“It offends me to see fingers pointed against clean energy from biofuels, fingers soiled with oil and coal.”
Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaking at the UN food crisis summit in Rome, Italy, and defending biofuels from the charge that they displace food production (The Guardian, London, 3 June)
“There are many hungry whale-meat lovers in Japan.”
Kristjan Loftsson, chief executive of Icelandic whaling company Hvalur, which is exporting whale meat to Japan despite a UN trade ban. Iceland and Norway have resumed whale meat exports for the first time since the early 1990s (Reuters, 2 June)…
