Credit crunch? The real crisis is global hunger. And if you care, eat less meat(Moonbat Incoming!)

The Guardian ^ | Tuesday April 15 2008 | Goerge Monbiot

[.cnI redruM]

Never mind the economic crisis. Focus for a moment on a more urgent threat: the great food recession that is sweeping the world faster than the credit crunch. You have probably seen the figures by now: the price of rice has risen by three-quarters over the past year, that of wheat by 130%. There are food crises in 37 countries. One hundred million people, according to the World Bank, could be pushed into deeper poverty by the high prices.

But I bet that you have missed the most telling statistic. At 2.1bn tonnes, the global grain harvest broke all records last year - it beat the previous year's by almost 5%.

[.cnI redruM]

Monbiot teetered on the brink of sounding intelligent when he ripped biofuels. I was so astounded (and admittedly somewhat worried) to find myself in agreement with this deracinated whack-job for even a few paragraphs, that I kept reading.

Then he regressed back to his mean. No wonder they coined a term for this man. Moonbat!

[liberallarry]

Exactly. There’s a real problem here. Too bad it’s Monbiot writing about it.

[NRA1995]

The TRUE whack job is the one who came up with the idea for fighting global warming by launching 16 trillion reflective Frisbees between Earth and the sun. Second place goes to the moron who came up with Earth Hour.

[kingattax]

eat more possum

[indcons]

The real global food crisis is partly due to the conversion of food into bio fuels. Foreign ministers of some Asian and African countries actually indirectly blamed the food shortage and increased prices on Al Gore’s global warming hysteria.

[.cnI redruM]

Bingo! But don't Let Charles Grassley, Tim Daschele and the Archer-Midland-Daniels boys off the hook for this one for a second as well.

[Ouderkirk]

we should start something like OFEC

Organization of FOOD Exporting Countries and start limiting the global supply of food to our own strategic advantage.

What’s good for petroleum is good for food....

[.cnI redruM]

Agreed. If you really want to be a good anti-corporation liberal, find a way to rip agribusiness a bloody new grain chute. They make the old railroad trusts look benign.

[steve-b]

But I cannot advocate a diet that I am incapable of following. I tried it for about 18 months, lost two stone, went as white as bone and felt that I was losing my mind.

How could he tell?

[.cnI redruM]

Yep. Just tell the Saudis we have a hard time affording enough diesel to fuel up the tractors. Shucks!

[.cnI redruM]

He couldn’t even tell if he just lost one of shoes! Thorazine does that to a person.

[traumer]

Can we make food from oil ?

[Gorzaloon]

Second place goes to the moron who came up with Earth Hour.

Now wait! I'll have you know that I caught up on a LOT of Arc Welding during Earth Hour, that I had been putting off ! Think of all the whales and Owls who were admiring my blue flashes! I burned a lot of 6013 on those wrought iron railings.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“Beef cattle eat about 8kg of grain or meal for every kilogram of flesh they produce; a kilogram of chicken needs just 2kg of feed.”

The envriowhackos are desperate to deflect attention from the real cause of this food crisis — panic over “global warming”.

"Diet for a Small Planet” types parrot those meaningless statistics at every opportunity. They leave out the fact that meat contains at least three times the protein per pound compared to grains. They also leave out the fact that a lot of meat comes from animals raised on range land, that is unsuitable for growing vegatable or grain crops.

[TexasRepublic]

We should trade food for oil. A bushel of wheat for a barrel of oil, for example.

[.cnI redruM]

Oh stop it! You'll unsettle Monbiot’s after dinner martinis. Judging from his writing style, he fails to eat enough finger foods to absorb the juices.

[Gorzaloon]

I could not possibly GAFL about World Hunger any more, because in every instance we send "Aid" all it does is prop up some tinhorn despot who hates our guts and continues to starve their own people, as they arm their own thugs.

Screw them.

[indcons]

Fair enough

[Abathar]

That’s a great idea, we could do it for technology too.

“You want that new MRI machine that is the only way to truly see if your king will live or die? I guess you should have opened the spickets last month Abdul. Same thing for your spare Boeing parts, now get in a boat and come on over, then we can talk face to face about your problems.”

[bolobaby]

“How could he tell?”

When you have very little of something to begin with, you notice when you start losing some.