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> If you check the label on the packaged goods you buy, corn is pretty much in all of them in one form or another. Well yeah: corn grows really well in the Ame
by wtbob 12y ago
> If you check the label on the packaged goods you buy, corn is pretty much in all of them in one form or another.
Well yeah: corn grows really well in the American Midwest; it's pretty cool that we're able to make so many products from it (kinda like the work George Washington Carver did with peanuts, which grow very well in the South).
- nerdo 12y agoIt's also an efficient crop as it uses the C4 pathway, and as you've said can be reprocessed infinite ways, even as gas as you see here. Great for an industrialized market economy.