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Nestle chief warns of new food riots
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| 10-7-11
| AFP
Posted on 10/08/2011 7:53:45 PM PDT by dynachrome
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To: gogogodzilla
Very cheap if your eat tortillas.
Americans don't acually eat that much corn. Corn is a feed for cattle or an industrial feed stock for starch and sugar. In fact, as a soil scientist buddy of mine said, it's best to think of corn as any other industrial raw material, such as iron ore, oil or wood pulp.
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10/08/2011 11:26:06 PM PDT
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VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
To: VanShuyten
And that’s what the article is about. People in developing countries... who tend to eat the cheapest foods they can find, as they don’t have much money.
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posted on
10/09/2011 1:47:03 AM PDT
by
gogogodzilla
(Live free or die!)
To: leenie312
Central New York farmers lost their harvest because of Hurricane Irene flooding.
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posted on
10/09/2011 1:54:09 AM PDT
by
firebrand
(Why didn't they impeach him? He's now totally out of control.)
To: firebrand
Welcome to flyover country.
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10/09/2011 1:56:20 AM PDT
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
To: firebrand
WAL*MART doesn’t stock local produce..it is all shipped in.We have to go to the local store to get fresh NY produce.
To: VanShuyten
Americans don't acually eat that much corn. Corn is a feed for cattle or an industrial feed stock for starch and sugar. In fact, as a soil scientist buddy of mine said, it's best to think of corn as any other industrial raw material, such as iron ore, oil or wood pulp. Sorry, not so! Check out Omnivore's Dilemma. It's an eye-opener.
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10/09/2011 1:08:32 PM PDT
by
MV=PY
(The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
To: MV=PY
My comment was in reply to gogogodzilla, who thought that grinding up all the corn used in ethanol production to make corn meal would lower prices. I pointed out that Americans don't eat much corn, and that corn was an industrial feedstock to produce sugar and starch (and oil and protein and other chemicals). We eat lots of wheat in bread and pasta, and a fair amount of rice and beans, but not much corn or corn meal. However, the industrial products of corn are in many things we eat, as well as the fuel in our cars, the boxes and bags some foods come in and some of the drugs we take. Many of those products could be made from other vegetable derivatives or petroleum, but corn is cheap and easy to handle.
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10/09/2011 9:48:03 PM PDT
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VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
To: leenie312
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10/09/2011 10:28:25 PM PDT
by
firebrand
(Why didn't they impeach him? He's now totally out of control.)
To: VanShuyten
I understand your point about not eating much corn “directly.”
Onivore’s Dilemma traces the foods found in a supermarket back to original sources, and the amount of corn we consume is nothing short of amazing. It is possible to detect the amount of corn a human has consumed by analyzing his hair, and North Americans consume far more food derived from corn than any society in history.
For example, at McDonald’s, the chicken McNugget is cornfed chicken, the breading is corn, the coloring of the coating is a corn derivative. All of the soft drinks are sweetened with fructose. French fries are cooked in corn oil.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081111-fast-food-corn.html
You might find the book enlightening. I was quite surprised what our food supply really looks like.
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10/10/2011 2:30:32 PM PDT
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MV=PY
(The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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