They Don't Need It

After the Middle East War of 1973, the expression heard was , "let's go and take the oil, they don't need it, we do."
In the Globe and Mail at
"http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040522/FAMINE22//?query=GRAIN+HARVEST
the following was quoted, "The larder is almost bare

After four consecutive meagre harvests, the result of heat waves, droughts and pestilence,the world's stockpile of grain is perilously low. Is it a harbinger of 'gastronomical Armageddon?' MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT reports."

Will we again hear "they don't need it, we do"? Except the need will now be food, not oil. Will Fire-power brutalise the world for their food stores, and enslave them so they will produce more?