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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 |
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I know that everyone is talking about the rising prices of corn and there for many other products that rely... [MORE] |
Josh |
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Ethanol has been used for a long time as a fuel for motor vehicles. When VW discontinued the Bug in... [MORE] |
Ken Schmidt |
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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. |
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Ethanol producers receive the government subsidies, not the farmers [MORE] |
db |
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Ethanol equals higher corn prices --- Higher corn prices equal lower goverment payments--- USA 's food supply is still the... [MORE] |
Ted Koehler |
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I find this slice, tough to chew considering the US Dept . of Energy lists only 9 E85 stations in... [MORE] |
MP |
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The use of corn in making ethanol should not cause a shortage in cattle feed. Sugar and yeast are added... [MORE] |
Earl |
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There is NOT a shortage of Natural Prime Certified Angus Beef in our feedlot. In fact we have a hard... [MORE] |
Bill Boston |
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Take a quick look at commodity prices and you'll see that the price of corn is down significantly from last... [MORE] |
Cornhusker |
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and the factually starved media feeds the bull to the sheep. . . [MORE] |
hoot1zero |
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We should not use the food supply for fuel. This concept just puts a bandaid on the problem and then... [MORE] |
Jim Doherty |
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You want energy independence? Start drilling for oil in Alaska and stop using food as fuel. There is tons of... [MORE] |
Eric |
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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 |
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Anyone with an eight-inch of fore-brain could have predicted that as more corn was being planted for fuel that less... [MORE] |
Eric |
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If only someone could come up with a methane capture device for cattle, then we could mix beans in with... [MORE] |
John Bowers |
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Your article seems to be so strange with its assertion that prime beef is so difficult to find. At the... [MORE] |
Gene |
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You can buy excellent grass fed beef online at www.tallgrassbeef.com. No ethanol concerns because they eat grass, and are grass... |
jeff |
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I get tired of reading articles like this where beef marketing folks complain and lay blame upon the growing ethanol... [MORE] |
Ken Schmidt |
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Ethanol can be made from cheaper plant entities than corn. Not as efficiently or as easily perhaps, but it would... [MORE] |
Tom |
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The effect is massisve, yearly dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico for the selfish benefit of American farms that... [MORE] |
William Yurt |
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We have so many other resources to produce so many other clean fuels but they are hardly ever mentioned. Governement... [MORE] |
Josh |
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Nowhere does it say that ethanol will solve emissions or any other fuel issue. In fact, it costs the environment... [MORE] |
US Beef |
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As you fly across this huge country you see how little of this nation is being utilized. Lots of vacant... [MORE] |
Cliff Replogle |
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Why should the public have low cost steak and the government supplment the corn farmers income so they cqn produce... [MORE] |
Ted Kuck |
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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 |
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Let them eat cake [MORE] |
Jack from Indy |
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Why don't we import sugar from Brazil instead of using expensive subsidized American corn. Oh, I know - the American... [MORE] |
Patrick Wilson |
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Corn is like any other commodity. When the demand exceeds the supply, the price goes up until the demand equals... [MORE] |
S Metcalf |
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This is just another way the industrialization of food production is coming back to bite us in the ass. [MORE] |
K |
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Why don't we just grow more corn? [MORE] |
JT |
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Myconcern is not weather I can get a filet at Mortons. My concern is that this ethanol production will produce... [MORE] |
SAM |
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Not mentioned in the article is the inherent bias in meat grading by the FDA against Grass Fed Cattle. The... [MORE] |
Will |
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Maybe the kook left socialist wanna be Democrats outlawed it like so many other things they did in that left... [MORE] |
Glenn Reynolds |
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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 |
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The steak shortage is the latest casualty of the diversion of corn from food to energy. Of course were the... [MORE] |
Art Fougner MD |
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Higher food prices is only one of the unintended consequences of ethanol production. It still consumes more energy in making... [MORE] |
William Hofmeister |
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.. and burn food. Ethanol for fuel is the thirdmost stupid idea they've ever come up with, (Welfare being first... [MORE] |
Mike |
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It is a sad sad day. [MORE] |
Dave Oliver |
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you know...this cause/effect relationship between ethanol and other products should be put to use... why not make it out of... [MORE] |
chad |
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Is it any surprise that when corn is used to make fuel - which is the most stupid idea to... [MORE] |
Budd Gray |
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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. |
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As a farmer and rancher for many years, I can attest that rising feed prices are not passed on to... [MORE] |
Gene Spainhour |
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Making ethanol from food is about the craziest thing I have ever heard. There are strains of soil bacteria that... [MORE] |
Darren |
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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 |
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The self loathing blather, best illustrated by this vegan Darwinian award candidate, flies in the face of some million or... [MORE] |
B Dubya |
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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 |
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The need to use ethanol by products will be one of the main drivers of the cattle business the next... [MORE] |
Matthew J Cherni |
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Putting food in our gas tanks is virtually a waste of food. Of course for the "rich" who can afford prime... [MORE] |
Reality Bytes |
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There is no NEED for ethanol, especially corn based ethanol, which is absolutely not the answer to our energy problems... [MORE] |
Shardanacles |
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Let the Ethanol producers have the corn!!! Real steak lovers know that it is the grass grazing cattle that produce... [MORE] |
Margo |
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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. |
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Boy i wish these people would figure out who is makeing all the money on the beef. Look at all... [MORE] |
Albert Henning |
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Hyyyyybriiiiid... every car in America should be hybrid. We've got the technology, it should become law. I don't have any... [MORE] |
Vic |
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