Will biofuel leave the poor hungry

It is one of the most hotly debated environmental topics of the year - whether the drive to produce alternative so-called **green fuels** will take food from the mouths of the hungry. For environmental groups like Friends of the Earth, it's a no brainer. "If you start to fuel cars with crops," says Ed Matthew, "you are instantly putting the world's one billion starving people in competition with the world's one billion motorists. It's as simple as that." Green groups and aid agencies cite **biofuels** as forming part of the "perfect storm" of poor harvests, rising oil prices and a surge in demand for food from China and India that are all pushing up the price of everything from pasta to a loaf of bread. In fact, the first flashpoint in the food versus fuel conflict has already happened. "Source":[ http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx?infoId=15817]

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