I was originally going to post this in my
so_very_doomed round-up, but after reviewing it, I felt it a better fit here, in amongst the oil talk.
Agriculture and Food in Crisis: An Overview-“In 2008 some 30 percent of the entire corn crop in the United States was used to produce ethanol to blend with gasoline to fuel cars. Estimates of how much ethanol
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Ethanol is nowhere near as big a problem, food supply wise, as eating meat at every meal.
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The same essay and one of the authors offers The World Food Crisis: Sources and Solutions as a footnote, which details the rise in corn prices beginning in 2007 and the exponential rise in meat production since 1961 (71 million tons) to 2007 (~284 million tons).
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Starvation is what big oil wants people to think.
take a look at http://www.permaculture.com/
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Thank you for the link, regardless! I'm fully of the opinion that becoming vegetarian, utilising alternative power sources, and looking after the starving is the only possible solution; if there is one.
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