[Secret Agent Man]

Plus from all accounts, that corn will be more useful and needed for feeding animals. Animals, not people. The corn used for ethanol is feed corn, not corn people buy to eat.

[Clutch Martin]

“Plus from all accounts, that corn will be more useful and needed for feeding animals. Animals, not people. The corn used for ethanol is feed corn, not corn people buy to eat.”

But people eat the bird, egg, meat, dairy from all those animals that eat the corn...

[Mr. Lucky]

Corn used for ethanol is also used for feeding animals. Spent distiller's corn is generally marketed as Distiller's Dried Grains with Soluables (DDGS) which is nutritionally similar to corn gluten meal.

Raw corn is not efficiently digested by animals, particularly cattle. Once the starch has been removed by distillation, the spent grains are very efficiently digested.

Government picking of winners and losers in the energy industry is a really bad idea, but it's a bad idea for reasons wholly unrelated to some imagined notion that the world diets are being deprived of enough corn starch.

[beethovenfan]

And people eat the animals. So the corn is still feeding people.