Comments on: Meat-free equals hungry people http://brownfieldagnews.com/2009/06/23/meat-free-equals-hungry-people/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:43:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave Juday http://brownfieldagnews.com/2009/06/23/meat-free-equals-hungry-people/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Dave Juday Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:27:05 +0000 http://www.brownfieldagnews.com/?p=3666#comment-21 well, ... what the vegans and animal rights activists have not been able to do so far (i.e. wipe out the US livestock industry), the ethanol lobby is about to do for them. The whole agenda of the animal rights crowd is to increase the cost of production for livestock to where it is unprofitable to stay in business. Wittingly or not, that is what the mad biofuels rush has become. Ethanol was a good idea to stabilize corn prices as productivity grew or to be an offsetting use in a bear market. That's how the Brazilians have approached using ethanol to stabilize sugar prices. But now the ethanol industry uses half the corn crop - and they still have more mandated use under the federal energy statutes of 2005 and 2007 - and yet they are pushing for more, more, more. To quote Cyndi above, "we simply do not have enoughland on this planet" to make enough biofuel for a significant dent in fossil fuel consumption and to raise food and feed as well. The cartoon character Pogo paraphrased a famous Ben Franklin quote when he said he "met the enermy and he is us." Why so worried about animal rights extremists, when the mainstream ag community has done more damage to livestock in the past 2 years than animal rights activists have in 2 decades? well, … what the vegans and animal rights activists have not been able to do so far (i.e. wipe out the US livestock industry), the ethanol lobby is about to do for them.

The whole agenda of the animal rights crowd is to increase the cost of production for livestock to where it is unprofitable to stay in business. Wittingly or not, that is what the mad biofuels rush has become.

Ethanol was a good idea to stabilize corn prices as productivity grew or to be an offsetting use in a bear market. That’s how the Brazilians have approached using ethanol to stabilize sugar prices. But now the ethanol industry uses half the corn crop – and they still have more mandated use under the federal energy statutes of 2005 and 2007 – and yet they are pushing for more, more, more. To quote Cyndi above, “we simply do not have enoughland on this planet” to make enough biofuel for a significant dent in fossil fuel consumption and to raise food and feed as well.

The cartoon character Pogo paraphrased a famous Ben Franklin quote when he said he “met the enermy and he is us.” Why so worried about animal rights extremists, when the mainstream ag community has done more damage to livestock in the past 2 years than animal rights activists have in 2 decades?

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