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Ethanol corn is not the food corn, to be clear. It is bred to have as little sugar and as much starch as possible. It's inedible, unless you're a pig that likes corn byproduct or drinking corn oil. And, in the event of global war, I think we could end our enormous agriculture exports and be more concerned with a nuclear war than if we can eat corn for every meal.

If this was about that, we would grow something else. This is about agricultural lobbiests bribing congress to steal unfathomable sums of wealth from the public through subsidy.



You can grind field corn into cornmeal, that’s what they use for tortilla chips, tortillas, etc

Lobbying can have much higher returns than the 4-6% yield from renting farmland to operators, it’s about food security, not handouts.




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