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Only about ~10% of corn is used to make food consumed by people. Of the remainder, roughly ~30% is used for animal feed, ~30% for export, and ~30% for fuel etha
by vegetablepotpie 5y ago
Only about ~10% of corn is used to make food consumed by people. Of the remainder, roughly ~30% is used for animal feed, ~30% for export, and ~30% for fuel ethanol.
Replacing the cheap processed food production with grazing land will not do much to increase the amount of animal protein available to the population. If our goal is to have more pasture, it would make more sense to eliminate ethanol production, reduce the amount of corn we feed to animals, and reduce the amount of corn we send to the world.
- flenserboy 5y agoYes. Replace the corn with cows.
- delecti 5y agoWhat is the export percent used for? I don't think it's true, but if that export 30% were all used for food for people then it'd be disingenuous to say only 10% is used for human food.
- wintermutestwin 5y agoI don't know, but maybe it is being exported for use as cattle feed like the alfalfa in California: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26124989 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26124989
- politician 5y agoI’d add “fuel ethanol” to the list of things worse than Bitcoin.
- mlyle 5y agoA little bit of it is good for various reasons. Trying to solve a substantive part of our liquid fuel problem with it is madness.