Website review: The End Of Cheap Food By John Jame...
AnthonyArrigo discovered this in Ecology
•10 reviews since Aug 7, 2007
ecology, environment
•countercurrents.org/james040807.htm
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AnthonyArrigo discovered 12 months ago- From the page: "the era of cheap food is over"
- fredzena rated 12 months ago
- My father was a market gardener and in his last 10 years of farming a 50 acre operation he experienced difficulty in marketing his product. Distributors preferred to ship things in from the U.S. and Mexico rather than buy locally because the imported agri-business products were cheaper (who cares about quality). He often had to sell products at less than he should have in order to get rid of them. The buy local movement came too late for him. He died at a relatively young age of 66 (his father lived to 90) and I can't help but wonder to this day whether he let himself go because of the increased frustrations he experienced towards the end of his life.
- laddeedee rated 12 months ago
- important read on the negative impact of biofuel by john james,thanks AnthhonyArrigo,peace,laddee
- DickBeldin rated 12 months ago
- Apres moi, le deluge!
- innovatorAU rated 12 months ago
- interesting opinion on food supply. HF Corn Syrup anyone?
- flyingrose rated 12 months ago
- It is up to individuals to change what the corruption has wrought. Vote with your purchases to change the world. Plant a garden. Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables. Buy locally. Support your local CSA (Consumer Supported Agriculture). From the page: "looming biofuels disaster Biofuel production is pushing huge amounts of land out of food production. One sixth of the grain grown in the US this year will be "industrial corn" for ethanol. One third of US maize is now used for biofuel and there was last year a 48% increase in the amount of farmland devoted to biofuels. During that time hardly any new land was brought under the plough to replace the lost food production. There is only a difference in scale in China, Indonesia and Brazil where primary forests are being cleared to plant energy crops. Yet, after fossil fuel use, deforestation is the largest single source of CO2. The competition for water is likely to favour the biofuel producers as their crop, being subsidised, commands higher prices than corn or soya. Ethanol has roughly 70% the energy content of gasoline while costing 40% more to produce. In Australia, if all our wheat and sugar output was diverted to ethanol it would supply less than 30% of our fuel needs. As these crops now feed 80 million people, what will they eat instead?"
- LordMortis rated 12 months ago
- The era of cheap water is, too.
- shell42970 rated 12 months ago
- From the page: "A straight switch is happening from food to fuel. As oil prices rise - and Peak Oil guarantees they will - it pulls up the price of biofuels as well, so it becomes more attractive for farmers to switch from food to fuel.
Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute says: "The stage is now set for frontal competition for grain between the 800 million people who own automobiles, and the world's two billion poorest who will need it to survive.""
Ethanol is not the correct answer to the alternative fuel question.
The amount of land needed to support fueling the growing number of automobiles and the growing population is unsustainable. - From the page: "A straight switch is happening from food to fuel. As oil prices rise - and Peak Oil guarantees they will - it pulls up the price of biofuels as well, so it becomes more attractive for farmers to switch from food to fuel.
- redshift13 rated 12 months ago
- "Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute says: "The stage is now set for frontal competition for grain between the 800 million people who own automobiles, and the world's two billion poorest who will need it to survive.""
