"They invented," said Lula, "that it is going to be a shortage of food because biofuel is taking the food's place. This is pure dirty trick. It is pure roguery from those who don't have the capacity to compete with Brazilians. Brazil is no poor little thing and it already knows how to walk with its own legs and we don't want busybodies telling us what to do. If we ever need any advice we will ask for it."
He also said the world's food scarcity was a "good problem."
"The truth is," he said, "that we have a food problem, we have more Chinese people eating, we have more poor Brazilians eating, more Latin-Americans eating and I think this is a good problem."
