My second thought after hearing about Prince Charles remarks on US beef consumption–I won’t share the first, it’s not proper–was “where is the nearest cheeseburger?”  The cheeseburger is perhaps the most perfect culinary delight ever conceived.  It is also an excellent way to deliver bacon to the taste-buds, and positioned next to a Sam Adams Boston Lager, could well be the last decent meal I ever ask for once the regime starts rounding up people like me.  But now that another prominent elitist, enviro-hypocrite has condemned my fascination with it, and America’s dedication to this food genre, I feel inclined to  regress to my teenage days and rebel.

So pass the salt, mustard, and ketchup.

Charles, pronounced “Chahlz,” should be taken as seriously as anyone who spends most of their life being known by just one name.  That is to say, not at all.  And here we make no exception because his beef with beef is that it’s cultivation and husbandry uses too damn much water.

This is an entertaining observation coming from the prince of enviro-hippies, someone who undoubtedly has other concerns that have resulted in our trying to cram ethanol into motor-fuel to save the world from the same gas that escaped him while telling us we eat too much meat.  Lets ignore the problems of ethanol exhaust being worse, and get right to the point.  Corn uses insane amounts of water, heavily laden with massive amounts of fertilizers and pesticides, all of which end up “spoiling”–is that the proper term–streams and rivers, exacerbating the problem of algae plumes.

And beef isn’t getting billions in taxpayer prop-ups at every stage of production and delivery. Which means that Chaz would rather your burger look like this.

Cause for alarm?  Perhaps.  Corn based fuels are prompting shortages and food riots, with food inflation driving tens of millions below the poverty line.  We’ve got plenty of corn.  We just need to stop listening to enviro-morons whose policy prescriptions make the stated problem worse, while creating massive amounts of collateral damage.

If the Prince is really concerned about water, perhaps he’d be better off talking about how many corn tortilla’s we eat, or better yet ask why we have to use corn syrup as a sweetener even though its worse for us than sugar. (Hint: the government makes sugar more expensive.)

As for Charles?  He doesn’t even begin to understand that the anti-meat left has already endorsed the solution and made us pay for it.  Rising grain prices, created by food for fuel energy policy, subsidized by billions in taxpayer dollars, are making beef too expensive for the average table.  So he may get his wish after all.

 posted from: http://granitegrok.com/blog/2011/05/wheres_the_beef.html