文档介绍：Thought for the Day Ifa butterfly flutters its wings, so chaos theory goes, it can cause the path of a tornado to change, and so the reverberations can be felt across the world. In retrospect, it looks as if what was happening to the cost of food in the Middle East a few years ago had just that impact. The frustrations of Tunisian fruitsellers and the seething anger of Egyptians over the price of basic foodstuffs were ignored by the rest of the world then but analysts have since traced them as the roots of the Arab Spring upheavals. Food shortages and high prices have had consequences throughout the ages as the history of revolutions reminds us. No wonder that politicians and the United Nations are ing increasingly concerned about rising prices leading toa global food crisis. Drought, the diversion of corn crops into the production of biofuels, the corruption and chaotic distribution of food in some developing nations, all these are shaping plex global food economy. Add in certain speculators and food conglomerates aiming for higher profits, and many aid charities warn that this is a recipe for disaster for the poorest in the developing world. But what's it got to do with the ordinary individual? Isn't something plex asa food crisis just for the politicians and the UN to sort out? Morality is surely personal, as isa relationship with God, and one's religious beliefs stretch as