Rising food prices are a threat to many; they also present the world with an enormous opportunity. Since the spring, wheat prices have doubled and almost every crop under the sun—maize, milk, oilseeds, you name it—is at or near a peak in nominal terms. The Economist
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boy, does a tank of ethanol for an SUV really the equivelant of feeding someone for an entire year?!?
I still have a .007 share in the family farms in KS. According to my Aunt who manages it, she remembers her grandmother telling her about $5 a bushel wheat back in the Depression/ Dust Bowl.
maybe it just because I'm reading animal, vegetable, miracle right now for a client (when I am not actually working on their project) but if our food production weren't so dependent on gasoline maybe we wouldn't need all that ethanol. Buy local while people still remember how! Man, I hope we get the stupid smacked out of us as a species pretty soon because I don't know how much longer we can take it.
crowbert for president! hear hear!
It still boggles my mind that when I lived in downtown Philadelphia I had easier access to better organic local produce than I have living right in the middle of freakin' Indiana.
"Buy local while people still remember how" - I love this statement and IMO this is the only way for Indy, a city that seems afraid of the outer world, to make itself interesting and viable: become truly local.
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