Gilles Tran wrote:

> Actually, one of the reasons why the price of cheese went up is due to 
> biofuels. A few countries (including the US) have been converting food 
> maize and soybeans crops to biofuel maize for a few years now, due to 
> attractive fuel prices: the US now uses more of its maize crop for 
> biofuel than it sells abroad. Last year, with a few other factors, this 
> cascaded into a world shortage of food/feed grains. The price of cereals 
> doubled between May and September 2007, and drove up the price of feeds, 
> and then of milk and cheese.

...all of which leaves me wondering: How come Gilles knows so much about 
farming? ;-)

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