Follow Up Article:
Why U.S. EPA ethanol policy caused Egypt crisis
It’s immoral to the highest degree.
Millions of people will starve to death every year going forward due to the watermelon enviros and the corn industry and cane sugar lobbies world wide for the coming decade.
We have entered into a trade oligarchy induced Malthusian framework which is artificially created to prop up the interests of a small number of very large Ag corporations.
It’s only a matter of time before the claims of ethnic genocide starts hallowing through the streets....
Nobody is starving because of sugar cane production. In Brazil less than 3% of arable land is producing sugar cane and of that, only a third is used for ethanol. In the IS it isn’t the enviros who are pushing EtOH - it’s ADM, Monsanto, and the RFA. There is also what is known as the “blend wall”, which limits US EtOH production, and we are about at that limit. In the next few years we’ll see Miscanthus and cellulosic EtOH take off and people won’t be able to give corn away.
Genocide sponsored by progressive environmentalists, who want humans to be extinct. It’s the poorest among us who will die first. Talk about death panels!!!!!
>>>>We have entered into a trade oligarchy induced Malthusian framework which is artificially created to prop up the interests of a small number of very large Ag corporations.
It’s only a matter of time before the claims of ethnic genocide starts hallowing through the streets....<<<<<
I would submit that it is the socialist central planning land-reform orientated countries who have failed us and are causing the problems, not large Ag corporations - ie Zimbabwe,South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Argentina etc.
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Sue Martin Analyzes the Volatile Commodity Markets
posted on February 11, 2011
http://www.iptv.org/mtom/story.cfm/feature/630
You have world coarse grains at 50-day supply and, of course, the tightest since 1973. U.S. corn days of supply is 18, with a stocks-to-usage ratio that’s about 4.9, 5 percent. That equals the tightest we’ve ever been in history of 1995 and ‘96. In the meantime we still have our year to go through, and you’ve got Argentina looking vulnerable because some of their crop did get hurt and they’re turning back hot and dry. So as they go through March, it’s going to be very critical to watch their weather, one for the later beans, the double crop beans, and two for the later corn as to how they end up faring out of their crops. And I think that, of course, Argentina is number two exporter in the world, a distant number two, and then Brazil is number three. But in the meantime I’m not too sure we’re going to see Argentina export corn this year.
-——example - Harvesting cotton by hand?? Hardly a winner!
The failures of Egyptian agricultural policy
Egyptian farmers collect the cotton harvest at a farm in al-Massara village near the Nile delta city of Mansura, in September 22, 2009. Egyptian cotton production is in decline, having this year reached its lowest in 100 years. (AFP Photo/Khaled Desouki)
http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/development/the-failures-of-egyptian-agricultural-policy.html