Western Hunger for Biofuels Causing Starvation in the Poor World
The Guardian UK's George Monbiot says, "Even the International Monetary Fund, always ready to immolate the poor on the altar of business, now warns that using food to produce biofuels "might further strain already tight supplies of arable land and water all over the world, thereby pushing food prices up even further." This week, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization will announce the lowest global food reserves in 25 years, threatening what it calls "a very serious crisis." Even when the price of food was low, 850 million people went hungry because they could not afford to buy it. With every increment in the price of flour or grain, several million more are pushed below the breadline."
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/110607EC.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biofuels
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=starvation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monbiot
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/110607EC.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biofuels
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=starvation
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Monbiot
rudkla - 7. Nov, 10:55
