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The Italians are having tomato fights to protest wasting of food!


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Bill Clinton speaks out against ethanol! Is the conspiracy of
silence ending?

"Mr Clinton said: "What's really hurting the food markets is America
moving into ethanol. People there are moving into corn and you have
pasta riots in Italy related to what some people are doing in farming
in America."

"The World Bank said this week that the price of staple foods has
risen by 80 per cent in the past three years."

"Many at the meeting blamed the price hikes on US and European Union
moves to use biofuels such as ethanol to curb greenhouse gas
emissions."

SEE FULL STORY BELOW

Soaring price of food 'leads to riots'

By James Kirkup, Political Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:45am BST 07/04/2008

Rising food prices threaten economic stability and could trigger
riots, Gordon Brown has been warned.
The World Bank said this week that the price of staple foods has risen
by 80 per cent in the past three years. For consumers in wealthy
nations such as Britain soaring prices are squeezing household
finances and keeping inflation up. But for developing nations they can
lead to malnutrition and social disruption.
Food prices are being driven up by shortages of supply - often caused
by bad weather - and by rising demand.

Mr Brown chaired the Progressive Governance Summit in Watford at the
weekend and heard a string of warnings about the rising price of food.

António Guterres, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, told the
summit the cost of food is leading to riots. He said: "The biggest
problem today is rising food prices in democratic countries
everywhere. This can trigger social unrest."

The summit drew together some of the world's most important Left-of-
centre politicians, including former US president Bill Clinton.

Many at the meeting blamed the price hikes on US and European Union
moves to use biofuels such as ethanol to curb greenhouse gas
emissions. Ethanol, an alternative to petrol, is made using corn and
its increasing use has pushed up maize prices.

The EU wants biofuels to make up more than five per cent of transport
fuel used by 2010, and the US may triple the amount of maize it uses
for ethanol over the next decade.

But Mr Clinton said: "What's really hurting the food markets is
America moving into ethanol. People there are moving into corn and you
have pasta riots in Italy related to what some people are doing in
farming in America."
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Christopher Calder
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biofuel facts