Rush for biofuels threatens starvation on a global scale

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Rush for biofuels threatens starvation on a global scale

Lewis Smith and Francis Elliott
Times Online
March 7, 2008

The rush towards biofuels is theatening world food production and the lives of billions of people, the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser said yesterday.
Professor John Beddington put himself at odds with ministers who have committed Britain to large increases in the use of biofuels over the coming decades. In his first important public speech since he was appointed, he described the potential impacts of food shortages as the “elephant in the room” and a problem which rivalled that of climate change.
“It’s very hard to imagine how we can see the world growing enough crops to produce renewable energy and at the same time meet the enormous demand for food,” he told a conference on sustainability in London yesterday.
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Faolan Devyn Aodfin on March 9th, 2008
How about solar, wind, geothermal, and tidal? May not be able to power the whole world but it has the potential that combined could produce way more than bio-fuel can. Plus it’s pretty much free energy once you get the infrastructure up because it costs little to harvest it and little to maintain the equipment.
Doctor McAuley on March 9th, 2008
This is nothing to do with alternate energy sources and everything to do with population control. Do not confuse control with reduction, as hunger is a means of control whereas starvation is a means of reduction.
America has hit several ’supermassive’ oil deposits in the past thirty years, most of which are considered classified and of strategic importance. Two such deposits, leaked to the press by a Chaplain are located in Alaska,

As with food, control of energy is Vital to the interests of the ruling elite. That is why we invaded Iraq, because of oil, but not to use it… to make sure no one else could use it. Once this modern nobility have control over the majority of the earth’s oil supplies, they will be able to regulate the global populations with devastating efficiency.
This of course also applies to the control of the world’s food production.The elite have long since abandoned their attempts to control this precious resource via traditional means. This normally consists of purchasing farmer’s land, of using political leverage (ie.eminent domain or bribery).Now the elite have taken to genetically modifying food that cannot be fertilized, will not produce pollen or see and is predatory in nature, supplanting native plant species and killing the bees that allow plant life to reproduce.The economic ramifications of such genetically modified plants are vast and frightening as the nature of such crops and their higher yields forces farmers to use GM seed, thus propagating their spread and our dependence on such plants. But what if one day, Monsanto decides not to sell you the seeds, or agrees to do so at an unaffordable cost…. what will you do then?

The Arctic seed vault is a long way off, and where will you get the gas to go there?

indijo on March 10th, 2008
If they must have biofuels as an alternative energy resource, hemp would make a much better source than popular food staples. But the idiots behind this don’t want to waste time convincing the dumbed-down public and Congress that hemp is not the dangerous plant that the fascist Anslinger (reefer madness) and his co-conspirators in the petroleum industry made it out to be.

Floyd Green on March 10th, 2008
Industrial hemp provides seven times more biomass an acre then corn and it is a great crop for soil reclamation; removing toxic waste while nourishing farmland with nitrogen.. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better” -Albert Einstein