It's a riot... food for thought

This is not exactly today's or even yesterday's news, although we have alluded to it in past posts... there's a food inflation of biblical proportion going on. Everyone is caught up on it. The Economist, one of the early birds in bringing this to attention, calls it the "Silent Tsunami" (April 19, 2008). Many commentators blame the new US Energy bill (let's call it policy!), that gives preferential treatment to those who will burn corn (maize) for fuel (let's call it bio fuel!). It is a perverse thought; to wit the idea that you must (as the bill stipulates) use food item to run your SUV, when over one billion people go to bed (euphemism for sleeping on dirt) every night, malnourished.

It is a crazy world. How about using corn, rice, or wheat as sustenance, not only for our brave bombers, who drop bombs on ants from 45,000 feet, but also for our long-range bombers, so that we would more efficiently and less costly drop 5000-lb bombs on the same people who so desperately need the very corn, the rice and the wheat used as jet fuel.