A recent article in the Washington Post talks about the global food crisis. The recent economic crisis has pushed this out of the headlines, but the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation has recently warned of “a looming disaster next year if countries do not make food security a top priority.”

The economic crisis has made a number of countries reneg on their promises of aid to farmers in developing countries. A number of countries, especially China, have also imposed a system of tarifs to make it very difficult to export staples food products and fertilizers, so as not to deplete their own food reserves. This in turn limits the amount of food farmers in poorer nations can afford to grow.

On June 29, 2009, Ceres will be conjunct Saturn in Virgo. Ceres is the asteroid that rules the harvest. Virgo rules nutrition. Put Saturn into the equation, and you can see some lack and hardship going on. Moreover on this same day, there is a conjunction of Neptune and Jupiter, with Chiron close by in the sign of Aquarius. Aquarius rules globalisation, while Neptune rules oil. Chiron in the mix emphasises the fact that we can no longer turn a blind eye to these problems and must deal with them once an for all. Jupiter has a tendency to blow up whatever it touches.

Put all these things together and there is the possibility of a perfect storm relating to the interconnected, globalised network of growing and distributing food.

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