-
Website
http://www.americablog.com/ -
Original page
http://www.americablog.com/2008/07/world-bank-biofuels-forced-food-crisis.html -
Subscribe
All Comments -
Community
-
-
Top Commenters
-
Popular Threads
All Comments
Investigate - Impeach - Indict - Imprison.
A must read by Mike Malloy...
The Tipping Point is the level at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable. It’s that hold-your-breath weightless moment when the car reaches the crest of the roller coaster … just before the screaming plunge into history. I don’t know what will happen … but it doesn’t look good for our team.
The Tipping Point’s moment can only be determined in retrospect but I’ll go out on a limb and say that we approached The Tipping Point’s “Event horizon” on June 5th when the Senate Intelligence Committee released their report stating that Bush, Cheney, and other administration officials lied the United States into war. ABC and CBS didn’t cover the story. NBC spent less than 30 seconds on it.
We hit The Tipping Point dead on four days later. Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 Articles of Impeachment against The Bush Regime and the MainStreamMedia responded with an almost complete news blackout.
http://superbeans.com/rant_06_12_08.htm
As someone who is opposed to the death penalty, I would add execute. I oppose the death penalty because it is savage, barbaric, degrades us as the state to the level of the felon, because it is unfairly applied to minorities, the poor, blue collar, juveniles and mentally ill criminals while the rick, wealthy, powerful, elite and well connected are protected, not only from the death penalty but from prosecution and allowed the pretense that they did nothing wrong except in exceedingly egregious circumstances or if the killer is hated in the community. Look at Edward Kennedy. Does anyone debate that if he were impoverished Black or Hispanic, he would have been prosecuted at least for manslaughter and more likely for 2nd degree murder and especially if his victim were a white girl? Oh, but that's different! Yeah, right. A minority out with a white girl is a crime that is still regarded as punishable by death in far too much of this country.
No, I set aside all my reservations about the death penalty when it comes to deliberately bigoted, hateful, corrupt, vile, evil, barbaric, savage, mass and serial murdering criminals, thieves, liars and international war criminals of the ilk of the members of the current administration ... as well as the entire damn enablers and co-conspirators, accomplices and accessories in Congress, Democrats and Republicans. Better to execute Kucinich and Barbara Lee than to let any of the other criminals escape the justice they fully, well have earned over and over and over again.
Think about it. Why would Bush lie to the UN, the American people, BUT the worst, lie to Congress, (knowing that it’s a Federal offence), invade, conquer and then not find WMD, when all he needed to do was plant the WMD to keep the ‘lie’ viable, so as not to commit a crime?
Please, it’s was bad intelligence and Congress know this.
He will never be impeached!
It is amazing that there are idiots out there, who still want to vote for republicans and want to continue republican failed policies.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087...
Stupidity and starvation. Priceless.
Ethanol is the lease efficient fuel the USA has produced.
He is an embarrassment for us anyway.
I told my husband that I think people would be thrilled if we held the election tomorrow, swore in the new president and hustled him into the white house all within an hour and evicted bush immediately.
But, I did qualify that maybe there might be a day or so between swearing in and rushing the new president into the white house so they have time to fumigate the place after Bush is evicted.
Not a lot of food there either but the opium's nearly free and kills the hunger pangs.
Aghan official says US strikes killed 22 civilians
AP - 2 hours, 27 minutes ago
KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S. military said airstrikes by its attack helicopters hit two vehicles carrying insurgents in eastern Afghanistan. The province's governor said 22 civilians, including a woman and a child...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080705/ap_on_re_as...
At most, a third of the run up in commodity food prices is due to biofuels. How to explain that wheat price has tripled in 3 years, and is NOT a biofuel crop?
The LARGEST component (at least half) to the increase in food commodities price is the quadrupling of the price of "feedstock" for growing corn and other food, that feedstock being petroleum necessary to plant the crops, till the fields, fertilize, and harvest the crop. And to some real production (read supply) problems in normally big producers, like Australia, as well as high demand, and SOME speculation.
Corn based ethanol is driving up the cost of feed corn for animal production, which will result in increased meat prices, that's definitely true, however, meat production is woefully wasteful anyway.
Maybe we should be buying local, or grow more of our own to cut down on transportation. I am starting to do more every little bit helps.
"If all the grain currently fed to livestock in the United States were consumed directly by people, the number of people who could be fed would be nearly 800 million," David Pimentel, professor of ecology in Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, reported at the July 24-26 meeting of the Canadian Society of Animal Science in Montreal. Or, if those grains were exported, it would boost the U.S. trade balance by $80 billion a year, Pimentel estimated.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/aug97/live...
Animal protein production requires more than eight times as much fossil-fuel energy than production of plant protein while yielding animal protein that is only 1.4 times more nutritious for humans than the comparable amount of plant protein, according to the Cornell ecologist's analysis.
Rising affluence has allowed people throughout the world to alter their diets to include more meat. Over the last decade, per capita consumption of beef, pork and chicken has doubled in the world's poorer nations-though it is still just one-third the level in industrial nations.
This boom in meat consumption has been accompanied by increased intake of all animal products, such as dairy products and eggs, as well as seafood. Per capita consumption of milk, cheese, yogurt, ice cream and eggs have climbed to all-time highs. The world fish harvest has soared from 21 million tons to 120 million tons since mid-century, tripling the per capita consumption of seafood.
In a world where an estimated one in every six people goes hungry each day, the politics of meat consumption are increasingly heated, since meat production is an inefficient use of grain-the grain is used more efficiently when consumed directly by humans. Continued growth in meat output is dependent on feeding grain to animals, creating competition for grain between affluent meat eaters and the world's poor.
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/1626
I live in a large dryland wheat growing area, and what's happened here is that all the Crop Reserve land has been put into wheat production, and fields that were left fallow one year, or with a no till crop, for soil conservation, are being (have been) planted.
And Bush Bites is exactly correct about the the overconsumption of meat, especially in the developed world. Not only does it have huge economic and environmental costs, but huge health costs as well from eating too much meat. And then there's the horrendous factory farm and meat processing industry.
Also, it's always interesting to note that anti-biofuel people never pick on their own favorite ethanol products that use land that could've been used for food (Napa valley for wine grapes, wheat/corn for liquor, barely/wheat for beer). There's no way anyone can make an argument that the land used for making the drinking type of ethanol is any different than the ethanol used for driving the VW or SUV. In fact there is an ethanol plant in Benson, MN that makes ethanol biofuel and ethanol for drinking (Vodka) on exactly the same distilling equipment.