Latest comments posted about Food or fuel? The policy choice becomes agonising on ChinaDialogue en-gb http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1985-Food-or-fuel-The-policy-choice-becomes-agonising http://staging.chinadialogue.net/images/cdlogo.gif http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1985-Food-or-fuel-The-policy-choice-becomes-agonising There are a lot of problems with Brazil's agricultural economy, particularly around agrobuisiness, land rights, and, yes, biofuels. I am not sure that sugarcane based biofuel from Brazil is necessarily more ecologically sound than any others, particularly from a human rights perspective. Although I do agree with the principle that protectionism (in rich countries at least) is not the answer. Sat, 10 May 2008 15:22:14 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1985#comment-7357 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1985#comment-7357 food or fuel? It is not neccessary an either-or question, we may be able to have both. There is a constant increase of industrial cost in the food. Take the milktea shops around my school for example, last summer there was only one shop. Now there are four. The price of a cup of milktea includes all the costs invested in the shop which are not cheap. However the demand for milktea is increasing and the sales are big. In this sense, it is ourselves who are increasing the industrial cost in commercial goods. Let's do a quick caculation, how much energy does it consume to make a cup of milktea? If we could change our diet habit, shall we save considerable energy? More similar examples can be easily found. We should not simply blame others. Sometimes, we should think about what we can improve ourselves to solve the problem. Thu, 08 May 2008 21:49:18 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1985#comment-7353 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1985#comment-7353