Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Biofuels Driving Up Food Prices

Here’s more confirmation of the fact.

Soaring food prices have triggered violence in some developing countries, and biofuels are bearing at least part of the blame.

“The drive for more biofuels means more investment is going into those crops, meaning less land and less investment going in for food crops, causing a massive conflict and resulting in rising prices, which is having a huge negative impact, especially on developing countries,” said Clare Oxborrow, food campaigner for Friends of the Earth.  See why tortilla makers are blaming biofuel for increasing food prices »

Critics also say that in Africa, Asia and South America, people are being driven from their land and forests are being cleared to make room for the booming biofuel industry.

(2) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1708 hrs
Culture + Politics + Politics - General + Technology

  1. Meanwhile trillions of barrels of oil remain untapped in North America because we might temporarily pollute something retrieving it. 

    See PBS’s Independent Lens program King Corn to learn more about this amazing biofuel.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on April 22, 2008 at 2113 hrs


  2. It’s so not true… take Brazil’s example, the sugar cane, from which ethanol is taken, occupies land that has been traditionally of sugar cane, and that is not suitable for most of other plantations. The sugar cane properties are traditionally the same, and by making sugar cane plantation more profitable only means that more money is available for agriculture in general, especially food; because sugar cane plantation is sort of restricted to certain kinds of land. This is it. Biofuel is the solution not the problem. But since is cheap, made by the poor and Brazil is the leading country in producing it, jus doesn’t meet US -EU interests…

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on April 23, 2008 at 1052 hrs


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