The article I read is one that brought great interest to my attention. Australia is now able to use its Sugar Crop as a biofuel making them a great global provider of ethanol. Though at first such discovery means that we are now able to use less of a scarce resource towards fuel, UN activists are asking for a five year moratorium against such technological advancements.
UN Famine activists are saying that the conversion of a food crop to fuel is a crime against humanity. One of their biggest arguments is simple... "a child under 10 dies from hunger or disease related to malnutrition every five seconds." Using such crop towards fuel will drastically increase the prices of food world wide. With over 854 million hungry people in the world, the last thing we need is increased food prices.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/biofuel-crops-a-crime-against-humanity/2007/10/28/1193555530464.html
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