Comments on: Food Security Achievable by Abolishing Tax on Farms http://www.agmates.com/blog/2008/05/07/food-security-achievable-by-abolishing-tax-on-farms/ Rural News and Commentary Written by Rural People-for-Rural People Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:34:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Viv Forbes http://www.agmates.com/blog/2008/05/07/food-security-achievable-by-abolishing-tax-on-farms/#comment-1701 Viv Forbes Thu, 15 May 2008 17:51:10 +0000 http://www.agmates.com/blog/?p=446#comment-1701 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. 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.

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