The End of Cheap Food
The Economist has an article about rising food prices. What I found most remarkable is that the corn which provides a single fill-up of ethanol to an SUV could instead feed a man for a year. A year! Our addiction to driving is as immoral as it is absurd: to feed it we are willing to burn up the last of the Midwestern topsoil in our engines; to feed it we are willing to take food from the mouths of the poor; to feed it we are willing to suck the life from our cities and the safety from our streets.
