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Sat Jan-23-10 05:47 PM Response to Original message |
| 6. actually, only about 5% of the corn crop is sweet corn for people.. Also, all the protein in the |
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the corn used to make ethanol is recoveered and becomes high protein (and nutrient) cattle feed supplement (Dried Distillers Grains and Solubles, DDGS). So it really isn't a quarter of the corn crop becausse the DDGS replaces some corn as animal feed.
Oh, and by the way, MORE corn is used for animal feed than goes to making ethanol:  |
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