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They have also been blamed for increasing grain demand and pushing up prices at a time of growing threat of famine in some parts of the world.

他们也批评生物燃料的生产增加了对谷物的需求并推高了粮价，并增加了世界上一些地区食物不足的风险。

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The global spike in grain prices over the past year is in large part due to the impact on grain supplies of the growing demand for meat.

过去一年中全球谷物价格的突高，很大程度上是由于肉食需求的增长对谷物供应造成的影响。

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Chile has not undergone the job-destroying switch from traditional farming to the highly mechanised prairie grain-growing that is typical of the United States or, more recently, parts of Europe.

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Filburn, upheld a Roosevelt-era law limiting grain production to prop up prices even when the farmer in question was growing grain entirely for his own consumption.

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But in the great grain growing areas, by and large, it's just left to rot, or sometimes even burned in the fields.

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