Biofuel Condemns the Poor to Starvation Says UN Rapporteur

“The development of biofuels poses a great danger for the right to food,” said the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Jean Ziegler at a press conference on the sidelines of the UN Council on Human Rights.

Ziegler accused the United States, the European Union and Japan of encouraging alcohol production to reduce their dependence on imported oil, reported Granma newspaper.
The UN official said that 854 million people in the world suffer from hunger, the overriding cause of the dangerous attempts to emigrate to Europe and the United States. He noted that many more will be hungry with the use of basic food crops to produce ethanol.

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