Barilla Pasta Heir Voices Concerns About Wheat Use For Energy

Guido Barilla, the 4th generation heir to the 130 year old Italian pasta manufacturing company has expressed some concerns about the recent use of more and more wheat use for alternative fuel production instead of use for food. Barilla's website offers excellent nutritional information about the importance of wheat as a major foodstuff.

Guido Barilla seems to feel that only so much land in the world can used to grow vital foodstuffs such as wheat, and it should become a serious moral question whether wheat production for fuel should compete with the use as food. Currently, like corn, wheat prices are increasing as more and more of it is used as a food product. All of this raises serious moral questions as well, whether former excess wheat supplies from major nations will begin to dry up and emergency food exports to the hungry of the world will decrease as more and more of the wheat is burned up as a form of fuel and not the life-saving substance for mankind's survival from starvation.