Demand at food pantries increases
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) - Food pantries say demand is increasing because families are spending more on transportation and home heating.
Onalaska Holmen Emergency Food Basket director Linda Smith says people are hurting more than you think.''
The Onalaska/Holmen pantry served more than 220 people in the first two weeks of March. Smith says that's up from February.
The Hunger Task Force expects to give away at least as much food as last year - 400,000 pounds.
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Apr 15, 2008 at 6:34 a.m.
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Its not right to blame this on ethenol type fuel we can grow more corn but we can't grow oil! E-85 gas is supposed to be so much cheaper yet Hadji over on Milton Ave (and I believe thats his real name)across from the old Taco Bell charges the same as real gas, E-85 gets lower mileage to boot! Something is not right here and who is watching out for us on this one? Fuel, Food, Clothing, you name it everything is going up, its the slow but sure way the government is bankrupting our own country! Everything is going up except our pay and this leads to ALOT less that we have to spend, at some point we need to start taking care of ourselves and not worry about foriegn countries as much!!!!!! Why re-build Iraq when we have people here in our country homeless? To me this makes absolutely no sense at all, when is enough enough? We use to be A powerful country and everyone wanted to come here, now our dollar is worth almost half of the euro and foriegn countries laugh at us! Well I for one do not want to be the worlds joke anymore and its high time this country took back its pride, we need to say screw the rest and take care of the best!!!!!!
Apr 14, 2008 at 11:33 a.m.
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The UN strongly advises Biofuel regulation because it's driving up the cost of food, and riots are beginning in several countries. Haiti's government has already collapsed as a result of this. Also, we're paying higher food bills, and the 60 cent/gallon tax paid to oil producers on top of higher fuel costs. Next, we'll be paying more for world food aid, which is funded by debt purchased by nations we don't particularly care for because the government already spends more than it receives. The ethanol program doesn't fill me with a lot of patriotism.
Apr 14, 2008 at 11:27 a.m.
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I'm sure that the high price of corn due to so many ethanal mandates, which our illustrious Gov. is of course in favor of, have a contributing factor in the high cost of food as well.
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