Back in April, Culinary no-no # 52 examined how the biofuels craze and the subsequent rise in food prices was impacting world hunger.
Dirt cookies made out of mud. Looting. Rioting.
And it’s getting worse.
Poor women in many parts of the world are trading sex for food, increasing the risk of new AIDS infections. Officials of the United Nations (UN) made that startling announcement at a conference in Mexico last week.
The UN points the finger at biofuels, claiming more expensive food prices have resulted in another 50 million people going hungry. Women are so desperate they’re joining the crews of large fishing boats, selling their bodies for scraps. Officials fear an explosion in new AIDS cases. Those on the front lines grapple with how to combat hunger and AIDS.
Read more from ABC.
As the mountain of evidence suggesting links to biofuels, higher food prices, and a global food crisis continues to grow, a correlation that most Americans fully understand, we can count on our government bureaucrats to turn a deaf ear to this critical issue.
Last week, the Environmental Protection Association refused to reduce the quota on ethanol in cars. The New York Times described the EPA’s conclusion that, “at least for now, the national goal of reducing oil use trumps any effect on food prices from making fuel from corn.”
The newspaper quoted a typical bureaucrat, completely bankrupt of nay common sense. EPA administrator Stephen L. Johnson demonstrated his head-in-the -sand mentality when he said the ethanol mandate was not causing “severe harm to the economy or the environment.”
What planet is he on?
Food producers disagree, saying food inflation is bad enough but could get worse.
This is very revealing. The feds don’t care that your trip to the grocery to feed your family is becoming increasingly more difficult or that people around the world are starving. They care more about cramming our food into our gas tanks.
The federal government’s refusal to relax the quota and mandates on ethanol and the inability to understand the ramifications of those inactions is a culinary no-no of global proportions.
