from http://www.moonofalabama.org/2…..m-wit.html

” . . . People who hold billions in derivative bets on higher wheat and soybean prices are also buying the companies that stock grains. They are taking wheat off the physical market to manipulate the price upwards and to profit on their bets while elsewhere people die of hunger. Today such behaviour is legal.”

“First in Use, First in Right”

http://www.vanityfair.com/poli…..rentPage=1

Monsanto: the epitomy of corporate evil

right along with intentionally spreading heavy metals and the nerve toxins/birth defect inducing/cancer causing agents of industrial chemistry through our children’s bodies for decades after we knew we were doing so.

Our (mutated) descendents will have reason to judge us severely..as will our children. I hope they have the mercy and compassion Ian descried in Craig Newell.

And now I’m off to heat the house and make dinner: hopefully from distinct activities. Thanks to those who commented and those who read. And once again, I hope those who have been reading but haven’t yet jumped in with a comment will do so – I’ll stop by on Sunday to see what everyone had to share.

Bon appetit!

Kirk – this is the same practice you’ve talked about in Iraq, no? The Frankenseeds?

Newtonusr, Frankenseeds are exactly the same practice that our Liberty U commissars force-fed Iraqi farmers.

Incredible arrogance, actually: saving seeds for the next year’s planting is as old as agriculture itself.

With Iraq forming part of the Fertile Crescent where we humans first began agriculture, pushing this destructive technology on local farmers is beyond even the Bushies’ accustomed arrogance.

My only fear would be that if US cattle producers were forced into this they’d somehow re-introduce that feed that leads to BSE.

Jo, I would fear that outcome, too.

Fortunately, we eaters can use our power as purchasers (and the 70% of the economy we comprise) to adjust our grocery shopping without forcing US cattle producers to do anything. We can just decide to eat one less meat-based meal each week [or those with the option and capacity can substitute “grass-fed” beef for grain-fed/fattened beef].

And for folks who can’t drop that one meat-based meal (for whatever reason: no judgement implied here) switching to chicken (about 3 lbs grain per pound of meat) is another option we in the US have to decrease global demand for grains.