freecounterpoint: Let them eat sashimi

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Let them eat sashimi

6 comments:

My Frontier Thesis said...: Their shortages mean wheat is sold at record highs for farmers in Dakota, Nebraska and throughout the Plains. Last summer-autumn, Grandma said she's never been offered (or the share-croppers have never been offered) so much for wheat and barley since she can remember (and she's 92). I heard it's incredibly expensive for a brewskie in Japan, too.; 4/22/2008 9:36 AM
Tecumseh said...: And, let's not forget: a huge amount of cropland has switched to growing maize for ethanol, to satisfy the AlGorean appetite for "green" stuff. Let them eat bark, eh?; 4/22/2008 9:46 AM
My Frontier Thesis said...: AI: I already went over this and need to reiterate that growing maize for biofuel isn't some AlGore conspiracy. It's been going on for at least 8 years. Get this: a friend of mine who happens to be the editor of what is arguably the MOST CONSERVATIVE PUBLICATION on the upper Plains first told me of the wonders of biofuel and corn 8 years ago. There are problems with it (as with everything), but if it can take some of our reliance off OPEC and Venezuela, I'm all for it.; 4/22/2008 11:50 AM
Tecumseh said...: I dunno -- the whole idea makes me queasy, irrespective of right/left, AlGore or not AlGore. God meant corn to be eaten, not burned, and that's that.; 4/22/2008 4:40 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Does God tell you what to do with corn on a regular basis, AI? What else is the Divine telling you? Let us know, please.; 4/22/2008 5:39 PM
Tecumseh said...: I won't bite into the transparent religion-bashing bait, MFT. My comment stands, as is. More here:

The production of biofuels also needs to be urgently re-examined, Brown said. He acknowledged that Britain this month introduced targets aimed at producing 5 percent of transport fuel from biofuels by 2010, but said his government and others should review their policies.
Production of biofuel leads to the destruction of forests and takes up land available to grow crops for food.

You don't say!

Citizens in the West, China and India must realize that the meat on their plate and biofuels in their expensive cars carry a cost for those in the developing world, Evans said. Sheeran believes many already understand the impact. "Much of the world is waking up to the fact that food does not spontaneously appear on grocery store shelves," she said.

You don't say!; 4/22/2008 10:17 PM

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