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I really believe that raising taxes on unhealthy foods will effect the poor in a negative way. I am a single mother who works and attends school. There are many evenings that I pick up the well-known T.V. dinner for my children to eat. They really aren't considered to be the healthy meal, but I have no time for anything else. Candy and cakes, yes-but where does the line get drawn?
2. The discussion by Gardner about the use of feed grains for animals feed is a bit misleading. We are seeing a world wide increase of > 10% per year in aquaculture, which has food conversions much better than land animals. Aquatic animals don't have to spend energy fighting gravity and staying warm. This is why farmed salmon use about 1.1 lb of feed (dry wt --which can be soy or corn protein extract based -- more expensive at this time that making salmon diets from fish meal) to produce a lb of salmon, while chickens take 2.5 to 3 lb of feed to make lb of chicken and cows can take more than 5 lb per lb.
3. I didn't realize how rich I was until I read this.
4. The last sentence says it all-" But smart policies can meet those challenges -- and help the world's people to be better off. The whole idea of "smart policies" saving us is one of the silliest things I've read in a long time. Very few "smart policies" come out of our government, I doubt if other governments do much better. Simply put," big money" will rule the market and they will do what they please to insure that they are always, "big money".
5. I love the idea about taxing low calorie food. Use that to supplement the gas tax to help fix our transportation lowing the cost of healthy foods. Your wrong though about how unhealthy Americans are. The rest of the world is catching up, France, Japan and Italy are all on the same obesity tract that we are on they are just 25 years behind us. Calorie dense nutrient poor foods is a global problem effecting all of the developed nations.
6. I grew up on a farm in central United States. My father would begin his work day at 6:00 am to 7:00 pm every day 7 days a week 365 days a year. My father worked very hard for very little money. It was farmers like my father who introduce ethanol to the fuel market and not the environmentalists. Now leaders refer to the recent price of commodities as a “food shortage.” I know that farmers like my father can grow more corn. In fact there was a surplus of 1.5 billion bushels of corn in 2008. That’s enough corn for 33,750,000,000 hamburgers. That's food that will not be used.
7. Enormous amount o of land have been devoted to ethanol and other fuel crops in USA Europe and Brazil. It does have an impact.
8. Food for thought . . .
Submitted by: Lauri in Whittier
2. The discussion by Gardner about the use of feed grains for animals feed is a bit misleading. We are seeing a world wide increase of > 10% per year in aquaculture, which has food conversions much better than land animals. Aquatic animals don't have to spend energy fighting gravity and staying warm. This is why farmed salmon use about 1.1 lb of feed (dry wt --which can be soy or corn protein extract based -- more expensive at this time that making salmon diets from fish meal) to produce a lb of salmon, while chickens take 2.5 to 3 lb of feed to make lb of chicken and cows can take more than 5 lb per lb.
Submitted by: Dallas Weaver, Ph.D.
3. I didn't realize how rich I was until I read this.
Submitted by: Raul the Ghoul
4. The last sentence says it all-" But smart policies can meet those challenges -- and help the world's people to be better off. The whole idea of "smart policies" saving us is one of the silliest things I've read in a long time. Very few "smart policies" come out of our government, I doubt if other governments do much better. Simply put," big money" will rule the market and they will do what they please to insure that they are always, "big money".
Submitted by: Judith
5. I love the idea about taxing low calorie food. Use that to supplement the gas tax to help fix our transportation lowing the cost of healthy foods. Your wrong though about how unhealthy Americans are. The rest of the world is catching up, France, Japan and Italy are all on the same obesity tract that we are on they are just 25 years behind us. Calorie dense nutrient poor foods is a global problem effecting all of the developed nations.
Submitted by: Rep. Mike
6. I grew up on a farm in central United States. My father would begin his work day at 6:00 am to 7:00 pm every day 7 days a week 365 days a year. My father worked very hard for very little money. It was farmers like my father who introduce ethanol to the fuel market and not the environmentalists. Now leaders refer to the recent price of commodities as a “food shortage.” I know that farmers like my father can grow more corn. In fact there was a surplus of 1.5 billion bushels of corn in 2008. That’s enough corn for 33,750,000,000 hamburgers. That's food that will not be used.
Submitted by: Rodney
7. Enormous amount o of land have been devoted to ethanol and other fuel crops in USA Europe and Brazil. It does have an impact.
Submitted by: Alejandro Salazar
8. Food for thought . . .
Submitted by: Hard Rock
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