Again NPR deflects attention from Ethanol’s food-price effect

07 May Again NPR deflects attention from Ethanol’s food-price effect

May 7, 2011 

In a story covering the release of a study linking higher food prices with global climate change, NPR failed to add any reference to that other huge vector force driving food prices up:  biofuel mandates in the US and Europe.  A list of NPR underwriters that day included the Cargill Corporation, a major player in the biofuel industry.

Motorists cannot be conscientious objectors from ethanol and cannot use their marketplace "vote" to protest the increased food prices, increased greenhouse gases, waste of water and destruction of wildlife habitat of biofuel. Photo by Ed Newbold

Ethanol, (one form of biofuel),  the use of which is forced on the US consumer by mandates, currently diverts about 40% of the US Corn crop and replaces only between 8 and 10% of US motor transport fuel needs.

Another mover and shaker in the politics of biofuels, Archer Daniels Midlands, gave great amounts of money to NPR during the formative years of the ethanol hoax, when the company sponsored anti-intellectual feel-good euphoria with its “Think yellow go green” ads.

The NPR story by Richard Harris from May 7:

http://www.wbez.org/story/2011-05-07/worlds-farmers-feel-effects-hotter-planet-86192