Today in Biofuels Opinion: “The rest of the world is finally coming to realize…Ethanol does not deserve the blame for increased food prices.”

Jeff Broin, CEO of POET: “In the past three months, as the ethanol industry has expanded, corn prices have been cut in half. But while corn prices continue to decline, food prices keep heading in the other direction. The rest of the world is finally coming to realize…Ethanol does not deserve the blame for increased food prices.”

Tom Philpott, writing in Gristmill: “Shiva made what I found to be a novel and powerful point about livestock’s contribution to greenhouse gases, recently documented by the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization: If you’re going to take animals off of pastures, deprive them of their native foods (i.e., grass for cows, bugs for chickens, whatever the landscape offers for pigs), and feed them a diet heavy on beans (i.e., soy), they’re going to get gas — literally, greenhouse gas (methane).”

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