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The Feds Say Cutting Fuel With Ethanol Will Bring Down Gas Prices. We're Not Buying It
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So instead of using the crop fields to feed people, we're gonna grow corn for fuel for cars instead.
Cars are literally more important than feeding people.
Much of our corn fields already go to fueling vehicles even the corn that isn't is more than likely feed corn for livestock. It's not great for human consumption.
I thought I'd heard that corn doesnt even have any nutritional value.
It kinda has to in order to make ethanol.
You only need sugar to make ethanol, which is not nutritional.
I wound up Googling it and you're correct that it is a source of calories, carbs, protein, and fat surprisingly.
Surprisingly? Corn is how you fatten up farm animals and humans, that's been known hundreds of years. That's what "corn fed" refers to.
Food that has been eaten for thousands of years having things that our bodies need in it is surprising?
You can make ethanol dirt cheap its the carb source for fermentation.
I think it has some value but not much, not unless it's been through nixtamalization which frees up vitamins and other nutrients. Masa harina is cornflour that's been through that process. Masa Harina is also used in making tamales.
It depends on how you're using the word "nutrient". It isn't great by any means but it has carbs and carbs are a macronutrient.
It doesn't. Likely why Americans are so fat. Everything in US food has corn or is fed corn. 98.5% of corn is used for cheap sugars, oils, and precursor for plastics.
Iirc something like a third of food produced in the US ends up in garbage, so it doesn't seem like yall have shortages there.
This. People in relative comfort have no idea what starvation looks like, but are willing to sell out their own country because of some images of people on the middle of a 'food shortage'.
Already doing that
Dumb take, less than 1.5% of corn grown in USA is edible.
So even less, then.
It will bring down prices. Got a few weeks. Until the balance of costs of ethanol kicks in. Just in time to make money off of the grift.