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  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Biofuels Boom Spurring Deforestation
  • Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:16:17 -0500 (CDT)

And then there's this:

Source: http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2007/Update65.htm

MASSIVE DIVERSION OF U.S. GRAIN TO FUEL CARS IS RAISING WORLD FOOD PRICES

Lester R. Brown

If you think you are spending more each week at the supermarket, you may be
right. The escalating share of the U.S. grain harvest going to ethanol
distilleries is driving up food prices worldwide.

Corn prices have doubled over the last year, wheat futures are trading at
their highest level in 10 years, and rice prices are rising too. In addition,
soybean futures have risen by half. A Bloomberg analysis notes that the
soaring use of corn as the feedstock for fuel ethanol “is creating unintended
consequences throughout the global food chain.”


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA

From: TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net>
Date: 2007/03/23 Fri PM 06:33:15 CDT
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [Livingontheland] Biofuels Boom Spurring Deforestation


Grow food, not biofuels

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines07/0322-01.htm
Published on Thursday, March 22, 2007 by Inter Press Service
Biofuels Boom Spurring Deforestation
by Stephen Leahy
Nearly 40,000 hectares of forest vanish every day, driven by the world's
growing hunger for timber, pulp and paper, and ironically, new biofuels and
carbon credits designed to protect the environment.





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