food production

No fooling.

PSYCHIATRISTS have detected the first case of "climate change delusion" - and
they haven't even yet got to Kevin Rudd and his global warming guru.

from the American Conservative Union

Vote "NO" on the Farm Bill

Gasoline could go from 10% ethanol up to 20%.

Gasoline could go from 10% ethanol up to 20%.

Lots of geeky scientific details.... (Link...)

Some initial notes:

March is nearly here and that means it is time again for The Great American Meat Out.   Started in 1985, Meat Out is a grassroots campaign designed to spread through education and information the benefits of a meat-free diet.   Events are coordinated by FARM and held in many cities (although Nashville is not one).   The purpose, of course, is to get as many people as possible to “Kick the meat habit”.

Steve Haruch from the Nashville Scene just posted this to their food blog, “Bites”:

I wrote about "The coming 500 mpg car" earlier this month to explore whether the technology presently exists to improve fuels efficiencies enough to obviate the need for significant amounts of imported petroleum.

My long-time readers know that I have opposed corn-produced ethanol from the beginning.

Now the analysts at Popular Mechanics add to the argument: "The Ethanol Fallacy: Op-Ed."

The idea is so appealing: We can reduce our dependence on oil—stop sending U.S. dollars to corrupt petro-dictators, stop spewing megatons of carbon into the atmos¬phere—by replacing it with clean, home-grown