Category: food security
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Food Crisis
Everybody that has read here for a while knows that I am very concerned that the push the US is seeing into ethanol and biofuels and the subsidies the government is spending on these things are endangering our food security. We have to think about what we are doing by trying to grow our fuel.…
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Priorities
<a href="http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2007/10/30/local_news_updates/19local_10-30-07.txt">Tainted meat traced to Canada</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A now-closed Canadian beef company was the source of contaminated meat that sickened 45 people in eight states, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials say.<br />n<br />nOne of those states was Wyoming. A recall pulled the meat from shelves in Cheyenne in late September and early October.<br />n<br />nA…
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Ethanol’s Concerns
Here is a real interesting story about <a href="http://www.wlj.net/editorial/102207_ethanols%AD_uncertain_future.htm">ethanol and some problems</a> that are developing in the whole ethanol is our savior myth.<br />n<br />n<blockquote> However, there are problems developing in the marketplace. Supply chain problems and rising costs are hampering growth in the industry despite an ethanol production subsidy and a federal mandate requiring…
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Pressure
I see China is trying to pressure the US into <a href="http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/18/business/AS-FIN-China-US-Food-Scrutiny.php">accepting more tainted food</a> by blocking American imports into their country.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>China has sharply increased inspections of imported U.S. food, escalating its spat with Washington over product safety and leaving American beef piling up in warehouses and delaying shipments of black pepper and…
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Troublesome
I found <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/15/AR2007091501647.html">this article</a> about pig disease in China very troublesome. I read it yesterday morning and had to let it run around my pea sized brain for a while but it struck me as a problem.<br />n<br />nWhat's so troublesome about it? China is so worried about making money off the vaccine for…
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Brain Dead
You want to talk about people who can't think, I have found an example. Here recently, as I am sure you are aware, There was a big problem with <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2611-Where-Does-The-Problem-Begin.html">melamine contamination</a> from some ingredients from China. It now appears an American company that manufactures feed for livestock and fish <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/30/AR2007053002227.html">also uses melamine</a> in…
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Where Does The Problem Begin
We have all heard about the <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUKN0326662720070506?pageNumber=1">pet food recalls and contaminated wheat gluten from China</a> that has caused it. The story has continued since some of this contaminated gluten has been fed to hogs and chickens and now raises questions about these animals. <br />n<br />nThe hogs and chickens that have all ready made…
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Food Safety
Activist always talk about American farmers and ranchers producing unsafe food. There is always something wrong with it according to them. You want to read about unsafe food, read this story about <a href="http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2007/04/14/ap/health/d8ofbfrg1.txt">food safety and China</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Worried about losing access to foreign markets and stung by tainted food products scandals at home, China…
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The Word is Getting Out
You know my feelings about how the drive for biofuels is going to drive the price of food up and how this trade off might not be the smartest thing in the world, but I now see the larger press is picking up on this idea.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL0639150720070307" title="Told you so.">As biofuels boom, will…
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Ethanol
<a href="http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=7308" >Ethanol Makes Gasoline Costlier, Dirtier</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In his State of the Union address, President Bush spoke a lot about energy independence and alternative energy sources such as ethanol. According to the president, ethanol is the magical elixir that will solve virtually every economic, environmental, and foreign policy problem on the horizon. In reality,…