Convincing Congress... or not.

Lester Brown speaks the truth... whatever that means.

Congress' idea of food reform is turning all the corn into the ethanol to fuel cars. This is almost laughable since it would probably only result in the production of more corn since both our cows and are cars will be consuming it. Brown speaks of something unthinkable to most- a real reform.

In his imaginary future the cows eat grass. Imagine that, if you can. In his future the cars are electrically powered and there are less of them. The Midwestern farms will be wind turbine pastures for cows to graze in. There will be intercity light rails, and the number of hungry people in world will cease to rise as it continues to. In the mid 1990s there were around 850 million hungry mouths, now there are over 1 billion. And the corn still stands tall and proud and we continue to stuff ourselves with fake food and empty calories- all at the expense of our beloved farmers.