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Uploaded by on Jan 19, 2008

potatoe

Irish potato famine versus corn-based ethanol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Irish_Famine#Food_exports_to_England

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  • Hey man interesting video! I am with you on the Food for Fuel thing, it is just insanity!! I will be going 2 my property in Kentucky at the end of January and I will be taking my cam with me. I will show you massive amounts of Petroleum that is being produced but remains unaccounted for! We are all being hoodwinked my friend and markets are being manipulated all in the name of God Profit!

    5/5

  • ok

    how's your cold?

  • My Grandfather was one of the original Irish

    Home Children.Orphans sent to Canada as farm

    laborers.He was packed off alone to Manitoba at

    the age of 9.Did you read The Oil We Eat?

  • I did, and I got angry. Also, a bit of apathy. A whole pile of it in fact. Me being a veggie type I've minimised my suffering and destruction in that order. First I gave up milk, then soya milk, then all processed foods. The next step is non-local foods, which is a tough one considering where I live.

  • brave heart, the guy,whats his name,william wallace spoke only french,it's true.

  • He didn't speak only French, he was born and raised in Scotland. Maybe you're thinking of Mary Queen of Scots, or Prince Charlie.

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  • That biofuels are putting up food prices seems simple, it's a nice moral issue and offers an easy solution (cut the biofuels and all will be well). But the land used for biofuels just doesn't seem enough; the numbers don't look anything like right. An alternative would be droughts cause food commodity prices to rise -- and a slumping dollar causes a bail out into commodities.

  • I dont see the wide spread starveing of Mexicans in the near future,they come in to the U.S. at will, and work sending most of the money back to Mexico,Mexico's economy is better than ever, and will be for some time to come in my opinion.

  • Gratex, you are not using sound economic theory in your appraisal of the corn market.

    The increased demand and prices of corn and corn products will spur increased production and innovation. Great American companies like Monsanto are working on new forms of our most basic crops that will greatly increase the yield.

    However, ethanol and the government subsidies that support it are a sham.

  • It's not even that people turn away from the truth, it's just people are way too apathetic.

    Nobody feels they have a role to play, they feel what they do is somehow disconnected from everything else.

    The individual considers himself as such, but in reality the individual is really part of a larger whole.

    The belief one must act with haste due to a coming apocalypse is somewhat essential even if it is a half-truth.

  • I doubt they had enough...

  • I was thinking of attempting a video on it.Or

    do you think this is old information?

  • It is still kicking my ass! The big problem is I cant speak...

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