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Re:Can the Dutch Get the World to Eat Bugs? by thegoatrope on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @12:36PM (#2869010)
I vaguely remember it being some huge number, like 80%-90%? The rest of it goes to ethanol and high fructose corn syrup and other processing. I'm pretty sure the amount of corn that is grown for humans to eat as corn directly is (much?) less than 5%.

A quick Google search showed roughly similar stats.

Re:Can the Dutch Get the World to Eat Bugs? by nas on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @02:56PM (#2869663)
Ethanol is now using about 40% of the US corn crop.