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No mention of the amount of food diverted to biofuels, such as corn being converted to ethanol. Stopping doing that would be the easiest way to increase food p
by radford-neal 4y ago
No mention of the amount of food diverted to biofuels, such as corn being converted to ethanol. Stopping doing that would be the easiest way to increase food production.
Maybe this omission has something to do with their ritual invocation (on no evidence) of climate change as a cause of the food shortfall. Not mentioning biofuels may be a matter of solidarity with other climate alarmists. Even though biofuels are a total scam, that damage the environment rather than help, pointing that out might lead people to ask whether other aspects of the climate agenda are also dubious.
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- Throwawayaerlei 4y agoCarbohydrates are the real feed stock in corn (maize) used to make ethanol. Left over are "distillers grains" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillers_grains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillers_grains as in "protein, fibre, fat" which is used as animal fodder, especially for ruminants who can digest the fiber. The real total loss is in biodiesel made from vegetable fats. I can't remember the numbers now, but I read the German use of them is a substantial fraction of the sunflower oil that's no longer available from the Ukraine.
- radford-neal 4y agoPeople need calories. The carbohydrates going to make ethanol could have provided those needed calories. I hope the Germans are just giving up on biodiesel if they can't get sunflower oil from Ukraine, rather than buying up other food oils...