Food group plans to lead campaign against crop-based fuels

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 | 3:27 p.m. CDT; updated 4:24 a.m. CDT, Saturday, July 19, 2008

ST. LOUIS — The rhetoric is set to heat up this summer over the use of crop-based fuels such as ethanol, as a number of activist groups will protest biofuels as a key reason for rising food costs. While the voices might be many, the source behind them is a single food lobbying group.

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