I don’t care what he’s reacting to. If it took this Indian-born researcher to get him to understand the link between our stupid policies and the world food shortage then he’s a bigger dope then I had thought. Ron Paul and others have been saying this for months if not years but none of them made comments implying that international government bodies or other nations would or should restrict our consumption. Our consumption has nearly nothing to do with that report anyway. She’s talking about subsidies and redirection causing increased demand raising prices. She first talks about the waste in "farm to fork" but I’d like to see exactly how she claims it can be done better. She sounds ("when things go awry on the unregulated world commodities markets as they have") like a typical greeny eco-liberal bitching about big-arga who wants everyone to grow tomatoes in on their apartment roof. I’d bet if current farm to fork methods were so expensive the market would figure out a cheaper method if possible. She, like Obama, make allusions to more and greater government control without outright coming out and saying it nor do they have a strong understanding of economics and the effects of interventionism.

And what the hell is wrong with ‘Land that once grew food or grazed cattle or sheep is now called upon to produce vast amounts of corn and other grains to be turned into ethanol,” she says. “To eat, these families now have to purchase what they once grew.’ in and of itself? So what? If they are making more money that way then growing something else…. I fail to see the problem. They are reacting to the market as it’s been manipulated. If the money doesn’t provide the same same quality of living that the food they used to grow did they fucked up and should go back to the old methods. Otherwise they are idiots. What has happened has nothing to do with unregulated markets and has everything to do with interventionist government policies.