Comments on: Well, I guess the Celiacs will be okay*

By: SDC1

SDC1 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:15:45 +0000

Let’s hope so. Seems kind of crazy to use our food to make gas for our cars.

By: socalsailor

socalsailor — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:44:53 +0000

For years I have kept my rice in a 5 gallon bucket with a screw-type gasketed lid: I buy 20lb at a time: fills up the bucket about halfway. Keeps for a long time, particularly if you can keep your wife from loosening the lid “to make it easier to open.” Biofuels and GM crops are pure scams to “feed” the corporate bandits.

By: Fern

Fern — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:29:34 +0000

Is it possible that shortages of food and increased prices with make biofuels un-economical in the long run?

By: mweholt

mweholt — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:22:45 +0000

I’ve been a diagnosed celiac for 4 or 5 years now, and I confess this morning when I heard this story on NPR I thought to myself, “Finally, some bad news I don’t have to pay attention to!” But then I remembered the rice thing, of course…

But if anybody wants any tips on how to avoid wheat, rye, and barley in your daily diet, just let me know. It’s not so hard once you get used to it.

And for my part, I now have the additionally indicators of impossibly high prices and/or complete absence of a product to signal the presence of wheat. Before, all I could do was read the product-label like it contained somewhere within it the secret to the meaning of life.

By: alank

alank — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:33:21 +0000

There have been acutely alert groups in South America countries strongly, vociferously, adamantly foursquare opposed to the conversion of their land to vast tracts of biofuel crops such as corn. Al Gore has not strongly opposed this consequence of his global warming awareness campaign for which he received a Nobel recently. In fact the a consortium of biofuels stakeholders have praised him for greasing the wheels to greater conquest of arable land presently devoted to growing food crops, vide, Biofuels Personality of the Year, Finalist: Al Gore

For Gore, the other renewable resource has been his popularity, which cycles through highs and lows, and is currently on the all-time high which took him from the Oscars to Oslo.

As a biofuels advocate he has been less prominent, but no one single person has done more that to dramatize the global warming crisis and, thereby, help justify the large bets that governments have been making in support biofuels development.

By: i4u2bi

i4u2bi — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:21:07 +0000

Easy solution…raise the tax on futures traders high enough for the government(s) to subsidize food for the people. It would do two things right away..lower food prices and stabilize commodities in general and it should be extended to ALL futures.

By: SDC1

SDC1 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:16:42 +0000

Seems to me that we ain’t seen nothin’ yet,if we keep converting our food into gas for our cars.

By: spacefish

spacefish — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:38:34 +0000

OT - I see the Reps killed the Lilly Ledbetter bill.

LINK

By: Alecia

Alecia — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:37:45 +0000

”How reminiscent of the ”welfare to work” policies cooked up by the Bill Clinton administration, an exchange of one form of dependency, welfare, for another, low-wage labor.”… Atimes

By: sadlyyes

sadlyyes — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:33:12 +0000

i shall find the 4h ,here and apply for help