" ... A result of the bio-fuel revolution in agriculture is that world carryover or reserve stocks of grains have been plunging for six of the past seven years..."

This is not the result, it is the purpose as the article in fact tells us!

When the US gives up to sustain itself by producing goods and services to cover people's needs, the only alternative is to produce scarcity!

That is what happens all over the place: GM crops have nothing to do with higher yields or pesticide resistance, but it has everything to do with creating scarcity: You cannot any longer engage in subsistence farming because the seeds of the GM crops are barren, if you want to eat you have to pay royalty to Monsanto!

If you had your organic, God given crops polluted with Monsanto's GM seeds, you will be taken to court for license infringement!

BTW, you probably know who are behind Monsanto?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto

Monsanto was founded in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1901, by John Francis Queeny, a 30-year veteran of the pharmaceutical industry.

He funded the start-up with his own money and capital from a soft drink distributor, and gave the company his wife's maiden name. The company's first product was the artificial sweetener saccharin, which it sold to the Coca-Cola Company. It also introduced caffeine and vanillin to Coca-Cola, and became one of that company's main suppliers.

In 1919, Monsanto established its presence in Europe by entering into a partnership with Graesser's Chemical Works at Cefn Mawr in Ruabon, Wales to produce vanillin, salicylic acid, aspirin and later rubber.

In its second decade, the 1920s, Monsanto expanded into basic industrial chemicals like sulfuric acid, and the decade ended with Queeny's son Edgar Monsanto Queeny taking over the company in 1928.

The 1940s saw Monsanto become a leading manufacturer of plastics, including polystyrene, and synthetic fibers. Since then, it has remained one of the top 10 US chemical companies. Other major products have included the herbicides 2,4,5-T and Agent Orange), aspartame (NutraSweet), bovine somatotropin (bovine growth hormone; BST), and PCBs.

Also in this decade, Monsanto operated the Dayton Project, and later Mound Laboratory in Miamisburg, Ohio, for the Manhattan Project, the development of the first nuclear weapons and, after 1947, the Atomic Energy Commission.

In 1947, an accidental explosion of ammonium nitrate fertilizer loaded on the French ship S.S. Grandcamp destroyed an adjacent Monsanto styrene manufacturing plant, along with much of the port at Galveston Bay. The explosion, known as the Texas City Disaster, is considered the largest industrial accident in US history, with the highest death toll. As the decade ended, Monsanto acquired American Viscose from England's Courtauld family in 1949.

In 1954, Monsanto partnered with German chemical giant Bayer to form Mobay and market polyurethanes in the US. In the 1960s and 1970s, Monsanto became the leading producer of Agent Orange for US Military operations in Vietnam.[citation needed]

1980 saw Monsanto establish the Edgar Monsanto Queeny safety award [1] in honor of its former CEO (1928–1960), to encourage accident prevention.

Monsanto scientists became the first to genetically modify a plant cell in 1982.[citation needed] Five years later, Monsanto conducted the first field tests of genetically engineered crops.

Through a process of mergers and spin-offs between 1997 and 2002, Monsanto has made a transition from chemical giant to biotech giant. Part of this process involved the 1999 sale by Monsanto of their phenylalanine facilities to Great Lakes Chemical (GLC) for $125 million. In 2000, GLC sued Monsanto because of a $71 million dollar shortfall in expected sales.

With the dawn of the new millennium in 2001, retired Monsanto chemist William S. Knowles was named a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his research on catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation, which was carried out at Monsanto beginning in the 1960s until his 1986 retirement.

Throughout 2004 and 2005, Monsanto filed lawsuits against many farmers in Canada and the U.S. The lawsuits have been on the grounds of patent infringement, specifically the farmer's sale of seed containing Monsanto's patented genes–which require the farmer initial purchase of the seed and its technology–unknowingly sown by wind carrying the seeds from neighboring crops.

