"Ann" wrote in message
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Charlie expounded:

Full article at:

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/27/1485/

Battle for Biofuels Drives World Food Prices Higher

America's thirst for environmentally friendly biofuels
is driving up food prices around the world as farmers
scramble to devote more land to corn.


Is the US government still paying farmers to *not* grow crops?
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Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
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Yes. Something that escapes lawmakers and the judicial system is that the
U.S. paid farmers to grow tobacco in early 60s in the form of a farming
subsidy. I won't forget it.
Dave