Michael Darby (pictured) writes: (Opinion)
We have seen and heard and read a rising tide of publicity drawing attention to a global food shortage. There have been predictable calls for wealthy nations including Australia to make even larger cash donations towards feeding the hungry.
I am a former primary producer and former army officer and have visited 53 countries including some of the poorest on earth. I believe that donations provide no permanent solution.
My proposal is that Australia should set an example to the rest of the world with wise policies which will genuinely help in feeding the hungry. Let’s start with abolishing taxation on incomes derived from primary production. For the full explanation of the reasoning behind this please visit http://michaeldarby.net/Feeding.pdf
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The food crisis has been triggered by foolish government policies which has seen massive amounts of grain diverted to producing motor fuel in the Americas and large areas of food land converted to carbon credit plantations of unproductive woody weeds in other countries. These problems will only get worse until someone wakes up it is all a scam to enrich Al Gore and his mates.
No doubt some farmers benefit from this artificial boost to grain prices, but all will lose as all food prices go up. This will be followed by increases in prices for electricity and then a shortage of natural gas and soaring gas prices. We will soon have to decide - do we want food or fuel? Far more sensible to abolish all these silly and unnecessary de-carbonisation proposals and use coal and oil for fuel and land for food. It is OK if farmers can make money from ethanol in an open market with no carbon subsidies, but stupid to subsidise or mandate ethanol production
Michael Darby’s proposals for abolishing taxes on primary production will help - otherwise we will see caps on food prices, so the few farmers left will lose the incentive to produce more food.