Nestle Chairman: Biofuels are "ethically indefensible"

Nestle Chairman: Biofuels are "ethically indefensible"
Wall Street Journal June 13, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121336637192571721.html

Excerpts include:
The biofuel craze, egged on by global warming activists, has helped fuel a huge agricultural crisis.

If there's one certainty, it is this: The production of biofuels has stimulated a massive, and destructive, reorientation of the world's agriculture markets. The U.S. Department of Energy calculates that every 10,000 liters of water produces as little as five liters of ethanol, or one to two liters of biodiesel. Biofuels are economical nonsense, ecologically useless and ethically indefensible.

The world's agriculture and water crisis is only going to get worse. As China and India grow, their populations are demanding more and wider varieties of food stuffs, and competition for arable land is intensifying. Food prices are rising, in large part because agriculture suppliers can barely keep up with today's demand

So what is the world doing? Reorienting land away from food production and toward plants cultivated for energy needs. This could be the single most destructive set of policy mistakes made in a generation. From time immemorial, mankind has struggled to produce enough food.

So why introduce a new competitor for this scarce resource? The blame falls squarely on global warming advocates.