Drought choice: food supply or ethanol? ( Either way, engineered corn is involved.)

[No Elephants]

Aug 9, 3:08 AM EDT

Livestock farmers seek pause in ethanol production

By JIM ABRAMS
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Livestock farmers and ranchers seeing their feed costs rise because of the worst drought in a quarter-century are demanding that the Environmental Protection Agency waive production requirements for corn-based ethanol.

The Obama administration sees no need for a waiver, siding with corn growers - many of them in presidential election battleground states Iowa and Ohio - who continue to support the mandate.

"If not now, when?" Randy Spronk, a Minnesota pork farmer, said of the EPA's authority to defer the ethanol production requirement when it threatens to severely harm the economy of a state or region. "Everyone should feel the pain of rationing."

Spronk, who is president-elect of the National Pork Producers Council, said livestock producers will have to reduce their herds and flocks because feed is becoming scarce and too expensive. Cattlemen and chicken farmers have the same concern.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DROUGHT_ETHANOL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-08-09-03-08-31



This reminds me: I have noticed weathermen becoming shills for the RW. In reporting things like drought or recording breaking heat, they always seem careful to mention that "it's the worse since....."

I know that weather persons have always told us things like that. However, now, they seem to be couching it a way that plays into the RW myth that, either global warming is not happening at all or, it is happening, but human activity is not a factor. (If they tell us some weather condition we are experiencing now last happened sometime around 1876, the implication would be that human activity is not determinative.). Even Gingrich finally abandoned that song and dance.

Besides, it is not only that last July was "the hottest since..." It's that, in the last decade or two, we've broken record after record. And they seem to leave out that little detail.

When I heard a TV weather person say how lucky we were to have drought-resistant hybrid corn, my nagging suspicions about their agenda seemed confirmed.

Lucky? It's ruining all hope of organic crops from Canada to South America, thanks to things like wind, bees, etc.. And it's going to ethanol, anyway.

:banghead:

[DainBramaged]

1. The drought will force gas prices up because of the price of corn

we are fucked either way