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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/s...squeeze-of-biofuel-demand.html?ref=world&_r=0
We are taking food out of the mouths of the poor and burning it in our cars. This is unbelievable, unconscionable, unthinkable, and shameful.
Recent laws in the United States and Europe that mandate the increasing use of biofuel in cars have had far-flung ripple effects, economists say, as land once devoted to growing food for humans is now sometimes more profitably used for churning out vehicle fuel.
In a globalized world, the expansion of the biofuels industry has contributed to spikes in food prices and a shortage of land for food-based agriculture in poor corners of Asia, Africa and Latin America because the raw material is grown wherever it is cheapest.
We are taking food out of the mouths of the poor and burning it in our cars. This is unbelievable, unconscionable, unthinkable, and shameful.