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1. and 3. are the same thing: Corn. The trouble is that it is pretty damn tough to pivot from corn to some crop meant for direct human consumption. The machine
by bequanna 4y ago
1. and 3. are the same thing: Corn.
The trouble is that it is pretty damn tough to pivot from corn to some crop meant for direct human consumption. The machinery and infrastructure we have in place to grow, transport, and process corn is almost unimaginable in size.
A pivot like this would require incredible gov't subsidies and take decades.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoYes, but feeding cows corn is silly. They can't digest it and you end up with bland greasy inedible meat, and corn is quite hard to grow.
- thghtihadanacct 4y ago100% on the cows, wrong on hard to grow. Growing in mass quantities is hard on the local environment (global if you count the affects from usage). Corn fed beef is bad.
- fredgrott 4y agoahem, wrong it gets converted to fatty acids see https://www.lakeforest.edu/news/a-difficult-reality-to-digest-the-effects-of-a-corn-based-diet-on-the-digestive-system-of-cattle https://www.lakeforest.edu/news/a-difficult-reality-to-diges... Its why they have fast weight gains In fact reducing corn yields and switching to a different crop will save farmers money as framers have to over supply fertilizer as they are planting corn too close together to get yields without using fertilizer i.e. corn take out more from soil than it gives back
- Gordonjcp 4y agoYeah, but you get bland greasy meat that's barely worth using for pet food.
- gus_massa 4y agoI like polenta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polenta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polenta (yellow corn hot porridge). Also, my family is from the north of Argentina, so during the holidays there during one or two weeks fresh corn was very cheap. So we ate sweet humita and spicy humita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humita https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humita, sweet corn pie and spicy corn pie, also whole fresh corns, and other stuff. We joked that we ate some dish with corn for lunch and some dish with corn for dinner for a week. Tamale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamale , Corn Tortilla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_tortilla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_tortilla . I guess someone from Mexico can add more recipes. (I think they prefer white corn and we prefer yellow corn.)
- madengr 4y agoHa ha, I call them grits, and eat yellow grits every day for breakfast. Through on a couple pieces of bacon or sausage, and some hot sauce.