G8 leaders must tackle the biofuels threat

THE growth of biofuels must be put at the top of the G8 summit agenda in Japan next week.

Right now 100 million people around the world are threatened by the soaring cost of food.

Last month’s emergency food summit in Rome identified biofuels as a major factor in the global food shortage. That fuel should be deemed more important than food for the hungry seems obscene.