Home Gardening Becomes Even More Imperative

 Full article at:

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/27/1485/

Battle for Biofuels Drives World Food Prices Higher

 Charlie wrote:


Yeah, growing food for cars MAY be immoral.


Carl


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Makes sense doesn't it. Convert food stocks, grown on arable land easily
devoted to a variety of uses, to fuel. Use almost as much energy to make the
fuel as the fuel actually yields. Yep, makes sense to me.

making bio-diesel from sewerage waste. Will not meet our current fuel usage
but can go some way to meeting current demand, uses a waste (shit) to make a
fuel and does not lock up arable land (grows on sewerage ponds). Moreover it
cleans the water.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0605/S00030.htm?CFID 36936&CFTOKENg777452

grain production vs consumption
http://www.fas.usda.gov/grain/circular/2006/05-06/graint2.gif

rob

 <Charlie> wrote in message

And farmer's income and our cars are of primary importance of course.  Our
mouths and stomachs take second fiddle.  Point taken.

Question.  Where are the bees?  Another part of the equation eventually
driving us to starvation.  Think bigger than just the things mentioned.  Who
and what and  why stands to gain from this?
Dave

 

Corn is petroleum intensive. See book "Omnivore's Dilemma".

- Bill
Coloribus gustibus non disputatum (mostly)