As I understand it, it's mostly a way to sell more corn. Apparently corn wasn't worth much long, long ago, until some companies decided that it was underexploited and then marketed the fuck out of it to create an artificial demand. Now corn is in almost every processed food, as thickener/texturer (corn starch), body (corn meal), or sugar (high-fructose corn syrup).
Burning the stuff is just a way to spike the demand and increase the value of every corn crop, and to hell with people who could use that land to eat-to-survive.
(Aside from the theory, I know someone with a dairy farm. Their costs are ballooning because their feed costs—mostly corn-derived—have doubled in the past few years.)
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Date: 2008-05-09 02:06 pm (UTC)Burning the stuff is just a way to spike the demand and increase the value of every corn crop, and to hell with people who could use that land to eat-to-survive.
(Aside from the theory, I know someone with a dairy farm. Their costs are ballooning because their feed costs—mostly corn-derived—have doubled in the past few years.)