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... [MORE]

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