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Where's the Beef, Indeed: A Steak Shortage Hits N.Y.

Submitted by SAM, Aug 8, 2007 12:34

Myconcern is not weather I can get a filet at Mortons. My concern is that this ethanol production will produce world famine. If you were to beleive that Global warming is true then you should beleive that the shortage of corn, rice and other food products are going to go to big ethanol for fuel production. The UN has already reported that there is a food shortage but has failed to directly correlate this to the crops going to produce fuel. It is ironic that the suppossed leader in Global warming "UN" is complaining that there could be famine when it was them that have supported the hysteria of Global warming. You can be sure that all agriculture food prices will increase dramatically because of the shortage of food products. This will effect beef, chicken vegtables as well as beleive it or not plastics. One item to note is that we willnot have a 100 years of supply from agriculture based fuel. The US cannot produce enough biofuel to replace the current consumption. Unless we change our habits drastically, politicians included, we are going to be completely hypocrtical and counter productive. We should demand that the people who tell us they way we should live should do do tehm selves. i.e. Al gore flying around in a private jet. Completely unncecessay don't you think?

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There are a number of logic issues with this article not least of which is that it takes one position... [MORE]	Joe G	Aug 15, 2007 14:50
I know that everyone is talking about the rising prices of corn and there for many other products that rely... [MORE]	Josh	Aug 11, 2007 10:31
Ethanol has been used for a long time as a fuel for motor vehicles. When VW discontinued the Bug in... [MORE]	Ken Schmidt	Aug 10, 2007 00:21
There's an old saying: "Don't (pee) down my back, and tell me it's raining". Ethanol production creates a high-protein cattle feed... [MORE]	Curt T.	Aug 9, 2007 08:34
Ethanol producers receive the government subsidies, not the farmers [MORE]	db	Aug 9, 2007 08:12
Ethanol equals higher corn prices --- Higher corn prices equal lower goverment payments--- USA 's food supply is still the... [MORE]	Ted Koehler	Aug 9, 2007 07:49
I find this slice, tough to chew considering the US Dept . of Energy lists only 9 E85 stations in... [MORE]	MP	Aug 9, 2007 07:42
The use of corn in making ethanol should not cause a shortage in cattle feed. Sugar and yeast are added... [MORE]	Earl	Aug 9, 2007 07:00
There is NOT a shortage of Natural Prime Certified Angus Beef in our feedlot. In fact we have a hard... [MORE]	Bill Boston	Aug 9, 2007 10:31
Take a quick look at commodity prices and you'll see that the price of corn is down significantly from last... [MORE]	Cornhusker	Aug 9, 2007 02:02
and the factually starved media feeds the bull to the sheep. . . [MORE]	hoot1zero	Oct 20, 2007 19:25
We should not use the food supply for fuel. This concept just puts a bandaid on the problem and then... [MORE]	Jim Doherty	Aug 9, 2007 00:25
You want energy independence? Start drilling for oil in Alaska and stop using food as fuel. There is tons of... [MORE]	Eric	Aug 9, 2007 08:43
Why don't this nation drill in the 36,000 square mile National Petroleum Reserve created in 1923 by President Harding? Let... [MORE]	Ben Martin	Aug 21, 2007 11:09
Anyone with an eight-inch of fore-brain could have predicted that as more corn was being planted for fuel that less... [MORE]	Eric	Aug 8, 2007 22:19
If only someone could come up with a methane capture device for cattle, then we could mix beans in with... [MORE]	John Bowers	Aug 8, 2007 22:03
Your article seems to be so strange with its assertion that prime beef is so difficult to find. At the... [MORE]	Gene	Aug 8, 2007 20:26
You can buy excellent grass fed beef online at www.tallgrassbeef.com. No ethanol concerns because they eat grass, and are grass... [MORE]	jeff	Aug 8, 2007 20:01
I get tired of reading articles like this where beef marketing folks complain and lay blame upon the growing ethanol... [MORE]	Ken Schmidt	Aug 8, 2007 19:50
Ethanol can be made from cheaper plant entities than corn. Not as efficiently or as easily perhaps, but it would... [MORE]	Tom	Aug 8, 2007 19:04
The effect is massisve, yearly dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico for the selfish benefit of American farms that... [MORE]	William Yurt	Aug 22, 2007 16:17
We have so many other resources to produce so many other clean fuels but they are hardly ever mentioned. Governement... [MORE]	Josh	Aug 8, 2007 17:41
