Goodby grass; hello corn…

A college study indicates the high price of corn and soybeans, thanks to the bio-fuel demand, is robbing us of grass and wetlands at an alarming rate.  The research was by a team from South Dakota State University and it says we’re losing grasslands at the rate of five per cent a year.

That is a major ecological threat and, according to the scientists, it would take us decades to recover from the setback to natural carbon sequestration, even if we wanted to.

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/02/13/1215404110.short?rss=1

This is all the handiwork of Big Government and Big Ag, of course.  As a blogger often puts it:  “the country is in the very best of hands”.