[Painthappy]

Well, there was a show on Genetically Modified foods and how you probably eat it already and don't know about it. They tossed out something like 58% of wheat products sold in stores already uses Genetically modified products.

Personally... I have no problem with it. I see it as nothing different than that Monk Mendel did on his own cross pollinating and creating hybrids to withstand harsher climates, more yield, etc.

Truly this is the type of stuff that is really needed so certain crops can survive in harsher climates to feed more people in other countries.

As for food prices?

It's just a direct result of higher prices around the board. It's pretty simple. It costs more to RUN equipment to dig, fertilize, and then harvest. Then, you need to transport, run more equipment to bag and box, and then transport again to the market... That alone raises prices.

Corn is being used for ethanol, and driving up corn prices... But corn is also feed. This now-high-priced feed, drives up your initial bottom line costs. Things like chicken which trickle down to eggs, etc.

Ethanol is also a poor substitute. Ethanol in its purest form is ONLY E85 (or 85 octane). States that mandate that you use 10% in the fuel mix are screwing you... New Hampshire is one of the screwed up states right now. You take 93 Octane fuel and mix it with E85, well then, you no longer have 93 Octane now do you? You're paying more for less octane, and less mileage.

Ethanol was a sham from the start, and you can probably go back and read about me saying so... But politicians jumped on the Look-at-me-I'm-going-green-and-my-constituents-will-love-me band wagon. Without ever thinking of the consequences of their immediate actions.

Ethanol has been around for years, heck, even my 1999 Ford Ranger had an engine that would accept 100% ethanol back then. But Ethanol is a poor substitute and no one used it. It's not only because of the crop thing... But because of the E85 at it's best thing, and because it takes too much fuel to create 1 gallon of ethanol. The ratio is very poor.

As for "non-traditional media outlets, bypass all these “excuses” and point the finger directly at the similarities between our current situation and previous man-made famines for the end purpose of mass genocide."

That's just plain silly, and there is a reason people are called "nut jobs". That would be the prime example of one.