This article is all about the rise of international corn prices spurred by demand for the grain-based fuel ethanol and how that is affecting some of the peoples lives in Mexico. Aurora Rosales has a little tortilla shop east of Mexico city, because of the prices of corn rising due to the this is causing her shop to suffer and her customers to complain for the prices rising. Lower income Mexicans get more then 40% of their protein from tortilla's and its making it harder for them to get the protein they need. So whats more important cheaper gas or feeding the hungry?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/26/AR2007012601896_pf.html
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