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Old 04-18-2008, 10:58 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by cheapseats View Post
Unquestionably, use of corn for ethanol is driving up the price of seed and feed corn. Observe the impact on the price of food.
Yes, and in Mexico the poor are struggling to even get tortillas.

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WHO IS PROMOTING THE USE OF CORN IN PRODUCTION OF ETHANOL?
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Follow the money.

How are Monsanto's quarterly profits, by the way?
The show barely touched on the ethanol impact, which I thought it would. I think they said that about 10% of the corn grown goes to ethanol production. What they did hammer on is that 55% of all the corn is used as animal feed, and that virtually all of the corn is inedible without being processed first. They touched on that this is the first time in history that an Iowa corn farmer cannot feed his family with his crops.
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