Yes, it's very interesting the sudden "food crisis" showing up on the mainstream news.
Oddly.... I go to the grocery store, and it is still completely full of every concievable type of food, and while prices are going up, they are still quite cheap. Is the US not feeling the effects of this, sucking all the resources from other countries? We do it with everything else... so it would not surprise me. And, disturbingly, more and more of the food is from overseas. Alot of the frozen fish was from China... How can the carbon and energy expenditure to ship frozen fish from china to colorado be justified, and a fillet still costs less than $2? Z On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Chip Mefford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find it rather interesting, where some of us have > been watching for a 'food shortage' for quite some time, > that the concept has burst upon the consciousness of > the US in what seems to be a remarkably short period > of time. > > It's all the water cooler buzz these days, here in the > US. > > Being a heavy skeptic, -with an admittedly cynical bent- > I'm given to ponder, 'Who benefits?' > > Well, here you go: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/business/21crop.html?_r=1&oref=slogin > > Excerpt from the article: > > (again, without permission, but hopefully within > 'fair use' ) > > ""I think it's pretty clear that price and supply concerns have people > thinking a little bit differently today," said Steve Mercer, a spokesman > for U.S. Wheat Associates, a federally supported cooperative that > promotes American wheat abroad. > > The group, which once cautioned farmers about growing biotech wheat, is > working to get seed companies to restart development of genetically > modified wheat and to get foreign buyers to accept it. > > Even in Europe, where opposition to what the Europeans call Frankenfoods > has been fiercest, some prominent government officials and business > executives are calling for faster approvals of imports of genetically > modified crops. They are responding in part to complaints from livestock > producers, who say they might suffer a critical shortage of feed if > imports are not accelerated. " > > So, there you have it. > > Shortage? what shortage? > > agenda to push through gm by appealing to broad scale panick? > Sure, why not? > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
