alt Hacker NewsEthanol corn is the same as the corn grown for animal feed. https://iowarfa.org/ethanol-center/ethanol-facts/food-and-fu... It isn't human-grade corn.
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Cytobit • yesterday at 8:19 PM
What do you think they are feeding the animals for? To make food.
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quickthrowman • yesterday at 8:53 PM
It’s not sweet corn, but it’s still edible.
It could be ground into cornmeal or corn flour and consumed by humans in the event of a global food supply chain collapse. I’d rather eat cornmeal than starve or have to invade Canada to get wheat or whatever.
Ethanol in gasoline is food security policy that exists to have something to use the corn for rather than throw it away.
Corn subsidies are a few billions of dollars a year, that’s pretty cheap for food security.
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Er… it’s the same corn used to make corn syrup, corn flakes, and many other things.
It’s just not sweet corn like you’d eat with corn on the cob.