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Re:Food security and the coming storm by redisman on Sunday May 29, 2022 @05:16PM (#31552950)
Sure but thinking that the American people don’t implode if the stores are empty and you’re sent a bag of corn every month for your calories is also not realistic.
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Re:Food security and the coming storm by onlyrealcuzzo on Sunday May 29, 2022 @07:48PM (#31554016)
You can grow other calories on the land you're growing corn for ethenol and livestock feed.
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Re:Food security and the coming storm by pixl97 on Sunday May 29, 2022 @08:38PM (#31554352)
With the massive efficiency of corn its actually kinda hard to do that to the level you expect. Corn is very effective at turning space into starch.
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Re:Food security and the coming storm by imtringued on Monday May 30, 2022 @09:12AM (#31558611)
What massive efficiency? You're feeding it to animals. 80% of the calories are immediately pooped out.
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Re:Food security and the coming storm by onlyrealcuzzo on Monday May 30, 2022 @03:37PM (#31562794)
Which is why you could just feed it to people instead - or grow something else.

Solar panels destroy corn in terms of converting solar power to energy. Ethanol is geopolitical and special interests, definitely not efficient.

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