Category: food security
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Ethanol Industry Problems
<a href="http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=N22604105&WTmodLoc=World-R5-Alertnet-4" >US ethanol firms may scrap plants as margins fall</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>U.S. ethanol producers may start scrapping plant construction plans after a surge in the cost of corn and a slide in gasoline prices put profit margins into the red, analysts said on Monday.<br />n<br />nThe outlook could damp a dramatic building boom as…
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Iceberg
I see that my contention that food prices will rise because of ethanol production is not all hot air, it's starting to be seen.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MEXICO_EXPENSIVE_TORTILLAS?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Mexicans cope with rising tortilla price</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Soaring international demand for corn has caused a spike in prices for Mexico's humble tortilla, hitting the poor and forcing President Felipe…
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Ethanol Concerns Grow
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/vetlife_content.asp?contentid=96920" >Ethanol Production Threatening Livestock Industry, Food Supply</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Think tanks and livestock producers alike are alarmed at the rate of growth of the ethanol industry and its effect on feed supplies for the meat industry.<br />n<br />nRon Plain, an agricultural economist at the University of Missouri, says that increases in corn costs have…
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News, Maybe
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ETHANOL_FIGHT?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >Ethanol boom divides farmers, ranchers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>From corn fields to Wall Street, enthusiasm for ethanol is at an all-time high. But not everyone is enthusiastic.<br />n<br />nDemand for the corn-based fuel is driving up the cost of feed corn, making it more expensive to feed cows, chickens and pigs.<br />n<br />n"It's hard to…
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Food Borne Illness
<a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=94959" >Rates Of Foodborne Illness Are Decreasing</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported that rates of foodborne illness and the incidence of pathogens in food declined significantly between the late 1990s and 2005. The incidence rates of infection for major pathogens declined by the following rates: Listeria, 32% Campylobacter, 30% E. coli…
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Wisdom of Cloning
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/28/AR2006122800552.html" >FDA Says Clones Are Safe To Eat</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Taking a long-awaited stand in an emotionally fraught food fight, the Food and Drug Administration yesterday released a 678-page analysis concluding that milk and meat from cloned animals pose no unique risks to consumers.<br />n<br />nThe decision, subject to change after a period of public…
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Quite A Change
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061211/lf_nm/cities_dc" >In epochal shift, half humanity to become urban</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>With the world poised to enter an urban age when more people will live in cities than in the countryside, Josiah Tobiko sees no need to move from his cow dung-covered hut in rural Kenya.<br />n<br />n"You can choose city life with televisions and…
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What You Talkin About?
<blockquote>Soaring corn prices are squeezing meat and milk producers, but consumers will not necessarily see higher prices at the grocery checkout, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said in an interview Thursday.<br />n<br />nCostly corn has made it more expensive to feed cows, chickens and pigs. Demand for ethanol, a fuel made from corn, has pushed the…
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Track It
I have been waiting for more information before commenting on the latest case of E-coli hitting our food markets. I see a little more information but no answers yet.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061213/ap_on_bi_ge/e_coli_outbreak_taco_bell" >Officials: Lettuce source of E. coli</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Lettuce was the most likely source of an outbreak of E. coli linked to Taco Bell,…
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Enough To Eat
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/11/19/news/business/54-scientists.txt" >Scientists urge research to aid in balancing food, energy needs</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>To ensure that there's enough corn to fuel humans as well as vehicles, scientists are urging more research into boosting corn yields and improving ethanol production.<br />n<br />nMany key issues related to expanding the nation's ethanol industry aren't being studied under current…