How can you support soy beans as a viable bio fuel energy source when 90% of Paraguay’s forest has been destroyed to make way for these soy bean crops? No doubly America has something to do with this. You can’t just post this article with out doing your research by you recommending soy beans creates a good image in the readers mind about soy beans as a biofuel. This article could also contribute to more crops and deforestation in Paraguay due to this positive publicity.

Tim,

Your claim is wildly inaccurate. 90 percent of Paraguay's forests have not be cleared for soy--acreage expanded 899,900 ha in 1990 to 2,645,000 ha in 2008, or nowhere near 90 percent. Cattle ranching has in fact been a bigger driver of deforestation in Paraguay.

But this is beside the point. If you bothered to do any research at all, you would have found the dozens of articles of articles on mongabay talking about the problems with biofuels produced by converting native ecoystems. For example, here are two relevant feeds:

http://news.mongabay.com/news-index/biofuels1.html?limit=200

http://news.mongabay.com/news-index/amazon%20soy1.html?limit=50

http://news.mongabay.com/news-index/soy1.html?limit=50

Mongabay is not a conspiracy by "America" to mislead the public.