These instances began in the mid to late 1990s, with one of the most significant cases being decided in Monsanto's favor by the Canadian Supreme Court. By a 5-4 vote in late May of 2004, that court ruled that "by cultivating a plant containing the patented gene and composed of the patented cells without license, the appellants [canola farmer Percy Schmeiser] deprived the respondents of the full enjoyment of the monopoly." With this ruling, the Canadian courts followed the U.S. Supreme Court in its decision on patent issues involving plants and genes.

As of February of 2005, Monsanto has patent claims on breeding techniques for pigs which would grant them ownership of any pigs born of such techniques and their related herds.

Greenpeace claims Monsanto is trying to claim ownership on ordinary breeding techniques.[2] Monsanto claims that the patent is a defensive measure to track animals from its system. They furthermore claim their patented method uses a specialized insemination device that requires less sperm than is typically required.[3]

In 2006, the Public Patent Foundation filed requests with the U.S. Patent Office to revoke four patents that Monsanto has used in patent lawsuits against farmers. In the first round of reexamination, claims in all four patents were rejected by the Patent Office in four separate rulings dating from February through July 2007[4]. Monsanto has since filed responses in the reexaminations.

Corporate governance:

Current members of the board of directors of Monsanto are: Frank V. AtLee III, John W. Bachmann, Hugh Grant, Arthur H. Harper, Gwendolyn S. King, Sharon R. Long, C. Steven McMillan, William U. Parfet, George H. Poste, Robert J. Stevens.

Former Monsanto employees currently hold positions in US government agencies such as the FDA and EPA and even the Supreme Court. These include Clarence Thomas, Michael Taylor, Ann Veneman and Linda Fisher.[citation needed] Linda Fisher has even been back and forth between positions at Monsanto and the EPA.[citation needed]Donald Rumsfeld reportedly earned $12 million from increased stock value when G. D. Searle & Company was sold to Monsanto in 1985.[5]

..not only is this yet another scam, but it's also genocide..

..just like that new diesel additive that reduces efficiency for 'the environment'.

..with wars to keep us off balance, the oil prices up; yet pillaged by the jUSS Enterprize fascists..

..already, the prices of corn, wheat, milk, transpo etc, are rising..

..and the famine continues with zimbabwe not being able to afford it's wheat shipment..

..deliberate starvation is a coward's weapon, and cheap at that.

..looks like the fourth horseman is well on his way..

There was a similar event in the first world WAR too.

http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/AtoZ/HalExpl.html

Play with war toys and innocent folks get KILLED in gargantuan events.

I am betting if folks don't mind the store with a LOT more care A S.S. Grandcamp screw up will be seen to wake up the populous of Planet hell.

Anyone wanna guess the up anti of this education for the "head in sand" masses of our world?

First you take D.C. Then you take New York (:

All figures are measured in metric tons, coal equivalent. At these rates, the world will produce and consume at the following energy levels this year (in metric tons of coal equivalents):
1) Energy Production: 11.9 billion
2) Energy Consumption: 11.2 billion
3) Oil consumption: 4.3 billion
4) Coal Consumption: 4.3 billion
5) Solar Energy Striking the Earth's Surface: 2,700 billion`metric tons of coal`

from http://www.worldometers.info/

And we creep along at 4.3 billion in oil Eh?

Something other than energy is going on in Bush's cranial unit.

Some call it Death wasting all that food this plan would call for.

6.6 billion folks live on the rock called earth.

Food is not going to be toyed with like this.

GMO my ass. Take your franken food away. Keep your terminator seed for your own land America.

First you take D.C. Then you take New York (:

I thought it was Dow Chemical..it's interesting to know, after all these years, who really came up with that crap!

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To Jesus Through Mary

..yah, there is indeed another agenda that bush follows; genocide, or.. population 'control'

..who cares about the millions that will be starved to death if we can be less efficient, yet live in a (yet another) delusion of grandeur, being how clean we are..