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Will babies go hungry for the sake of my car?

by Judith Lewis
January 16, 2006 2:01 PM

This story from today's New York Times is about fuel and food competing over corn; it's mostly about ethanol, but biodiesel enthusiasts should read it, too.

Is the increasing demand for plant-based fuel threatening our food supply? Will the rush to grow crops for fuel usher in a new era of deforestation and destructive farming?

We need to answer these questions.

I don't think they're impossible, but they have to be addressed.

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