http://e360.yale.edu/digest/eu_biofuel_targets_encourage_unethical_practices_worldwide_study_says/2896/
Not the first time we have heard of ethical issues related to biofuels production. Besides “displacement of indigenous peoples in the developing world, higher prices for food crops, and forest loss" slave labor has been found. It was reported in 2008 (by AP and others) that an ethanol company in which Bill Clinton, Ron Burkle, and Vinod Khosla were invested in was investigated for slave labor by Brazil's Labor Ministry. Appalling conditions were found.
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