Cars versus Bellies

U.S. Feeds One Quarter Of Its Grain To Cars While Hunger Is On The Rise

The 107 million tons of grain that went to U.S. ethanol distilleries in 2009 was enough to feed 330 million people for one year at average world consumption levels. More than a quarter of the total U.S. grain crop was turned into ethanol to fuel cars last year. With 200 ethanol distilleries in the country set up to transform food into fuel, the amount of grain processed has tripled since 2004.

The amount of grain needed to fill the tank of an SUV with ethanol just once can feed one person for an entire year. The average income of the owners of the world's 940 million automobiles is at least ten times larger than that of the world's 2 billion hungriest people. In the competition between cars and hungry people for the world's harvest, the car is destined to win.

How can we expect to solve our environmental issues without environmental justice considered. It is not "save our environment to maintain our lifestyles" it should be change our lifestyles to save our planet for all creature (rich poor, two leg - four leg - winged...on land, in the sea and in the air).
Will we ever get to that point? Or do we need some type of disaster to motivate us?