Nate Beeler has an an excellent editorial cartoon, “Food for Thought,” that captures the deadly and costly consequences of ethanol subsidies, in today’s Washington Examiner. Many go hungry because of the greed of a few. We wrote earlier about how ethanol subsidies are causing hunger and starvation worldwide. Rioting and violent protests have occurred in many countries, including Mexico, Pakistan, Egypt, Indonesia, Haiti, El Salvador, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Senegal, Ethiopia, Mauritania, Madagascar, and the Philippines. Ethanol subsidies are also contributing to environmental destruction.
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Maybe you can answer a question for me.
If we end ALL subsidies for American farmers, how are they able to stay in business.
What i mean is, WHO is going to buy their crops? Poor families in Haiti? Africa? Asia?
The market would correct itself in the long run… farmers would fold, markets would adjust… and so on.
But in the short term, farmers would fold, food prices would soar at home, and we would be dependent on foreign sources for foodstuffs.
Got any solutions?
Thank you,
R. McDonald