Yes folks. Big Science expects us to take their word with respect to the effects of man-made emissions on global warming. Yet these same big brains couldn't foretell the effect that their advocacy of biofeuls would have on the world food market. For years, they advocated biofeuls as means of replacing fossil feuls. And now, the predictable has happened. Food prices are soaring. Due in large part to the increase in biofeuls.
Developed nations should stop paying agricultural subsidies to encourage biofuel production because the payments are making staple foods more expensive, the Asian Development Bank said Monday.Well this all one big "duh". It didn't take someone in a lab coat to see this happening. People are starving. And these freaks are to blame.
Biofuels should also be re-examined by governments around the world as it is increasingly unclear how environmentally friendly they are, ADB Managing Director General Rajat Nag said in an interview with The Associated Press. The production of biofuel leads to forests being destroyed and reduced land area for growing crops for food, he said.
"We feel that the developed countries should seriously rethink the whole issue of biofuel, particularly the biofuel subsidies," Nag said. "Giving subsidies for biofuels ... basically acts as an implicit tax on staple foods."
Paying farmers to grow oilseed and other crops to produce biofuels means they grow fewer food crops, resulting in higher prices for such staples as palm oil and corn.
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