Grain prices shoot up as a result of ethanol and biofuels or demand in China or global warming, but the price of food is still cheap relative to other things we take for granted like cell phones, computers and cars, argues Wayne Robertson (Now Magazine).

We can't seem to resist a deal and this leads to bad production choices that literally end up smacking us in the face.

I love Chocolate, especially, when it is free of child labour, fingers, and chemicals [i.e. Fair Trade]. Here is a little (ok a lot of) background information on where chocolate comes from and how it is processed.

Alberto García died in February in his rural village of San Matías Cuijingo, Juchitepec, Mexico. He was 39, and is survived by his wife Mirabel and three children. He had fallen ill in May 2006 while working in a Simcoe, Ont., greenhouse under the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (CSAWP).

Alberto and Maribel returned to Mexico in December, 2006, when his visa and right to medical coverage in Canada expired. They were reunited with their three young children who had stayed in Maribel's mother's care during their absence.

In Mexico he found it difficult to afford costly cancer treatments and eventually his condition deteriorated again. (Justicia for migrant workers)