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There's a good side to that, since thymidine isn't a dietary sugar. Should we use dietary sugars for any other end than human consumption, we will risk couplin
by chicob 9y ago
There's a good side to that, since thymidine isn't a dietary sugar.
Should we use dietary sugars for any other end than human consumption, we will risk coupling the surge in that commodity 's price to food prices. Like biofuels - mass production of corn for biofuel at the current level of demand for fuels would probably mean, in the worst scenario, that popcorn would become prohibitively expensive.
- maxerickson 9y agoThere's 20+ pounds of corn in a gallon of ethanol. That gives popcorn quite a bit of runway (it isn't the same corn, but I guess the dollars/acre work out okay for popcorn).
- chicob 9y agoMaybe popcorn was a bad example, but biofuels do drive food prices. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN28615016 http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN28615016