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Re:How much food can you really grow in a city? You’d be sur... by absconditus on Sunday July 12, 2009 @12:41PM (#700299)
Lest anyone doubt that corn is overproduced, here are some actual numbers:

http://www.card.iastate.edu/iowa_ag_review/winter_07/article...

See the paragraph titled "Corn Utilization and Surpluses for 2004".

This of course wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for the fact that we (US taxpayers) pay for it. The artificially low price of corn has also led to a glut of processed garbage being sold back to us.

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Re:How much food can you really grow in a city? You’d be sur... by easp on Sunday July 12, 2009 @06:57PM (#700682)
And don't forget how its spurred other perversions, like the corn ethanol industy.
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Re:How much food can you really grow in a city? You’d be sur... by easp on Sunday July 12, 2009 @06:57PM (#700681)
And don't forget how its spurred other perversions, like the corn ethanol industy.
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