Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths

2008-07-16 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Chip Sorry, a bit late with this. More snips... | A FAO document distributed yesterday said: Biofuels accounted for | 59% of the increase in global use of coarse grains and wheat between | 2005-2007, and 56% of the increase in vegetable oils. I am having a really hard time buying this (pun

Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths

2008-07-07 Thread Chip Mefford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lots of stuff snipped, my only comment inline below (leaving thread intact, because it's a very good thread) Keith Addison wrote: | Hi Chip | | Keith Addison wrote: | http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=552 | | Seedling July 2008 | | The food

Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths

2008-07-07 Thread Kurt Schasker
In David Blume's book: Alcohol can be a gas are listed several facts regarding corn as a food. In summary, it goes like this. (I have always found this book to be factually accurate, and I have tried to find irregularities). 1. 10 lbs of corn makes about one-half gallon ethanol and 3 lbs

Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths

2008-07-07 Thread Keith Addison
Kurt Schasker wrote: In David Blume's book: Alcohol can be a gas are listed several facts regarding corn as a food. In summary, it goes like this. (I have always found this book to be factually accurate, and I have tried to find irregularities). 1. 10 lbs of corn makes about one-half

Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths

2008-07-02 Thread Jason Mier
absolutely. have at it. Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 05:29:17 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths Precisely. But what is needed is first a recognition that Joe's small-scale autonomy

Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths

2008-07-02 Thread Dawie Coetzee
Thanks   -D - Original Message From: Jason Mier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Sent: Wednesday, 2 July, 2008 12:52:00 PM Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths absolutely.  have at it. Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 05:29:17 + From

Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths

2008-07-01 Thread Jason Mier
on a similar note, why try to factory-ize it in the first place? let's make up a person- call him Neighborhood Joe. so Joe lives in a sensibly sized town of about 2500 people, there is a bakery, a market, a couple of restaurants, a laundry service, a hardware store, an auto shop, and -like

Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths

2008-07-01 Thread Keith Addison
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chip Mefford Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 12:14 PM To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths Keith Addison wrote: http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=552Seedling July 2008The food emergency

Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths

2008-07-01 Thread Keith Addison
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chip Mefford Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 12:14 PM To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths Keith Addison wrote: http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id

Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths

2008-07-01 Thread Keith Addison
Hi Chip Keith Addison wrote: http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=552 Seedling July 2008 The food emergency and food myths Why Bush is wrong to blame Indians for the rise in food prices Vandana Shiva * I really enjoy Vandana Shiva's input. It's clueful and very well thought out.

Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths

2008-07-01 Thread Keith Addison
:-) Great, Jason. Best Keith on a similar note, why try to factory-ize it in the first place? let's make up a person- call him Neighborhood Joe. so Joe lives in a sensibly sized town of about 2500 people, there is a bakery, a market, a couple of restaurants, a laundry service, a hardware

Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths

2008-07-01 Thread Dawie Coetzee
emergency and food myths on a similar note, why try to factory-ize it in the first place? let's make up a person- call him Neighborhood Joe. so Joe lives in a sensibly sized town of about 2500 people, there is a bakery, a market, a couple of restaurants, a laundry service, a hardware store

Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths

2008-06-30 Thread Chip Mefford
Keith Addison wrote: http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=552 Seedling July 2008 The food emergency and food myths Why Bush is wrong to blame Indians for the rise in food prices Vandana Shiva * I really enjoy Vandana Shiva's input. It's clueful and very well thought out. That said;

Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths

2008-06-30 Thread Steve Moran
] On Behalf Of Chip Mefford Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 12:14 PM To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths Keith Addison wrote: http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=552 Seedling July 2008 The food emergency and food myths Why Bush

Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths

2008-06-30 Thread Terry Dyck
be counted as a non food from a nutritional view point. Terry Dyck Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:08:11 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: sustainablelorgbiofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths Don't farmers have the right to sell their corn to whoever

[Biofuel] The food emergency and food myths

2008-06-28 Thread Keith Addison
http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=552 Seedling July 2008 The food emergency and food myths Why Bush is wrong to blame Indians for the rise in food prices Vandana Shiva * United States President George W. Bush has a new analysis of the global rise in food prices. At an interactive session