Biofuels is threatening global food supplies, the head of the world's biggest food group says

by Lara Pullin
When 'Cuba' reported this a few years back they were ridiculed.but now leading world authority Nestle (no doubt concerned about the effect dead people have on super profits) says:

INCREASED use of crops such as wheat and corn to make biofuels is threatening global food supplies, the head of the world's biggest food group says.

"If, as predicted, we look to use biofuels to satisfy 20% of the growing demand for oil products, there will be nothing left to eat," Nestle chairman and chief executive Peter Brabeck-Letmathe said.

"To grant enormous subsidies for biofuel production is morally unacceptable," he told a Swiss newspaper.

While the competition is driving up maize, soya and wheat prices, land for cultivation is becoming rare, he said

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