Biofuels destroying American food industry!
Pilgrim's Pride Corp., the world's biggest poultry processor, will
close a U.S. chicken-processing plant and six distribution centers and
cut 1,100 jobs, blaming U.S. ethanol policies for pushing the industry
into``crisis.''
STORY:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=axGaGV2QF_BM&refer=home
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"Government is "sleepwalking into a crisis" - "the land needed for
growing biofuels is competing with land needed for growing food crops
or grazing livestock. So at a time when the world's farmers need to
produce more food, they are being encouraged to grow fuel, which many
scientists and environmentalists believe is not as environmentally
benign as first claimed."
STORY:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/business/1292018/why_food_shortages_are_our_problem.../
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