The corn that should be going into the tortillas is being turned into ethanol which is used to contaminate our gasoline. This is raising the price of basic food for many people around the world. The environmentalists, in league with farmers and politicians, refuse to lower their gaze and absorb the reality of the human cost to another one of their Utopian schemes.
I agree with everything you say, but I still wonder “why now” and why just the tortillas. We had tacos for dinner tonight, and the shells were made of corn. Why are the flat, uncooked corn tortillas the outlier?