Water Shortages Cause Saudis to Cease Grain Production

This is disturbing news, pretty much as the heading states. It's the implications that are worrying.

"growing national interdependencies will increase international tensions. Some might assume that as the need for a reprioritisation of basic food needs become more pronounced, the world will adjust its production systems to suit (think ‘the invisible hand of the market’) — i.e. that people will begin to reduce the strain by moving away from meat based diets, for example. But, I would venture to say that the more likely scenario is that those who can afford to continue with the lifestyle they now have, will do so, and those that cannot afford to outbid wealthy nations like Saudi Arabia, the U.S., China, etc., will simply go without. We’re seeing this already with food, oil, and climate change issues. People on the bottom rungs of the ladder are falling off while the wealthy continue lifestyles of excess."

Sorry to keep banging on about this, but responsible Christian global citizenship in a world such as the one outlined in the article that the quote is taken from,
Water Shortages Cause Saudis to Cease Grain Production, Celsias, must mean we change our diets to eat much less meat. Ronald Sider said it in the 70's and it's still true. Meat is a justice issue, and now it's also an environmental one too.