Deadly Brew - The Human Toll of Ethanol

Bloomberg Television brings this exclusive video on the untold story of Brazil's ethanol industry.

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[Greenchamp]

"The report relies on isolated incidents, flawed data and unsubstantiated allegations. Not surprisingly, it arrives at unbalanced and

inappropriate conclusions that bear no resemblance to the industry as it is

today," says Marcos Jank, President of the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA).

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[CristianoVizinho]

I agree with xavier.

I live near where this movie was made and I know there are cases like they show, but aren't all of them. There is an other side and I think they won't show it, because they don't care about this side.

There are much ways to see the same thing. They will show their way.

[oregonmeds]

Thanks oil industry etc etc for making your bias so obvious. Clearly you don't like ethanol, and don't give one thought to directly killing people with guns and bombs as being worse. We need to make changes ourselves, get off oil and corn and start doing ethanol right with hemp, sugar cane, sugar beets, and all the truly productive crops and methods not corn which is a poor source for fuel, and only used just to get votes and keep ethanol looking less attractive. And no monsanto gmo or chemicals

[harrymde]

E-10 soll in Deutschland einen Anteil von 90%, dazu sind rund 3 Mill. t Ethanol erforderlich, dazu werden ca. 10 Mill. t Getreide benötigt .Das sind ca. 25% der Getreideernte , also 2 Mill. ha Ackerfläche (16% Ackerfläche).

Auf 2 Mill. Hektar bieten Nahrungsmittel für ca. 10 Mill Menschen!

Die weltweiten Getreidevorräte nehmen ab, in vielen Ländern herrscht Hunger (z.B. Ägypten). Mit E-10 werden die Probleme verschärft!

w w w. extremnews. com/nachrichten/natur-und-umwe­lt/b36c135e30aad53

[switchgrassfuel]

it would be cheaper to get machines to do the work.

[mikehanoo33]

Hey lets get these guys in a safe job like a coal mine , or an off shore oil rig , or try breathing the air in L.A. or any other big city that burns mostly petrol , what a sorry ass attempt by the oil companies to demonize clean bio fuels , how about that oil slick ready to kill all life in the GULF OF MEXICO , maybe this will wake some people up to the truth , if it doesn't kill the planet , over half are oxygen comes from plankton , smart move oil companies !

[mizzoulibertarian]

@jcpepejc exactly, hemp would solve this problem.

[jcpepejc]

i got a solution!!! lets use hemp to make ethanol for all our fuel needs.all we need is a decorticator to process hemp fibers and presto ehtanol. this technology has been around since the 1917 and henry ford even made a hemp car look it up ...and you wonder why this isn't in the history books because all the rich people make the books and paper and ink its printed on and those same people are the ones that put a stop to that technology . I wonder what kinda world we would live in if it was diff

[pontepreta1965]

We are kiling Iraquis for oil....so i rather use sugarcane.,..that;s history with burnig sugarcane plantations in Brazil....

[valcaron]

hurrr durrr "this video criticizes something I like, therefore it must be propaganda" durrrr

[ferdyss85]

Well, at least I never saw a war for ethanol.

[RockenWesley]

I think that the oil companies help make this propaganda to discourage you from using alternative fuel sorces. Middle Eastern workers laboring in the oil fields are probably abused just as much as this and I would not be surprised if abuse of workers is more common in the oil industry than the Ethanol industry but of course they don't tell you that.