Is Ethanol In Fuel a Crime Against Humanity?

From Glenn Reynolds:

UH-OH: Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis.

Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.

The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by an internationally-respected economist at global financial body. . . .

"Political leaders seem intent on suppressing and ignoring the strong evidence that biofuels are a major factor in recent food price rises," said Robert Bailey, policy adviser at Oxfam.

Perhaps they just fear being tried for crimes against humanity.

SO WHEN DOES THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT GET INVOLVED? We've already heard that pro-biofuels policies in Europe are a "crime against humanity" according to UN Special Rapporteur for the Right to Food Jean Ziegler.

Now Al Gore's acting nervous:

I’m waiting for the Looney left who are constantly calling Bush a war criminal and seeking an international criminal indictment of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and others in this administration to begin the hue and cry for putting Al Gore and the rest of the Democrats (and Republicans) in Congress on the dock. Starving the world’s people seems like a pretty serious crime.

Get the ropes and pitchforks ready, I’m in.