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I'll be grumpy and opionated and not care who it may or may not offend.
Corn is garbage, end of story.
It's a garbage food source for human or livestock. It's basically a cheap variant of sugar with no nutritional value.
The outer part of the kernel is inedible and is an intestinal irritant. Have a little diverticulitis and want to end up in the hospital wishing death was near... eat a bunch of corn. The inner part of the kernel is a carb/sugar.
Want a good steak? Think grass fed, hormone free. Same thing with chicken, turkey...
A cow fattened up on corn feed and shot full of hormones is one nutritionally screwed up and unhealthy animal. Think of that fat kid in grade school that grew up on McDonalds, Coke and video games. The track stars and football players on the other side of the coin are eating a balanced diet, not primarly sugar carbs.
If we were running out of oil, corn converted to ethanol is an alternative worth pursuing. We are not. Oil is abundant. So, it's absolutely rediculous to be paying farmers to grow corn and artificially creating a demand for subsidized corn, subsidized E85.... Pull that governement (taxpayers) money out of those markets and watch the excitement about growing corn go away. Figure out a way to convince farmers to produce nutrional vegetables, grass fed cattle, bison, emu. There is so much more out there that could be profitable, nutritional, plentiful... instead we pay farmers to grow a garage crop.
Let's summarize. Oil is abundant. Americans have the worst nutionally screwed up diet in the world, and highest rates of diabetes and dimentia.
School us again how corn is an awesome crop?
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