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Converting corn and soybeans into fuels is contributing to higher food prices worldwide.

The world is down to its lowest grain stocks for decades, and food prices are way up around the world. There are riots over the price of basic foods in Mexico and India, and in Jakarta, Indonesia. Low-income Americans are also feeling the pinch. Global warming? David Kagan, author of Sunstroke, wrote about food riots in the book Doomwatch Legacy.

A growing middle class in the developing world and demand for biofuel alternatives are driving up the price of food worldwide.

We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before.

CRAZY ARABS: The preferred food for millions of chickens around the world is green soy beans. It is mainly imported from Brazil by ships like this one, which release tons of carbon dioxide, causing the ice at the poles to melt, and the sea level rises, and as a result, the water floods some of these beautiful islands