Farmers raise urgent concerns over controversial fuel driving up food prices: 'Would fail to advance [what's] imperative'

Farmers raise urgent concerns over controversial fuel driving up food prices: 'Would fail to advance [what's] imperative'

Biofuels are generally touted as a cleaner alternative to pollution-heavy coal, oil, and gas.  However, some food industry leaders are concerned that crop-based biofuels aren't truly making our planet greener and could contribute to increased poverty and hunger.  What's happening? As Counter Currents reported, biofuel production requires cultivating crops on large amounts of land. Crop-based biofuels are often made from soy, maize, and palm oil.…

Support for Staffordshire farmers as council agrees to raise concerns > A Little Bit of Stone

Stafford Borough Council’s leader has agreed to raise rural communities’ concerns about agricultural inheritance tax changes with the area’s MPs – but an original motion put forward by a farmer and councillor was amended to be “a little less political”.