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Growing it to feed humans is fine. But that's a tiny sliver of the overall market. Then some if it gets made into HFCS, which is not good. Even more of it gets

Growing it to feed humans is fine. But that's a tiny sliver of the overall market. Then some if it gets made into HFCS, which is not good. Even more of it gets fed to cows, which is not good (they should be eating grass), and which have (not good) climate impacts of its own. And some of it even gets converted into fuel, which is downright dumb. Basically it's a massively subsidized crop which would never be grown at this scale without tremendous market distortion by the government. (To say nothing of the fact that it destroyed an entire ecosystem in the midwest.)

tomp 7y ago
> And some of it even gets converted into fuel, which is downright dumb Honest question, why is that dumb? Seems to be that would be the "correct" way of producing fuel, as it's zero-net-carb.
- henrikschroder 7y ago
  Growing the corn requires fertilizer, which is produced from oil, it requires irrigation and water, and it requires large amounts of land, all of which can be put to better use growing food for humans.