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Next year, the use of US corn for ethanol is forecast to rise to 114 million tonnes - nearly a third of the whole projected US crop. American cars now burn enough corn to cover all the import needs of the 82 nations classed by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) as "low-income food-deficit countries". There could scarcely be a better way to starve the poor.

Source, thanks [livejournal.com profile] missioncontrol. The article also compiles a list of food riots so far this year.

Date: 2008-04-26 02:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] frandroid.livejournal.com
Should you go to Nebraska again, could you bring back some of this holy-fuck amazing water? =)

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