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When I first saw the title of this post my immediate reaction was you should chew your food better...

But since all the corn is going to ethanol production, it's now too expensive to buy as a food....



I’m no big fan of the corn ethanol program but there are a few things about it that people either don’t know or have forgotten.

First, ethanol got it’s start as a replacement for MTBE. It was to oxygenate gas to reduce pollution not replace gasoline. That was the reason for the 10% blends.

Second, field corn is not usually eaten by people, it is eaten by livestock. The corn used by ethanol producers is field corn. A major by-product of ethanol production is called distillers grain. Distillers grain is fed to livestock and is actually more digestible than field corn. So, the corn is still used a livestock feed, not consumed in the distillation process.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.