Protest Over Tesco's Biofuels Claim

bristol | corporations | feature Tuesday June 03, 2008 09:45 by imcvol

"The question is do we want do feed our cars or feed ourselves?"

"The question is do we want do feed our cars or feed ourselves?"

As part of worldwide Food and Climate Change day, bristol rising tide writes; Biofuels, far from [being a] panacea [for] petrol prices and climate change, have added to the global food price hike by taking land previously occupied by food crops. A study by the University of Minnesota found that growing biofuel on converted rainforests, peat lands, savannas or grasslands created up to 420 times more carbon dioxide than it saved. Wheat Prices have doubled in the UK over the past year, and consumers and retailsers have so far managed to absorb this. But elsewhere in the world, people are going without wheat (and other staples) and bakers are going out of business. To iIlustrate this issue, a dozens bakers (rather than a bakers dozen!) will be following up Bristol Rising Tides demo in April of this year to illustrate the true cost of Agro-fuels. They will be at Tesco, Eastville between 4.30pm and 7pm. Ms Bread of Bristol Rising Tide said: "The question is do we want [to] feed our cars or feed ourselves?" Tesco has made false claims about the source of the fuel sold at its service stations, according to an investigation that found that the chain sold the most environmentally damaging types of biodiesel -Palm Oil - whilst claiming that it 's biofuel was sourced from relatively sustainable UK-planted rape seed oil. Full Article.

| Bakers to Stage Protest Outside Tesco | Tesco Agro Demo (from April 15) |Tesco green fuel ‘adds to climate change’ (timesonlone.co.uk) |Biofuels: Biodevastation, Hunger & False Carbon Credits (i-sis.org.uk) |

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