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Every now and then world leaders meets and discuss about world problems, that’s why we pay them. They often come up with ideas to solve the crisis “du jour”. This year it’s the price of the food.

The cause of the food crisis is the continuous consumption of energy (in whatever form) by rich countries and the growth of emerging countries who eat more, more meat and transport more of that food. Since they are getting richer they can afford to pay more for the food while other on the planet are telling us they can’t follow. The world need more food then we have to TRANSPORT it. So some bright people come up with the idea of using FOOD to create fuel, which in return increase the price of the food by reducing the amount of available food for PEOPLE.

Some are saying the crisis will solve itself by augmenting the production of food (and biofuels as well). On the short term, yes, but on the long term if we think this way we will have to deforest more, use more land in order to raise cattle and burn more biofuel to transport the food. What kind of solution for what kind of problem are we coming up with ?

Really worlds leader are missing an opportunity to avoid a major crisis, maybe next year when there will be more of those food riots, the big guys on the block will adress the real problems : dependency on energy and the consumerist race of the rich and emerging nations.

The United Nations’ outspoken independent expert on the right to food, Jean Ziegler, told a conference in Bern that biofuels, as they are produced at present, constitute “a crime against a large part of humanity.”

That is the solution is not more GMO corn but less energy consumption!!!