\u201c44 million people around the world are marching towards starvation\u201d<\/em> because Ukrainian grain cannot reach them, and called for the Black Sea ports to be opened so that this grain could be delivered to the needy.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMinister Schulze was quick to blame Moscow for the development by accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of \u201cwaging a war through hunger.\u201d<\/em> She claimed that Russia had \u201cstolen grain from Ukraine\u201d<\/em> and is now taking advantage of nations depending on Russian and Ukrainian agricultural products by supposedly offering food only to those, who are \u201cunequivocally pro-Russian.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe minister has also claimed that the fact that 40 nations that are \u201chome to half of the world\u2019s population\u201d<\/em> did not condemn Russia’s actions in Ukraine was supposedly a result of their “vulnerability to food blackmail.”<\/em> She didn\u2019t offer any specific evidence to support this statement, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAt the same time, she did admit that some nations’ focus on green energy has contributed to the food shortage as well. Germany in particular should stop using food as fuel, she has suggested. Up to 4% of the so-called biofuel in Germany is made from food and animal feed, she said, adding that\u00a0“it needs to be reduced to zero, and not just in Germany but potentially internationally.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nGermany “pours 2.7 billion liters of fuel [made] from vegetable oils into car tanks every year,”<\/em> she pointed out, adding that this alone amounts to “almost a half of Ukraine’s sunflower oil production.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe ongoing conflict in Ukraine has prompted fears of global grain shortages as wheat prices soared to multiple-year highs in March. Both Russia and Ukraine are major wheat suppliers, accounting for some 30% of global exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In mid-April, however, German Agriculture Minister Cem Ozdemir insisted that supplying Kiev with “more effective”<\/em> weaponry was precisely what would have helped the world to avoid the supposedly looming “global famine.”<\/em> Ozdemir, a member of the strongly pro-US\/NATO Alliance 90\/The Greens party, also accused Moscow of “starvation strategy”<\/em> at that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\nHis position appears to be quite different from at least two groups of German public figures, politicians and celebrities, who have called on Chancellor Olaf Scholz to stop arms supplies to Ukraine and to focus on a speedy diplomatic solution instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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