The inevitable has happened. The carbon neutral myth has led a corrupt government to rob food from its people. It’s the military junta of Myanmar, the cyclone stricken country! This is a press release by the Moroccan News Portal:
 BANGKOK (AFP) - Myanmar is struggling to feed its people in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis — [...]

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Jean Ziegler, Switzerland, the United Nations’ independent expert on the right to food, was right to call for a five-year moratorium on biofuel production in October 2007.
Ziegler called their motives legitimate, but said that ”the effect of transforming hundreds and hundreds of thousands of tons of maize, of wheat, of beans, of palm oil, into [...]

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