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    Brazil’s Counterattack On Biofuels

    By Mr Ethanol | April 30, 2008

    TIME:

    As soaring commodity prices spark food riots around the globe, prompting a U.N. official to dub the production of biofuels at the expense of food cultivation “a crime against humanity,” the debate over the efficiency and morality of using plants as an energy source is heating up. And Brazil, the world’s largest producer of biofuels and leader in cheap and efficient production of ethanol, is fighting back against what it calls “disinformation and dishonesty.”
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    A number of recent studies have suggested that ethanol production does more harm than good to the environment, and is at least partly responsible for the sharp jump in global food prices. And U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Jean Ziegler caused a stir when he told a radio interviewer, “Burning food today, so as to serve the mobility of the rich countries, is a crime against humanity,” and called for a five-year moratorium on further production. Skepticism of the environmental cost-benefit advantages of biofuels has been echoed in a number of articles and op-eds in major Western media outlets, including TIME.

    But Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva complains that the criticism is driven by an ulterior motive. He suggests it forms part of a concerted effort by the industrialized world to prevent Brazil, one of the world’s most important agricultural powers, from taking its place at the top table. The problem, he argues, lies with the “same old policies of the rich countries,” such as subsidies and tariffs. Full article.

    Photo: Jamil Bittar / Reuters.

    Topics: Biofuel, Brazil, News |


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