This is a response to comments on The Struggling Masses: World Hunger and What I Should Do About It.

"Around the world many cultures eat more healthy than do Americans." -- Michael

This evening I read comments on BBC's Africa website by Africans discussing their first-hand encounter with the so-called food price crisis. We're barely aware of it in the west, but systemic causes like oil shortage, increasing affluence (i.e. consumption) in Asia, and use of crops for biofuel has led to world-wide food shortage.