Would somebody be so nice and explain corn to me?

[Deja Q]

It's a vegetable, yet it's a starch. Full of empty calories and carbs. Apart from it's yummy-for-the-tummy taste, is it really healthy or good for us?

Thx!

[BrklynLiberal]

1. You can use it to keep from dying of starvation.

[Blue-Jay]

2. I saw some corn the other day

in the toilet.

[clydefrand]

3. IMHO, it's very good and good for you. Lots of fiber; starch

isn't bad when eaten in moderation, vitamins, minerals.

Corn is very versatile; tortillas, corn bread/spoon bread/muffins, corn fritters, corn pudding, corn syrup...which may not be so good, corn oil, mixed veggies, domestic animal food for cows, hogs, poultry, and even fish bait, but the best of all
Fritos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yum, yum and Doritos. Neither of which I eat more than 2-3 times a year.

AND CORN LIQUOR!!! :bounce:

And then we can't leave out the energy industry...fuel for our vehicles IF the big oil producers would allow more of it.


Here's a propaganda site for you on the benefits of corn.
http://halife.com/family/food/corn.html

[Deja Q]

4. and if we have enough land to grow it on... remember,

money means more to these people than something rational like living.

Once topsoil is bulldozed, it's not easy to reclaim. And more and more farm land gets sold at today's high prices because, you guessed it, farming is no longer profitable.

In ~30 years, I suspect the bulk of humanity will have starved to death because we all rely on a small number of corporations who do the actual work. We're born and raised to do other things.

[NoSheep]

7. That is a good point! Hell, I feel like I'm back in college where learning

was fun!

[Dave Reynolds]

5. After you eat it,

you can then pick it out of the toilet to use as fish bait.

Sorry, that was a little nasty, wasn't it?

I meant to say that about peanuts.

[Deja Q]

9. Conservation and recycling, I like it!!

:evilgrin:

:puke:

but

:evilgrin:

[NoSheep]

6. When I was in college, I learned in an anthropology class that corn is

a highly developed grass. The evolution of it has been observed in ancient settlements over time; where grasses were cultivated to be larger and more useful for feeding the population. Cultivated to a form where the harvest yielded more food. Bigger, better, taller, more corny!;-)
I know it has been a large part of many indigenous population's diets. I'd be willing to bet that bodies adapt and use what is available to survive. To us, the nutrition may seem empty, but in a population, like some in Nepal and Tibet, they only eat potatoes or certain grains and have very little novelty in their diets. And then there's popcorn, a personal favorite.:D

[Nikia]

8. It isn't very nutritious

When I was in 4-H and took cooking projects, our 4-H leader told us that we should never include corn or bacon on our sample menus because they were both deviod of nutrition and not part of the basic 4 food groups (that was current thinking at the time).