Growing use of such crops wheat and corn to make biofuels is putting world food supplies in peril, the head of Nestle, the world’s biggest food and beverage company has warned.
“If as predicted we look to use biofuels to satisfy 20 percent of the growing demand for oil products, there will be nothing left to eat,” Chairman and chief executive Peter Brabeck-Letmathe said.
“To grant enormous subsidies for biofuel production is morally unacceptable and irresponsible,” he told the Swiss newspaper NZZ am Sonntag.
While the competition is driving up the price of maize, soya and wheat, land for cultivation is becoming rare and water sources are also under threat, Brabeck said.
April 4, 2008 at 11:10 pm |
I so agree, I wish the current politicians would stop touting ethanol and wise up!
kim’s last blog post..Does your glass of clean drinking water taste good?
April 12, 2008 at 8:43 pm |
Even better, we need to reduce the overpopulation to actually solve the root cause to these problems. More people = more consumption = more exloitation. Simple math people!
John Feeney explained this brilliantly in his latest interview: http://www.corrupt.org/act/interviews/john_feeney
June 29, 2008 at 12:29 am |
John, you shouldn’t worry so much about the over population growth. With all of the chemicals companies like Nestle and Pepsico put in our food and beverages half of the population are becoming infertile.