Good points. (your translation was excellent BTW, just one typo "principaux" translates as 'principal', not 'principle')
I wonder, is the floating type of sargassum (S.bacciferum OR natans) edible? Other varieties definitely are, as a Google search on sargassum and edible reveals. Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen A. Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Vortex-L" <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 3:56 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:corn price and ethanol > > > Nick Palmer wrote: >> I think it was Steven who wrote about the "sophistry" of the argument >> about why food prices were rising (due to the diversion of corn >> production into making ethanol biofuel). In today's technology review >> >> http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/20641/ they are looking at the >> problems that the American rush to ethanol has caused. It appears as >> if only one third of the price rise is due to this however... >> >> <<Some analysts, such as C. Ford Runge, a professor of applied >> economics and law at the University of Minnesota, say that the use of >> corn for fuel rather than food could account for about one-third of >> the rise in prices worldwide. The other two-thirds is split between >> the effects of weather and increases in demand, he says. (Runge >> presents his argument in "How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor," >> ... > So, food apparently isn't *just* getting more expensive, as one might > expect if a jump in the price of a raw material (oil) were solely to > blame -- it's getting scarcer, as well. >
