I second the motion!

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1. It is indeed criminal, but all too characteristic, that the West is trying to prop up its collapsing sodomite lifestyle by literally burning the world's food.

2. (to LGT) Yes, I too have been experiencing page upload delays. I don't know what's causing it - I just assumed there's lots of traffic on the server.

Not to mention the undue burden placed upon the poor and the working class by the purchasing of food taking up the better part of their limited resources.

The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.

"Surging commodity prices have pushed up global food prices 83% in the past three years..."

One legitimate reason given for the food shortages is the demand for animal products in China and India. But that increase in demand is gradual and grows with income. This spike in food prices has been sudden. I keep running into biofuel proponents who keep trying to downplay biofuels role. But when you look at this chart you see how the surge in biofuel production corresponds to dropping grain reserves in the last several years.

According to the Bush gang:

"We also think a significant part of the food problem relates not from biofuels but from simply the costs of energy in terms of fertilizer and in terms of transportation costs for food,"

All of which also increase the cost of ethanol. You can see how an attempt to lower oil prices by displacing it with ethanol is a self-defeating downward spiral.

Farmers around the world will eventually respond and food prices will come down. This spike however will damage and kill uncounted poor children with malnutrition in the interim. And, the extra food will have to be grown where there was a carbon sink ecosystem.

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world

Good quote alright!  It is fuel farming for gas guzzling or food.  That's a real dilemna.  No fallacy.

How are efforts for  reproductive rights (and all other rights) for women in India proceeding, we never hear much about that?

In general, all over the world, it seems that the central role of reproductive rights for women goes unrecognized as the major solution for overpopulation and in turn GHG climate disaster.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog

http://feww.wordpress.com/2007/09/15/google-blocks-damagi ...

"How are efforts for  reproductive rights (and all other rights) for women in India proceeding, we never hear much about that?"

Here's one my friends are doing on Philippines:

http://feww.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/country-in-focus-phi ...