Noam Chomsky: " Starving the Poor"

And you thought Mary Elizabeth Lease's slogan "Raise less corn and more Hell!" was just some cute phrase to decorate our Kansas protest banners with in the 1890s.

Dr. Noam Chomsky describes the scathing reality of the "US stampede" for ethanol is disrupting food stocks outside our borders. Making more terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan, starvation in the countries to our south spells which will "even more greivously defy international order."

Excerpt: "Increasingly, bio fuels are likely to “starve the poor” around the world, according to Runge and Senauer, as staples are converted to ethanol production for the privileged — cassava in sub-Saharan Africa, to take one ominous example. Meanwhile, in Southeast Asia, tropical forests are cleared and burned for oil palms destined for bio fuel, and there are threatening environmental effects from input-rich production of corn-based ethanol in the United States as well."