‘Hunger makes people eat neighbours!’ Jeremy Clarkson’s cannibalism fears amid food crisis

express.co.uk:

Jeremy Clarkson, 62, has a “general sense that everything will be all right in the end”, but when it comes to the food shortage crisis, he feels very differently.

On Sunday, The Grand Tour host described how the current food shortage crisis may leave people desperately hungry.Despite his optimism regarding many things, including the climate crisis, he can’t shake his fears concerning the increasing costs and lack of food supplies.He wrote in his latest column, addressing the UK's cost of living crisis: “...it now costs a million pounds to heat your house and £20,000 to cook a lamb chop.“I know it, too, because chemical fertiliser has gone from about £250 a tonne last year to about £1,000 a tonne now.”With the cost of fertiliser increasing, the car enthusiast warned farmers will resort to using less fertiliser which, in turn, will lead to a shortage in crops.Clarkson's Farm star Jeremy continued, warning that humans can survive without some things, but food is not one of them.He said: “Politicians say they are ‘monitoring the situation’, which means they aren’t doing anything at all, but one day they will have to because while people can live without heat or clothing or even sex, they cannot live without food.“Hunger makes people eat their neighbours,” he wrote, for his The Sunday Times column.There is a direct link between the war in Ukraine and food shortages, since produce cannot be exported due to a lack of means to transport it via the sea.Access to the sea has been blocked due to the war.Jeremy explained: “This Ukraine business, however, is causing me to have a few chin-scratching moments of despair.“I don’t pretend to be an expert in geopolitics any more than I pretend to be a farmer, but I really think the world.