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by Animats 143 days ago
The US has a soy glut and a corn glut, and Germany has a potato glut. What to do with all those carbs? Feed cattle?
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Cattle, ethanol, vodka. Not sure what else with these numbers.
The US corn industry is lobbying for more ethanol in gasoline. Nobody else can absorb all those carbs near term.
5% of all land in America is used to grow corn because taxpayer money in the form of government subsidies makes it a cash crop. Socialism wealth transfer just for farming.
Soy is a pretty good protein.