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If biofuels mandates are a 'crime against humanity' than basically any action which doesn't minimize food prices is a crime against humanity.
Unless you are willing to make the totally supportable, but in my mind deeply morally wrong, argument that 'property is theft,' or an argument that we have an obligation to not value a commodity more than a poorer person, than this is an awful argument.
Past awful. It is awful the way the idiots who talk about 'post carbon' are awful.
If you want to argue that wealthy nations and wealthy people have a moral obligation to not let poorer people starve than have at it. But growing crops for fuel is no more a crime against humanity than growing, say, coffee rather than maize is a crime.
