An Appetizing, and Inedible, Option

How Certain Crops Could Serve as Biofuel, Without Driving Up Food Prices

By Suemedha Sood 05/06/2008

With the price of gas hitting new heights, President George W. Bush said last week that he wants to make even more corn into ethanol. But increased biofuel production in the United States and the European Union has been cited as responsible for the steep climb in food costs around the globe.

The recent dramatic price increase has led to food riots in Haiti, Mexico, Mauritania, Egypt and other locations. Leaders in developing countries have told the United Nations that using crops to make biofuels is starving the world's poor.