the corn shortage

[luckyleftyme2]

we have the great squeal from "Bushco" that we can't afford to use corn for fuel. yet we still pay farmers not to plant corn? here we have another crisis brewing in the country with leadership completely vacant from their post. I see a storm greater than "Katrina"
brewing and a ship of state without a "Skipper" to steer a course to safe harbor.
Believe me when I say the high prices for fuel,the worthless jobs that are replacing our
manufacturing jobs. The rip off prices all businesses are practicing and the loss of affordable health care is a burden the working man cannot bear! By the time those that care realize that the "skipper" is merely riding the waves till he himself is pulled safely away from the fool hardy course he choose(nov) the ship will flounder to in the storm.

[greenvpi]

1. I don't understand why those hateful people

aren't pushing for the use of food as fuel. They'll starve people if they do so it doesn't make any sense that they don't push it very hard.

[glowing]

2. I think we'd have less of a corn shortage if #1. it wasn't used as a fuel..

Hemp (again why this is illegal is just Stupid with a capital S) and #2. if it wasn't added to every pre-packaged item they could think of making.. High fructose corn syrup is in everything from juice to crackers to cookies.. everything. Perhaps we should just go back to using corn for eating on a cob, feed for horse/ cow/ pig/ chicken (and they don't just eat corn either), and for corn fritters or corn bread. Those are the uses of corn. Using it as a sugar substitute is making Americans unhealthy. The body cannot process this fake sugar.. I'd love to see a study linking HFCS to Diabetes and Obesity... So, I'm growing my own ears in my garden.

[Connonym]

3. Have you read The Omnivore's Dilemma?

I live in the midwest, I'm from Iowa even, and I had no clue of the evils of corn. That book was very eye opening.

[kansasblue]

7. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (info)

sounds very interesting.

The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals is a 2006 non-fiction book by Michael Pollan in which the author explores the question "What should we have for dinner?"

To answer this question, he follows four meals, each derived through a different food-production system, from their origins to the plate. Along the way, Pollan examines the ethical, political, and ecological factors that are intertwined in the industrial, large-scale organic, small-scale organic, and personal (hunted-gathered) food chains, while describing the environmental and health consequences that result from our food choices within these chains.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omnivore's_Dilemma

[Connonym]

8. It's really VERY interesting n/t

[msongs]

5. hemp is illegal mostly because of the COTTON farmers' lobby IMO nt

[glowing]

9. That and the forest industry..

[mainegreen]

4. We grow absurd amounts of corn.

We just grow too much of the wrong kind and use it in stupid ways.

There is no corn shortage, there is just the market behaving stupidly.

[DU9598]

6. What corn shortage?

There are piles of corn rotting on the wet ground in rural Iowa ... do you have a link?

I think there is an oil problem in getting the corn from where it is to where it needs to be.