http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/09/04/let-them-eat-something-or-other/ Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes - Marcus Valerius Martialis Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:41:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/09/04/let-them-eat-something-or-other/comment-page-1/#comment-65249 Robert Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:15:37 +0000 http://bluecrabboulevard.com/2007/09/04/let-them-eat-something-or-other/#comment-65249 Burning your food for fuel makes about as much sense as cutting down a large tree, making a bunch of fine furniture out of it that you use regularly, and then when winter comes, burning that furniture for heat. There's a reason we burned stuff like coal, oil, and natural gas for energy, rather than food. The Archer Daniels Midland corn-o-hol corporate welfare is now starting to bear bitter fruit. I don't think we want to end up like Ethiopia, where they have plenty of agricultural land to feed themselves, but because of stupid political decisions, are unable to. Can you imagine the world sending food aid to starving people in the U.S.? Let us avoid ever bringing that day about! Burning your food for fuel makes about as much sense as cutting down a large tree, making a bunch of fine furniture out of it that you use regularly, and then when winter comes, burning that furniture for heat. There’s a reason we burned stuff like coal, oil, and natural gas for energy, rather than food. The Archer Daniels Midland corn-o-hol corporate welfare is now starting to bear bitter fruit. I don’t think we want to end up like Ethiopia, where they have plenty of agricultural land to feed themselves, but because of stupid political decisions, are unable to. Can you imagine the world sending food aid to starving people in the U.S.? Let us avoid ever bringing that day about!

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