[marzell]

We make corn that isn't even considered a food, legally. We subsidize that using a lot of tax dollars, to the absurd point that we pay farmers to NOT grow corn and leave fields empty. Everyone is paying for way more corn than is needed through taxes, while people claim this keeps costs low (it's more, you are just paying it in taxes). And then we come up with excuses to use more of it, like corn syrup and ethanol. This is absolutely absurd.

[smegger001]

I think it is considered a strategic defense resource. Imagine we end up with a WWIII consisting of dozens of proxy wars where the nuclear powers carefully avaoid direct action on eachothers soils to avoid the war going nuclear. International food, oil, materials and goods shipments would be severely curtailed. Corn can be used to produce, sugars, oil, and alcohol and biomass for fuel, food, and chemical feedstock for plastic manufacturing. While there are better sources for any of those not many can do all of them and be easily grown in mass in our own backyard

[tptacek]

I don't understand your point about "legally considered food". If the corn is used to produce corn syrup, it's legally food; if it's not, it has some other purpose, and I don't know why I should care.