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The Dirty Little Secret Behind The Ethanol Hysteria
By Mr Ethanol | May 26, 2008
Hoosier Ag Today:
An issue that has dominated both the agriculture and consumer media over the past few months has been the debate over ethanol.
As I have reported several times, the mainstream media has maintained an aggressive and one-sided attack on ethanol and renewable fuels.
They have blamed corn-based fuel for everything from higher food prices, to world hunger, environmental degradation, resource depletion and impoverishment of the livestock producers. Now it turns out that the whole thing is a sham, a hoax, spin, a put-up job, a well-funded manipulation of the media. In other words, we have all been had by the big time food industry.
Recently several readers have taken me to task on this issue, so let me offer the results of an investigation by Roll Call newspaper. According to the Capitol Hill publication, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) has been “leading an “aggressive” public relations campaign for the past two months in an effort to roll back ethanol mandates that passed in last year‘s Energy Bill. The association hired Glover Park Group to run a six-month campaign; according to GMA‘s own documents, “GMA has concluded that rising food prices create a window to change perceptions about the benefits of bio-fuels and the mandate.” GMA‘s Scott Faber said it was high time the group, which represents many of the nation‘s largest food, beverage and household goods companies, joined the debate. GMA has done more than just join the debate, they have taken it over. Full article.
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