The rice is, however, still eaten by humans and animals.
In our country, mainly ‘bioenergy maize’ is used to generate energy in biogas plants, and not ‘plants, municipal waste, or slurry’, as one would like to tell the citizens. Around the world more and more people go hungry, but in the wealthy industrial nations they are already growing ‘bioenergy maize’ so that the madness of climate-damaging economic growth can continue. Thirty-three percent (33%) of all maize cultivation in Germany is ‘bioenergy maize’. Incidentally, due to the heavily concentrated rainstorms in Germany, voices from experts have already been raised, attributing blame to the intensified maize cultivation (‘bioenergy maize’), since this reduces the soil’s capacity to absorb water. And now it also must be added that biogas plants emit methane. Methane is about 25 to 30 times more climate-damaging than the same amount of CO2.
That’s what the madness of the rich industrial nations looks like, for maize grown exclusively for energy production (and also to further promote the climate-damaging economic growth), although in other countries people are already starving; it’s hardly topped.
