In As Biofuel Demand Grows, So Do Guatemala's Hunger Pangs", the New York Times reports on how the the climate change activists have pushed biofuels so that the cost of such commodities as corn have risen to the point that poor children are starving in such counties as Guatemala.
Recent laws in the United States and Europe that mandate the increasing use of biofuel in cars have had far-flung ripple effects, economists say, as land once devoted to growing food for humans is now sometimes more profitably used for churning out vehicle fuel.
In a globalized world, the expansion of the biofuels industry has contributed to spikes in food prices and a shortage of land for food-based agriculture in poor corners of Asia, Africa and Latin America because the raw material is grown wherever it is cheapest.
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