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To: tejek who wrote (371866)	2/24/2008 3:36:04 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578544

"We are using an important food crop and livestock feed and converting it to ethanol. Couple that will the global failure of wheat crops in several parts of the world, price of certain foods is jumping like mad." Which is similar to what happened in the 1970s. But then it wasn't corn and wheat. Then it was fish meal and soybeans that started the ball rolling. Here are some graphs. www4.ncsu.edu Fish meal is commonly used as a protein supplement for a variety of uses, like animal feed. Soybeans can be used also. But, by the early 1970s, soybeans were being used for a lot of other things, too. So when the fish meal went away, there was strong pressure to substitute soybeans. But, that meant all those other uses for soybeans got starved. And the repercussions were enormous.