Debunking the Food vs Fuel Myth
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Debunking the Food vs Fuel Myth
Posted 20 February 2015 in
In a recent article for Biofuels Digest, Brent Erickson of the Biotechnology Industry Organization debunks the “food vs fuel” myth presented in a new working paper issued by the World Resources Institute (WRI).
Through increased crop productivity and human ingenuity, America’s farmers are sustainably meeting the demands of food crops and bioenergy crops. For America’s rural economies, the renewable fuel industry is a vital source of jobs. This will continue to be the case for years to come as long as Big Oil and their allies aren’t successful in spreading misinformation about this homegrown fuel choice.
“It makes one wonder what the real agenda behind Searchinger’s tortured assumptions is. It seems to be to try and kill off renewable biofuels and facilitate fossil carbon pollution. It’s long past time that the world recognizes the fatal flaws in Searchinger’s arguments and stores this argument in the compost pile, where it belongs.”
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