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"  If you don&amp;#039;t already use non-dairy creamer or soymilk in your coffee you soon may start considering it. The price of a pint of milk is on the rise. Dairy is just the latest item in the long list of food items whose costs continue to rise to record levels. The UN has announced that the global food price index is higher than it was in 2008 when it resulted in riots in dozens of countries. The rise has been primarily due to bad weather in crop-growing areas. There have be droughts in Russia, Ukraine and Argentina while Pakistan and Australia have been suffering from flooding. It is not just the human population that is suffering from the rise in food costs. The rise in feed costs due to crop failures has caused farmers to switch to a cheaper feed like grass and silage. This diet has proven to be not as effective at encouraging milk production as the premium feed. David Handley, a chairman of Farmers for Action who compared the change in feed to putting &amp;quot;ordinary four-star petrol in a Formula 1 car,&amp;quot; has estimated that it could result in a loss of 2,000 to 3,000 liters per year per cow. The reduced yield will drive up the price of not only milk but also of cheese. The rise in food costs may not be as readily felt in the U.S. as it is and will continue to be in developing countries like China, India and Russia, which have been experiencing a rise in demand for food, and countries that cannot grown their own grains and rely on imports. The USDA is predicting United States grocery prices to rise only two- to three-percent in contrast to the eighteen-percent that India is experiencing. Egypt&amp;#039;s food prices have risen seventeen-percent, which has contributed to the country&amp;#039;s current state of unrest. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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