But if corn is going to replace gasoline as a fuel source, then something needs to replace corn as a fuel source for our bodies. Food price changes are not as drastic, but they are going up. In 2005, Kraft Foods began a current trend by announcing it was raising prices on several products an average of 3.9 percent because increasing energy costs were making it harder for food suppliers to get goods to market. Because gas prices, which are controlled by foreign governments, have...

Even as the outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed in Manipur, the civic authorities in Delhi are yet to initiate steps to check manual cutting and dressing of chickens at local meat shops. According to veterinary doctors, direct contact with an infected animal is the main reason behind the spread of the disease among human beings as against the common perception that bird flu spreads through consuming chicken. Khurana said that though the civic authorities in Delhi make all possible...

Big farms produce a lot of untreated sewage -- large dairy farms generate as much waste as the city of Lansing -- but they also keep food prices lower. Some Democrats and environmentalists want a moratorium on new big livestock farms -- those with sometimes thousands of animals that feed and live in barns. That's the question being raised across the state as Michigan legislators debate how to regulate big livestock farms -- from cows to poultry to pigs -- that generate tons of waste that...

Sadia, one of Brazil's major meat processing companies, is currently building a megacomplex for pork processing, poultry slaughtering and feed production in the state of Mato Grosso. The Pakistan poultry sector has asked the government to provide incentives to small farmers for the import of environmentally controlled housing for broilers and layers, which cover about 75% of the sector. Six people have been detained after trying to smuggle chickens and ducks out of a remote region in...

IMPHAL: Ibemcha Singh and his wife Banalata are distraught after authorities culled 1,500 of their chicken as part of a massive drive following the outbreak of bird flu in Manipur. Singh and his family of four have been into poultry farming for more than a decade now and earned about Rs 20,000 a month on an average. I know the chicken are being culled because of the virus, but this is like a curse for people like us who have been surviving on poultry for the better part of our lives, said...