Wouldn’t it be better to use British and European wheat for food rather than biofuel?
A. Using wheat in a biorefinery does use it for food. Biofuels made from wheat do not compete with food, rather they enable it to continue to be used. The supply of animal feed, which is the main use for wheat grown in the UK and mainland Europe, is fully maintained by biorefining wheat, since only the starch/sugar component is used, leaving the protein untouched and thus still available for animal feed. Indeed, this process actually makes better use of the wheat, by enabling its protein content to be upgraded, and thus used as a protein concentrate, thereby reducing the amount of soy protein concentrate that has to be imported into Europe.
