GM Biofuels: Another Planned Disaster

Governments around the world have proposed biofuels, liquid fuels derived from plants, fungi or algae, as a solution to today’s energy and environmental crises. But this alternative is as bad as, or worse, than fossil fuels.

Reasons to reject biofuels include:

-Loss of farmland for fuel land, increasing food prices and world hunger;

-Deforestation and conversion of prairie to cropland, causing a net increase in greenhouse gases;

-Increased reliance on eco-destructive pesticides; and

-Proliferation of dangerous genetically modified crops. more...