Rod Speed wrote
Kurt Ullman wrote
Rod Speed wrote
HeyBub wrote
aspasia wrote

Or rather corn ethanol demand was craftily engineered by
influential agribusinessmen in certain "heartland" states,
shoveling out their contributions to our beloved Congress-whores.
They did not care what ripple effects this would create in the
Third World, where people are now starving. Effects even felt in
our neighbor to the South, where the price of corn went through
the ceiling, affecting tortillas -- a standard food, like wheat
bread in the States.

There has never been a famine in a democracy.

Wrong.

Name one, if you would be so kind.

Depends on what you call a democracy. They had some in ancient times in Greece etc.

There were some in India after independance too.

And the Irish Potato Famine etc too.

And Japan after it lost WW2 and was returned to a democracy by the Allies too.

I can't think of any.

Your problem.