A fat man in a US flag T-shirt. Archival photoMOSCOW, 25 Jun. The rising tide of hunger in the US is not a temporary problem, but an enduring reality. This opinion was expressed in an article for Bloomberg by columnist Amanda Little. As the economic situation worsens, it becomes more and more difficult for an increasing number of people to provide their families with food. “Last year, one in six Americans relied on food banks to survive—53 million compared to 40 million before the pandemic. Now that the pandemic is waning, the number of hungry Americans is rising again. Food prices have jumped 12% over the last year is the sharpest increase since 1979,” she writes. At the same time, the author of the publication notes, financial instability, disruptions in supply chains and a reduction in grain imports will continue for the foreseeable future. However, writes Little, in the United States, many conservative lawmakers still consider hunger to be a purely individual problem, which the government is not obliged to correct. «The search for immediate and long-term solutions must become a moral imperative that goes beyond party lines,» she concludes.Russia is required to feed the whole world for free The UN has repeatedly stated the threat of a food crisis due to grain shortages, the West accused Russia of counteracting the supply of Ukrainian grain to world markets, Moscow categorically rejected such accusations. At the same time, the Kyiv authorities themselves created many obstacles to the export of grain for export: in addition to the revealed arson of grain in the Mariupol port, Ukrainian troops carried out mining of the Black Sea, which does not allow grain to be transported to world markets by ships. Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that there are no problems with the export of grain from Ukraine, and official Moscow does not interfere with this. If Ukraine clears the ports, ships with grain will be able to leave without any problems, he said. The United States and the European Union, which made blunders with the imposition of sanctions on fertilizers against Russia, should think about the answer to the millions of starving people that may appear, the press said earlier Presidential Secretary Dmitry Peskov in an interview with RIA Novosti. And according to Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk, the economic war against Russia did not go according to the plan of those who unleashed it. Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, speaking about the consequences of the sanctions, said that they would lead to a full-fledged international food crisis with the prospect of starvation in some countries.
