Every day almost a billion people go to bed hungry, many of them children. The causes include climate change, demand from a growing population, and diverting food crops to power cars. Freak weather this summer destroyed 28% of the US corn crop, roughly the same as the amount the US will use as fuel this year. We could replace the lost harvest with a stroke of a pen by ending the crazy biofuel policies that favour cars over kids.
Biofuels are supposed to replace regular oil, but are in fact a climate change con. When land clearance and fertiliser use are taken into account, biofuels produce more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels do. Newer types of biofuels made from crop wastes or wood also don’t solve these problems as they would still require more land to be brought into cultivation.
The world’s starving billion won’t be represented in Brussels, but we can take their demand straight to decision makers. Together we can stiffen President Barroso’s resolve to do the right thing and put food back where it belongs – in the bellies of starving children.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_feed_kids...PrgGcb&v=18743
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