Castro sees transformation of food into energy as monstrous act

Cuban local daily Granma published Thursday a new article of President Fidel Castro, in which he said "the transformation of food into energy is a monstrous act," as a reflection of Argentine Atlio Boron's article.

In the text titled "the debate intensifies," Castro said, "food is transformed into energy to continue the irrationality of a civilization, that in order to safeguard the wealth and privileges of a few people, carry out a brutal attack against environment."

Castro said that with those actions, capitalism gets ready to practise a massive euthanasia to the poor, and especially to the southern poor, because southern region of the planet holds the largest biomass reserves needed to produce biofuels.

The Cuban President said that no matter how official discourses say it is not an option between food and fuels, reality proves " that this is precisely the alternative: either land is destined to produce food or to produce biofuels."

"Mathematics do not lie: neither the United States nor the European Union have land available to sustain a simultaneous food production and agro-energy increase," Castro said.

Source: Xinhua