Food prices are on the rise ... Has anyone else noticed?

Letum · 07-18-08, 03:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Skybird

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Originally Posted by Letum

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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

One reason - Biofuel

Bio-fuel is far from the only non-food crop and certainly not the most abundant.
More land is devoted to production of beer and other alcoholic drinks
than to bio-fuel.
And then there is game land, luxury crops, wildlife preserves, forestries etc. etc.

An then there is the effect bio-fuel has on oil prices to counter and food rise.

Think you are wrong there...

On what point do you think I am wrong?
I did not say that bio-fuel was not a factor in rising food prices.

I was just pointing out that it is one of very many non-food, non-essential
uses of potential farmland.
You could cut food prices by cutting down bio-fuel production, but equally you
could cut food prices by cutting down on luxery land use as listed above.