Dear Editor,
Today the world is witnessing an unprecedented decline in the production of food to feed a starving human population; instead food is being produced to feed machines. The general consensus is that expensive oil is the culprit behind the shift in focus from production of food for humans to machines, such as the rush towards biofuel, which has taken away food from the hungry.
Producing foods that should be used to feed a starving world, instead of feeding them to machines is not just unethical but immoral. Biofuel diversion is threatening world food production, driving up food prices and is threatening the lives of billions of people. Thousands of people die “avoidably” each day from food deprivation.