Nowhere does it say that ethanol will solve emissions or any other fuel issue. In fact, it costs the environment... [MORE]	US Beef	Aug 8, 2007 16:33
As you fly across this huge country you see how little of this nation is being utilized. Lots of vacant... [MORE]	Cliff Replogle	Aug 8, 2007 16:16
Why should the public have low cost steak and the government supplment the corn farmers income so they cqn produce... [MORE]	Ted Kuck	Aug 8, 2007 15:22
This is so reminiscent of the "natural gas" craze in the late 80's/early 90's. Everywhere one looked, manufacturers were rushing... [MORE]	JeanneB	Aug 8, 2007 14:38
Let them eat cake [MORE]	Jack from Indy	Aug 8, 2007 14:14
Why don't we import sugar from Brazil instead of using expensive subsidized American corn. Oh, I know - the American... [MORE]	Patrick Wilson	Aug 8, 2007 14:04
Corn is like any other commodity. When the demand exceeds the supply, the price goes up until the demand equals... [MORE]	S Metcalf	Aug 8, 2007 13:17
This is just another way the industrialization of food production is coming back to bite us in the ass. [MORE]	K	Aug 8, 2007 12:48
Why don't we just grow more corn? [MORE]	JT	Aug 8, 2007 12:38
Myconcern is not weather I can get a filet at Mortons. My concern is that this ethanol production will produce...	SAM	Aug 8, 2007 12:34
Not mentioned in the article is the inherent bias in meat grading by the FDA against Grass Fed Cattle. The... [MORE]	Will	Aug 8, 2007 12:31
Maybe the kook left socialist wanna be Democrats outlawed it like so many other things they did in that left... [MORE]	Glenn Reynolds	Aug 8, 2007 12:16
Am I the only person in the world that cannot get a good meal at Lugar's? Have been there twice and... [MORE]	carl palm	Aug 8, 2007 11:59
The steak shortage is the latest casualty of the diversion of corn from food to energy. Of course were the... [MORE]	Art Fougner MD	Aug 8, 2007 11:46
Higher food prices is only one of the unintended consequences of ethanol production. It still consumes more energy in making... [MORE]	William Hofmeister	Aug 10, 2007 17:14
.. and burn food. Ethanol for fuel is the thirdmost stupid idea they've ever come up with, (Welfare being first... [MORE]	Mike	Aug 8, 2007 10:42
It is a sad sad day. [MORE]	Dave Oliver	Aug 8, 2007 10:35
you know...this cause/effect relationship between ethanol and other products should be put to use... why not make it out of... [MORE]	chad	Aug 8, 2007 10:29
Is it any surprise that when corn is used to make fuel - which is the most stupid idea to... [MORE]	Budd Gray	Aug 8, 2007 10:28
Nature designed cows to eat grass any way..There are many hidden benefits to eating cows raised on pasture rather than... [MORE]	d.m. j.	Aug 8, 2007 10:24
As a farmer and rancher for many years, I can attest that rising feed prices are not passed on to... [MORE]	Gene Spainhour	Aug 8, 2007 10:13
Making ethanol from food is about the craziest thing I have ever heard. There are strains of soil bacteria that... [MORE]	Darren	Aug 8, 2007 10:07
The less steak, "meat", eggs, and dairy available from slaughtered fellow-beings, the better! While I'm not crazy about ethanol or... [MORE]	Stephen Belter	Aug 8, 2007 10:06
The self loathing blather, best illustrated by this vegan Darwinian award candidate, flies in the face of some million or... [MORE]	B Dubya	Aug 9, 2007 14:18
While I too expected limited supply and rapidly rising prices I have been buying boneless NY Strip steaks at $3.99 a... [MORE]	Doug Littlefield	Aug 8, 2007 09:57
The need to use ethanol by products will be one of the main drivers of the cattle business the next... [MORE]	Matthew J Cherni	Aug 8, 2007 08:36
Putting food in our gas tanks is virtually a waste of food. Of course for the "rich" who can afford prime... [MORE]	Reality Bytes	Aug 8, 2007 10:12
There is no NEED for ethanol, especially corn based ethanol, which is absolutely not the answer to our energy problems... [MORE]	Shardanacles	Aug 8, 2007 12:35
Let the Ethanol producers have the corn!!! Real steak lovers know that it is the grass grazing cattle that produce... [MORE]	Margo	Aug 8, 2007 15:10
When the price of beef to the "average" restaurant equals the price of seed and fertilzer and everything else that... [MORE]	Harry Gallant, FMR, ENT., AH.	Aug 8, 2007 19:22
Boy i wish these people would figure out who is makeing all the money on the beef. Look at all... [MORE]	Albert Henning	Aug 8, 2007 21:56
Hyyyyybriiiiid... every car in America should be hybrid. We've got the technology, it should become law. I don't have any... [MORE]	Vic	Aug 14, 2007 15:07

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