Farmers could get crop change

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``The thing about standing here is that it gives you a feeling there's still hope in the world," Rodgers, a wildlife research biologist with the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, said as he bent down recently to examine clumps of native bluestem grass, on land that had been wall-to-wall corn. ``We have a real feel for the wilderness again, of the true West."

But the restoration of the prairies under a national conservation program is now in jeopardy from another environmental push: the drive for alternative fuels, specifically ethanol, which is made from corn. It's a tradeoff that some in Kansas and elsewhere say will be environmentally detrimental.
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``The question with this is finding the right balance between keeping the environmental benefit" of the conservation program ``and meeting this new demand for alternative fuels," Representative Jerry Moran, a Republican representing a district in central Kansas, said recently.
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The Iowa Farm Bureau, which represents thousands of corn growers, voted in August to promote a plan to stop enrolling land in 10-year grassland contracts, and to limit the conservation initiative to areas in ``critical need" of protection.
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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/10/02/farmers_could_get_crop_change/

How do we defeat the meme of 'balance'? There is no question of balancing evironment vs benifity or profit or whatever you want to call it, without the environment there is nothing left to balance.

[phantom power]

1. The GOP uses "balance" the same way as they use "bipartisanship."

I'm sure it's hard to defeat, because a large group of people do not want to have their minds changed about it. The implications of admitting they were/are wrong are too heavy.

[skids]

2. How about...

"The Free Market will provide all the balance that is needed. So let the government do it's job and protect the environment. Prices will adjust to accomodate a sustainable approach."

(Not that I believe a word of "free market" BS.)