As the title of this post indicates, confirmation bias may well be getting the better of me, but the main thesis of this Foreign Policy article by Annia Ciezadlo coincides with the findings of the empirical work I have been doing recently:
Published March 24, 2011
Misleading and Mistaken Claims About Food Prices in the HuffPo
Knowing how a very small fraction of the actual price we pay for food in this country is actually due to the cost of food itself, I was intrigued by a HuffPo article this week with the somewhat sensationalist title of “Rising Food Prices Intensify Poverty, Hunger In US And World,” which began as follows: