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yarious reasonS for the recent shortage of food on the world
There are
market。 One factor isS the extended drought* jn Australia,a major food
exporter, This is almost certainly related to global warming. Another factor
is the diversion of American corn and soybeans to biofuel production.。 Im 2007.
over a quarter of US corn and a fifth of US soybeans were used for biofuels
These trends coincided with an increase in the demand for food in China anq
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India,ldue to economic growth, changing diets and increasing population。 At the
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same time, farmland in many countries is being lost to urban development and
Teson 1ana the amount of food which is produced is declining due to water
shortages and, in China's case, to air and water pollution.
Experts are now predicting a major global food crisis. Japan would
seriously suffer from this problem when it comes to wheat and SMG
which it depends heavily on imports to meet its needs. At the same tme
380.000 hectares of farmland are currently unused, due to an earlier program
aimed at reducing rice surpluses. If these could be cultivated, they could help
increase Japan's food security.
Shortages are not the only concern with regard to food. ]apanese
consumerSs also have to worry about the safety of the food they buy。 Many
In 2007.a number of people
were sickened by gyoz2 dumplings imported from China that were contaminated*
mwith a banned pesticide. The mass media then drew attention to the fact that
imports contain 則egal pesticides and food additives
owing to staff shortages, only one tenth of all imported food was being inspected
py quarantine oficers* among Which processed foods were not included。 The
discovery』 in imported American beef of a material banned because of its ink t
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