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unintended consequences #78432

Published
by
dave
on April 6, 2008
in TEOTWAWKI, food, freedom, idiots, political and science
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Two years ago the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation expected biofuels to help eradicate hunger and poverty for up to two billion people. Yesterday the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon raised real doubt over that policy amid signs that the world was facing its worst food crisis in a generation.

Since the FAO’s report in April 2006 tens of thousands of farmers have switched from food to fuel production to reduce US dependence on foreign oil. Spurred by generous subsidies and an EU commitment to increase the use of biofuels to counter climate change, at least 8m hectares (20m acres) of maize, wheat, soya and other crops which once provided animal feed and food have been taken out of production in the US.

Seems to me that every time the .gov gets involved in something it turns to sh*t.

Thanks to bio-fuel subsidies the price of my bagel keeps going up how much does that suck?


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