Monday, December 19, 2011

The implications for food supply in the Age of BioTechnology

Folks, there is concern that we might be entering an age of decreased world food supplies, as the new Age of BioTechnology ramps up.
This is not so, and here is why:
The future of corn production is to fill all markets. We now do fill all world corn based food, feed, pharmaceuticals, nutriceuticals, vitamins, cosmetics, home chemicals, industrial chemicals, plastics, ethanol, bio diesel, bio crude oil, bio gasoline, bio kerosene and bio jet fuel markets out there. We can sell much more as soon as we can ramp up production, and in the case of motor fuels, build more distribution and the point of sale station pumps.
We still have 30 million acres of set aside land that the federal government pays farmers not to farm. We had 40 million acres under no farm subsidy, but with increased corn markets, that has come down a bit, to 30 million acres. The purpose of the farm subsidy its to limit over production, which would crash the grain markets and bankrupt farmers around the world. This 30 million acres can be returned to production, saving billions in subsidy costs. We have the markets. We need the processing plants, and in some cases like fuel, the transportation and selling infrastructure, and we are developing and building them now.
Industry experts tell me we will be capable of doubling our corn production in the next few years. The bottleneck right now is corn processing and bulk product transportation infrastructure, and we are working on that.
As we process corn for best uses, we produce many food and animal feed products. These are all finding markets, with a small surplus of unsold corn left over each year as carryover to new harvest.
The other factor is green algae. This is not just a source of ethanol. Algae is as complex as corn and is beginning to yield many new products. New product development R and D is going on at breakneck speed around the world, as companies and nations rush to dominate this huge new indsutry.
Green algae has been used as human food and animal feed for thousands of years. The big food opportunity today is with the green algae flour left after removing the oil and water. This is high protein and will be bleached white and it will be cheap and abundant by the car load and ship load.
It will be used in breads and cakes and thousands of processed foods. In fact, it will compete directly with corn, wheat, rice and soybeans.
This high protein algae additive will soon feed billions of starving people around the world.

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