Many new reports are coming out showing how in a race for biofuels, the industralized world maybe ruining the food-cycle.
If too much corn, soy bean, and other products are diverted away from food to the biofuel without plans to change or alter other crops accordingly, people will begin to starve - not only in "3rd world" areas but in the 1st and 2nd as well...
The biggest issue at hand is the US pressure to stay with the Corn-method. Growing corn takes up way too much space, and you get very little fuel out of the corn to make up for the volume of space needed to grow the crops. Soybeans and Sugar Cane are by far the best methods based on the amount of biofuel which can be created from volume of crop. The only places still researching (whole-heartedly) these two crops are: Brazil, China, and New Zealand.
The rest of the world is pushing for corn and more corn and more corn. Not good...
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