Food Crisis

With profits increasingly threatened by rising fuel prices, airlines are turning to biofuels both to reduce costs and to give the industry a sustainable image.

There is widespread consensus that the world is facing another food emergency. Redeye speaks with economist Robert Pollin. He believes that speculation is behind the current rise in food prices.

Alert! Radio #176 -- Interviews with professor Robert Pollin on the next world food crisis, labour columnist Herman Rosenfeld on Wisconsin and chief Toghestiy on the proposed Enbridge pipeline in B.C.