Non drug hemp should be used for lots of things
banning it is insane.
Why are biofuels getting this sort of publicity. No one is upset about Brazil which practically runs on ethanol, or even the (once disasterous environmentally) Indonesian Oil Nut industry.
How can Africa afford to buy USA corn in the first place?
O, I know- because Aid is tied to US goods?
Quote:
Biofuels: A Lose-Lose Strategy.
By Stephen Leahy, IPS, January 27, 2008
DEVELOPMENT: Biofuels a Lose-Lose Strategy, Critics Say
U.S. biofuels production is driving up food prices around the world, giving billions of poor people a very good reason to hate U.S. policy, say environmentalists.
"The U.S. has led the fight to stem global hunger, now we are creating hunger," said Lester Brown, president of the Earth Policy Institute, an environmental think tank in Washington.
The booming U.S. ethanol industry is diverting enormous amounts food into fuel: 81 million tonnes of grain in 2007 and 114 million tonnes this year, equaling 28 percent of the entire U.S. grain harvest, Brown told IPS. Previous eras of high grain prices were mainly the result of bad weather, but these price hikes are the result of government policy.
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