Madam, - The forecast increase in the price of bread may be startling, but it illustrates a very important point that many environmentalists have failed to grasp.
The increasingly large-scale production of bio-fuels is shifting the battle for oil into a battle for land, where the desire of the rich for fuel is in direct conflict with the basic need of the poor for food. In focusing solely on greenhouse gas emissions, the wider environmental and social impacts of profligate energy use go unresolved. - Yours, etc,
PATRICK DOOCEY, Navan.