How Big Agriculture Mislead the Public About the Benefits of Biofuels
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Something felt off. Tim Searchinger lacked the proper credentials to say exactly what was off that day in the spring of 2003. He was a lawyer, not a scientist or economist. He was reading a complex…
  • PattyMcB@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    21 days ago

    No WAI!!!

    CORN LOBBYISTS ARE LYING?!?!

    Holy fuck… it’s been too obvious, for too long

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzEnglish
    7·
    21 days ago

    Before people start talking about sugar cane ethanol, or how considerably better it is for the environment than maize ethanol, let me mention a single word:

    DESERTIFICATION.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    20 days ago

    Biofuels are the least efficient conversion of solar energy imaginable, and only exist to subsidize farmers and the industry around them as a way to bypass international trade agreements that ban such subsidies.

    I say this as a farmer. I benefit from this system on the price of oilseed, and I think it’s a bullshit way to do things.