Most of the US corn goes to cattle feed and not food directly, and the only reason that makes sense is because corn is so cheap. (It's actually not a very good

Most of the US corn goes to cattle feed and not food directly, and the only reason that makes sense is because corn is so cheap. (It's actually not a very good food for cows, who are adopted to eating grass.) So maybe you are taking food off the table, but if we cared about cheap food we wouldn't use the corn to grow cattle anyway. Any vegetarian will tell you in a heartbeat that eating beef is kind of like eating oil, because most beef was raised on corn and growing corn is like an inefficient method of transforming oil into food due to the large use of petroleum-based fertilizer. For an interesting story about this, check out "The Oil We Eat" by Harpers (http://www.harpers.org/archive/2004/02/0079915 http://www.harpers.org/archive/2004/02/0079915).