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To: Kansas58

Sorry
Corn grown for Ethanol is taking land away from corn grown for FOOD!

(What I meant!)


35 posted on 09/12/2009 11:24:20 AM PDT by Kansas58
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To: Kansas58
Sorry. it does no such thing.

Less than 1% of corn grown here is of the kind used for human food consuption. And of that 1%, many years 500,000 tons of it ends up in landfills.

Hybrid corn is grown for animal feed, corn syrop production, and ethanol.

Increasing ethanol production increases animal feed production because it's the proteins from the corn that are used for making animal feed, not the starches.

More animal feed = more animals for food, not less.

37 posted on 09/12/2009 11:34:10 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Kansas58

And last I looked, I didn’t see any soda pop shortages, or fat people loosing weight because of any corn syrup production slow downs.


38 posted on 09/12/2009 11:35:57 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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