an idea

[dchenes]

I read something the other day that said that if we started converting to running cars on corn-based ethanol, there wouldn't be enough corn to feed people.

To which I say, there's a solution. Stop putting high fructose corn syrup in everything, and use the corn for ethanol instead. That should also help some with the American obesity issue. (Why in hell does sausage need to have corn syrup in it, anyway?)

Comments

[biophile6.livejournal.com]

I hear that argument too. But the thing is, for years America has had a corn surplus...why the subsidies? Too much corn. The argument that we are taking food from the mouths of the starving (in other countries) has its merit, but for us, now, this is an additive market and not one that robs us. Yes, burning fuel rather than eating seems fundamentally wrong. But the assumption is incorrect.

I'd love to leave corn syrup out ofd stuff, it just helps give you candidiasis overgrowth.

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Here's an idea--can we make it out of kudzu?

[biophile6.livejournal.com]

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