de Vries and his statue of Apollo. “Humanism is the term generally applied to the predominant social philosophy and intellectual and literary currents of the period from 1400 to 1650”. ( Kries)The Humanism Renaissance would be a period where the people wanted things to be their way. The people of the time felt that it was time for a change that the people needed to be able to speak for themselves and to be heard on what was important to them. So the zeal and increase of world pleasure began. “Expansion of trade, growth of prosperity and luxury, and widening social contacts generated interest in worldly pleasures, in spite of formal allegiance to ascetic Christian doctrine.” (Kries)When you start researching this topic you find that it all really started with people wanting to say no to those who had been...