Policies promoting ethanol and biodiesel production and use in the US, Europe, and other parts of the world since the mid-2000s have had profound—and largely unintended—consequences on global food prices, agricultural land values, land acquisition, and food security in developing countries. They have also created regional opportunities in the form of agricultural investments, crop yield growth, and booming farm economies. Rising incomes in emerging economies are generating increased demand for transportation fuels, thus stimulating further growth of the global biofuel industry. This seminar explores the politics, economics, and global food security implications of the expanding biofuel sector. Several policy questions are raised, including the role of biofuel mandates on food prices, the role of trade policies for stabilizing food prices in an era of increasingly tight demand, and the role of land policies and institutions for feedstock production and income distribution in the developing world. This is the eighth talk in FSE’s Global Food Policy and Food Security Symposium Series.
In this rant, I look into Big Palm Oil’s efforts to undermine the EPA’s correct decision to label this evil substance as an environmentally unsustainable option in creating “biofuels,” a catch-all phrase with all kinds of snakes slithering around inside it.
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Interesting, thank you
yes, and it should be mentioned that you’re a dead ringer for Curly (Jerome Horwitz) except for the fact that he was fat and not very tall and you’re slender and rangy, he had almost no hair and your hair is quite long.
I guess the fact that you were victimized twice by the same bear made Mike Ruppert think of the 3 stooges. Mike also has a dog who at 1 point in time was pretty much his only companion, and apparently has struggled with alcoholism and addiction to tobacco.
I am, of course, assuming you are referring to the link on the drunken visionary bear, and not the perils of palm oil, which I THINK Michael Ruppert would agree with Rainforest Action Network.
Coming from Michael Ruppert, I will take that as a compliment.
From my facebook page:
Hi Marc,
Michael C. Ruppert commented on your link.
Michael wrote: “OMIGOD, I can’t stop laughing. For much of my spiritual journey over the last three decades or so I have frequently observed that spiritual teaching and lessons often seem to come from the Three Stooges School of Spirituality. This guy is definitely Curly. What saved him was the purity of his heart. It certainly wasn’t the acuity of his mind. Thank you.”
I neglected to tell Michael of your 148 IQ.
Chimpanzees are bit closer to humans genetically (98% agreement) than are orangutans, gibbons and gorillas, but the latter 3 apes are close enough, well over 90% identical genetically to humans.