“Who will feed China?” author says US ethanol halt will stop world food crisis

In China, Lester Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute, said that halting ethanol production would stop the global food crisis. Brown said that ethanol is increasing global grain demand by 20 million tons per year, ten times the increase in demand from China. “Growth in demand for ethanol in the United States exceeds growth for all purposes from the rest of the world,” Brown commented.

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