If you want 100 Million people to starve, keep putting corn in your gas tank.
Great insight from someone more eloquent with words than me...
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Posted by Mercyphotography
Today, UN Secretary General Ban
Ki-Moon is heading an international conference, in Switzerland, to
address the global food crisis. The World Food Programme ( WFP) says an
extra 100 million people ( world wide) cannot afford food anymore.
The World Bank President ( Robert Zoellick) is attending, so is
Pascal Lamy from the World Trade Organization. UN Secretary Ban says
that if not handle right away " The food crisis will escalate and pose real threats to economic groth, social progress and even political security "
Most worldwide analysts point at the corn production for ethanol as
one of the key factor in the crisis. Yet, in America the Congress is
likely to vote again in favor of very generous farming subsidies for
the corn agro-industry.
Senator McCain was against it in 2003, but now he is pro-ethanol,
Senator Clinton is in the same boat. It is easy to understand why;
bottom line ( unless you want to commit political suicide) it is very
hard to go against the farming lobby in the US.
I think it is time to cut all farm subsidies for corn growers, they
make enough money as it is. Of course it will never happen in an
election year.
To read about the UN, WFP and World Bank meeting go to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7370484.stm
Note: I am a French filmmaker/photojournalist based in the US since 1983. To view my main photo/editorial web site go to: http://www.digitalrailroad.net/Mercier