thegoatrope

I for one welcome our new robot overlords.

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.

I go to a largely agricultural school, and that's actually one of the programs they have. Legumes are both nutritious and fairly easy to grow, so are great for small farming communities where protein deficiency is rampant. Animals are used for their products like eggs and milk to sell at market and not used for protein. I'm not really poor, but legumes are much cheaper than meat and have extended my own budget, so I think it can apply for families in America as well.

I mostly agree with what you said, with the addendum that poor Americans do have the tendency to buy cheap, bulk process foods for the same reason they wouldn't be able to afford "Seaweed, legumes or whatever". I'm not saying that families who need to save money for rice do this, but families with a little more money seem to always have alot of processed food.