Nestlé Boss: Biofuel Policy Causes Mass Starvation

Et audivi tamquam vocem in medio quattuor animalium dicentem: "Bilibris tritici denario, et tres bilibres hordei denario; et vinum et oleum ne laeseris". (Revelation 6:6)

Nestlé CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe says that the farming of biofuels dramatically exacerbates global hunger, according to NoTricksZone.

Brabeck-Letmathe says, "Through biofuels, we have returned hundreds of millions of people back into extreme poverty", according to Die Welt.

"More than one half of American corn and one fifth of the entire sugar cane harvest gets converted into biofuels while there is not enough food to feed humanity", he adds.

Farmers prefer to grow crops for fuels rather than food for feeding the planet, because it is simply more profitable.

Governments worldwide are massively subsidizing the agriculture of biofuels, because they fear global warming caused by CO2 emissions, and because they listen to environmental groups like Greenpeace.

But from an environmental point of view this is nonsense, and even more so at a time when the world is running out of food.

This policy has caused a sharp increase in the price of food, fossil fuels, and other commodities.

For millions of people living from less than 2 U.S. dollar a day, this policy means the difference between life and death.

Now hundreds of millions more people are starving needlessly.

Hopefully, this crazy food for fuel policy, which pushes hundreds of millions of people into hunger and into extreme poverty every year, will soon end.

"Arescentibus hominibus prae timore et exspectatione eorum, quae supervenient orbi, nam virtutes caelorum movebuntur", Luke 21:26.