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"en.20130909.22.1-116-000"2
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"Mr President, in 2007 the UN rapporteur for the right to food described the diversion of arable land to the production of biofuels as a crime against humanity. He was right then, and it is still true today. There is no question that biofuel production bears an important responsibility for the massive price hikes which have thrown millions into hunger and poverty.
NGOs have explained that the amount of land required to fill a family car once with biofuel would provide enough food for a child for 200 days. Yet more than EUR 6 billion is spent every year to subsidise this destructive business.
In the EU, big money means big lobbying, and so we have former Fianna Fáil Minister and current lobbyist Dick Roche writing to MEPs calling for these proposals to be watered down. We also have his former party colleague, Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, who has just approved EUR 1 billion in support for bio-based industries. The winners are agri-business and the losers are those thrown off their land and those affected by deforestation and hunger.
I will be voting in favour of the amendment which I tabled with other MEPs of the Left calling for the deletion of the 10% target that has acted as an enormous stimulus for first generation biofuels."@en1
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