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BB641 year, 8 months ago

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The sky is falling!!! The sky is falling!!! Just another fear piece but I'm shocked at who printed this story. If you're living in the USA, there won't be food riot or starvation. However, if you live in a third world nation and more than 1/2 your food comes from the USA in food aide, well you're going to be in trouble. Over the last 50 years taxpayers bought up surplus crops and supplied many nations with food aid. Today, because of the tree hugging anti-gasoline lobby pushed the ethanol agenda, we're seeing farmers move towards producing more and more fuel corn. Less surplus food will lead to a crisis but not for us. We're still the bread basket of the world but now not the poor.

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  Jaydee401 year, 8 months ago
  
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  USA is anything but a bread basket, you import more than you export. Things will fall apart, it's only a question of when.
  
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    crghss1 year, 8 months ago
    
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    In a couple of thousand years. Man are you a hater. Are you the one with the Superpower envy? Yeah thats you.
    
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      skeek1 year, 8 months ago
      
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      Your country is just a few hundred years old while your empire is barely sixty years old. Yet already it's faltering and coming apart at the seams.
      I'd be very surprised if it sees out this century, should I live so long, much less the next two thousand years.
      
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      Jaydee401 year, 8 months ago
      
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      Where is the superpower? Your over stretched and broke.
      
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  quackpot1 year, 8 months ago
  
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  1---- Read the article - it is about the VERY REAL price increase of food NOT its scarcity in the U.S.
  2---- The Ethanol lobby is about BIG business. Its major backer for MANY years has been Archer Daniels Midland Company - a fortune 500 company. The major supporters are Representatives and Senators from the corn belt.
  3---As you WELL KNOW, your comments about who is backing the Corn-based-ethanol lobby are IDIOTIC. Why you keep repeating them, I do not know. FOLLOW THE MONEY. the MONEY is from ethanol producers (such a ADM) and BIG agribusiness.
  
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    Natureboy1 year, 8 months ago
    
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    ADM and likewise ConAgra.
    
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