Biofuel: Burning away our food supply
National Center for Policy Analysis
by staff
05/07/08
What started out as a great idea — replacing our dependence on oil with a renewable clean-burning resource, biofuel — has quickly sprouted unintended consequences. Americans are diverting perfectly good growing land to produce crops used exclusively for biofuel production. We have essentially decided to burn our food supply in attempts to replace our oil fix, which seems about as logical as burning money for heat, says Krystal Ford, a research intern at the American Council on Science and Health...
http://tinyurl.com/62mxlt
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biofuels
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+supply
by staff
05/07/08
What started out as a great idea — replacing our dependence on oil with a renewable clean-burning resource, biofuel — has quickly sprouted unintended consequences. Americans are diverting perfectly good growing land to produce crops used exclusively for biofuel production. We have essentially decided to burn our food supply in attempts to replace our oil fix, which seems about as logical as burning money for heat, says Krystal Ford, a research intern at the American Council on Science and Health...
http://tinyurl.com/62mxlt
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biofuels
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+supply
rudkla - 8. Mai, 12:30
