President Defends Brazilian Biofuels

Speaking during the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) conference in Brasília, the President rejected the suggestion by Jean Ziegler, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, that biofuel production is a 'crime against humanity'.

He said that 'the real crime against humanity would be to discard biofuels out of hand, and to consign countries suffering from lack of food and energy to dependency and insecurity'.

The President also called on developing countries to discuss the production of alternative fuels and the issue of food security, and added that it must be 'a rational debate, without ideological bias', based on 'scientific evidence'.

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