Word: corns
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Given how much the changing climate, rising fuel prices, and declining food supplies have been in the news lately, you’ve no doubt heard some arguments against the use of corn-derived ethanol as an energy source...
...politicians were really serious about tackling climate change and reducing dependence on oil, they would help bring electric vehicles to the market. Providing enormous subsidies to corn ethanol has little to do with addressing climate change; it is another giveaway to the powerful farm lobby and agribusiness. We need bold and tangible solutions to the interrelated problems of climate change, energy and food. Surabhi Gupta, Natick, Mass...
...demand in countries such as China and India, where millions of increasingly prosperous people are eating more; short-term supply shocks thanks to unusually cold weather and pest infestation in Vietnam, the world's second largest supplier of rice; and the diversion of a huge chunk of America's corn crop to ethanol production, which has boosted demand for other staples, including rice...
...loved Warung Nasu Ibu Eha, tel: (62-22) 426 2745, a little food stall deep in the heart of Pasar Cihapit, one of the city's oldest markets. I've been eating there since I was a kid and the menu still hasn't changed. I love the perkedel (corn fritters), rice noodles and the fried tofu. Or you could try picking something up at Het Snoephuis, an 80-year-old Dutch bakery also known by its Indonesian name Sumber Hidangan, tel: (62-22) 423 6638. The same lady has been working as a cashier there for 48 years. After...
...doesn't our government tell the tobacco growers to replace 10% of their crops with corn or soybeans? If they did this for 10 years, we could lower the rate of the nation's No. 1 preventable cause of death--smoking--while providing more sources for biofuel. Of course, politicians from tobacco-growing states would never allow this. Gary Dillingham, HOMER...