How about we stop burning it?

Another good concept at the UN – Summit targets global food crisis – was quickly exposed as a ridiculous, fraudulent waste of taxpayer money when they allowed Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe to participate. Since he was there, if they’d wanted to do something productive they could have tarred and feathered him and treated him like the murderous thug that he is. But instead they allowed him to attend. They also yapped on about the obvious: stop burning the food, stupid! and planned how to waste more money.

Mr Ban intends to ask the US and other countries to phase out subsidies that encourage farmers to produce for fuel.

UN officials said there would be a range of “confidence-building” options for governments.

The taskforce Mr Ban created to target the food crisis is expected to present a 38-page report with measures that could cost up to $15bn (£7.5bn) to implement.

It will contain short and long-term measures.

In the short term, the report will call for a reduction in tariffs and the provision of subsidies for poorer farmers.

The long-term measures will focus on increased investment.

Peter C. Glover noted the insanity as well.

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