Quarter of US grain ends up at the biofuel pump

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Think-tank calculates that 107 million tonnes of US grain used to make biofuels last year could have fed 330 million people

A quarter of all the grain crops produced in the US last year ended up being used to make biofuel, according to a new study that will reignite the debate surrounding the wisdom of using food crops to fuel...

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