In Aberdeenshire there are many oilseed rape fields. This plant of the Brassica family is used to produce vegetable oil, which is a competitor of olive oil. On one ocasion someone tried to sell me rapeseed oil by pointing at the marvellous health qualities of it. Of course when I said I was Portuguese he did not go ahead with his explanations... Oilseed rape is also raw material to produce biofuel. Biofuel is a clean source of energy and almost carbon neutral but it has a problem: it needs agricultural land to be produced. What do we want and need the most, food or fuel?
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