http://blog.foodpricetruth.org Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:42:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday, U.S. Senator Charles Grassley sent a letter to C. Manly Molpus, Scott Faber's boss at GMA, demanding that food companies lower their prices in response to falling commodities.  Grassley took issue with some of Faber's comments, especially his public admission that anti-ethanol campaign was launched by GMA to "protect the bottom line ... http://blog.foodpricetruth.org/?p=162 Today, Sen. Grassley fired off an letter to GMA head C. Manly Molpus asking if food companies will lower their prices in response to falling commodities.  To see the letter, click here. http://blog.foodpricetruth.org/?p=159 Click here to read this Consumerist.com post about food prices. http://blog.foodpricetruth.org/?p=157 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. http://blog.foodpricetruth.org/?p=156 More and more, experts on the subject are viewing algae as a likely source for jet fuel in the future. http://blog.foodpricetruth.org/?p=155 DuPont is moving right along. http://blog.foodpricetruth.org/?p=154 Here is a new story about Unilever opposing biofuels. We've said it time and again, oil prices are what is driving commodity costs -- not biofuels.  In fact, biofuels keep gasoline prices down. http://blog.foodpricetruth.org/?p=153 Nestle Chairman Peter Brabeck-Letmathe says that rising oil prices force farmers to grow more corn for biofuels, which raises commodity prices. But he won't admit that rising oil prices are responsible for making nearly every other aspect of producing food products more expensive.  The Chairman said: ``Most important, of course, is the oil price, ... http://blog.foodpricetruth.org/?p=152 Here is an compelling story out of Washington State, where one concerned citizen is taking steps to see if she can take an environmental plight on Washington lakes, known as the plant milfoil, and make that pest into biofuels.  Good luck Alanna Mitchell. http://blog.foodpricetruth.org/?p=151 Farmweek interviewsJohn Mizroch, the Department of Energy's Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.  Key quote: “The current ethanol industry has grown remarkably fast, and has done well in offering ethanol as (a gasoline) oxygenate, as an alternative to fuel itself,” Mizroch told FarmWeek. “I don’t personally believe it ... http://blog.foodpricetruth.org/?p=150