The Missing Cookie Campaign has been a huge success. Brooke Coleman has done interviews with: Fox Business News and radio interviews with: The Young Turks on XM Satellite Radio, KDWN, KTRH, KPNW, WTDY, WRUF, AgriTalk, Clear Channel in Omaha, KPAM and the CBS Radio Network.

Attention New Yorkers, Brooke Coleman will be in WBAI this afternoon talking more about food companies and their prices!

Today at around 6:30 pm, EST, Brooke Coleman, FoodPriceTruth.org spokesman, will be on Fox Business News talking about yesterday’s report which found food companies are raising food prices to fatten their bottom line.

Be sure to tune in!

The New York Times has an interesting story today titled: “Gassing Up With Garbage.”

It looks at the benefits of developing biofuels from waste - and the challenges that remain to make this happen on a viable, large-scale commercial scale. David Morris, a FoodPriceTruth.org Food Price Expert is quoted talking about the biofuels mandate passed by Congress:

“One has to say upfront that what Congress has done is remarkable in its bravery,” said David Morris, vice president of the Institute for Local Self Reliance, a group in Minneapolis that advocates biofuels.

Yesterday, the Massachusetts House of Representatives passed legislation to promote biofuels development in the state.  Here is a great quote from our very own Brooke Coleman:

“Oil dependence exacts a huge toll on the Massachusetts economy. Consumers spend more on petroleum every year than natural gas and electricity combined, and 80 cents of every dollar spent on gasoline exits the local economy,” said Brooke Coleman, executive director of the New Fuels Alliance. “This bill puts Massachusetts on the map as a national leader in the effort to commercialize advanced biofuels, and is good news for those interested in seeing something other than oil at the pump.”

In the Sacramento Bee, Brooke Coleman has a great op-ed exposing the link between corporate profits and rising food prices.  Way to go Brooke. We could not have said it better ourselves.

So says Jeff Stager of the Waterloo (Canada) Federation of Agriculture.   Writing in the Record Newspaper, Mr. Stager says: 

Food prices are in fact influenced by biofuel production, but the influence is minor, and a poor reason for policy decisions. Were there no ethanol, the price of food would not go down. The reality is that at the grocery store 95 per cent plus of the cost of food is in the supply chain, from transportation to storage to advertising to retailing.

We at FoodPriceTruth.org couldn’t have said it better ourselves.

John Caupert, the director of the National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center at SIU’s Edwardsville campus, slammed yesterday the food before fuel campaign as “misinformation.”  The article states:

He produced an 18-ounce box of corn flakes he had just purchased for $4.40. He said 12 cents of that came from the price of corn.

If that whole box contains only 12 cents of corn where does the other $4.28 come from? Why won’t GMA tell us? 

The Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank which doubts global warming, today blogged about the UK report on biofuels and how ethanol does nothing to contain global warming. 

It’s obvious, Heritage is doing the bidding of the oil companies.  Heritage is attacking biofuels with anything they can get their hands on even charging ethanol production ”has not changed global climates.”

What’s next from Heritage? Biofuels are bad for labor unions? Gimme a break.

Today, The Wall Street Journal’s “Best of The Web” mentioned a KTRH radio story which featured FoodPriceTruth.org’s Brooke Coleman explaining the reason for higher food prices. Now, if we could only get the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page to agree with us. Dare to dream.