The mayor of Rapid City, S.D., Friday pleaded with residents to stay home as a May blizzard closed down streets and highways in parts of the state.
"Please, stay off the roads until the weather clears. The wind is still gusting to 50 mph with heavy snow," said Mayor Alan Hanks. "There are very few businesses that are going to open, so take a day off and enjoy it."
"Multinationals make billions in profit out of growing global food crisis"
"Giant agribusinesses are enjoying soaring earnings and profits out of the world food crisis which is driving millions of people towards starvation, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. And speculation is helping to drive the prices of basic foodstuffs out of the reach of the hungry....
The World Bank says that 100 million more people are facing severe hunger. Yet some of the world's richest food companies are making record profits....
Benedict Southworth, director of the World Development Movement, called the escalating earnings and profits "immoral" late last week. He said that the benefits of the food price increases were being kept by the big companies...."
They sound like the oil companies.
And get this:
"Exposed: the great GM crops myth"
"Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.
The study – carried out over the past three years at the University of Kansas in the US grain belt – has found that GM soya produces about 10 per cent less food than its conventional equivalent, contradicting assertions by advocates of the technology that it increases yields.
Professor Barney Gordon, of the university's department of agronomy, said he started the research – reported in the journal Better Crops – because many farmers who had changed over to the GM crop had "noticed that yields are not as high as expected even under optimal conditions." He added: "People were asking the question 'how come I don't get as high a yield as I used to?'"
Pffffttt!
So not only is their "solution" yielding less food, it is killing off the bees, too!
Yeah, ethanol was a real good idea!
If you are going to burn food, you can start with these mutated Frankenfoods!
Then you can eat the rich.
