Biofuels

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Biofuel comprises ethanol and other fuels produced bizarrely from crops or bacteria.

Here's a list of transnationals financially involved in agrofuels:

Agribusiness: ADM, Cargill, China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Import & Export Corporation, Noble Group, DuPont, Syngenta, ConAgra, Bunge, Itochu, Marubeni, Louis Dreyfus
- sugar British Sugar, Tate & Lyle, Tereos, Sucden, Cosan, AlcoGroup, EDF & Man, Bajaj Hindusthan, Royal Nedalco
- palm oil IOI, Peter Cremer, Wilmar
- forestry Weyerhauser, Tembec
Oil: BP, Eni, Shell, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Repsol, Chevron, Titan, Lukoil, Petrobrás, Total, PetroChina, Bharat Petroleum, PT Medco, Gulf Oil
Finance: Rabobank, Barclays, Société Générale, Morgan Stanley, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Goldman Sachs, Carlyle Group, Kohsla Ventures, George Soros

No environmental studies on biofuels or agrofuels have taken into account the effects of deforestation or peat destruction.

In Brazil, government officials have wrenched land from the hands of indigineous farmers so they can plant soybeans for use in biofuel.

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