Rich Hunn Wrote:
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> People seem to think that corn for food is taken
> off the ears and put in cans or frozen or
> whatever, there is virtually none of that in the
> Midwest or has there ever been so. Fresh corn is
> a Western and small farm crop. Virtually all corn
> used for ethanol purposes is shipped out after
> fermentation as wet cake or DDG (dehydrated
> distiller's grain) and used as high protein
> animal
> food. It allows growers to feed with lower content
> grasses reducing the overall cost of beef and
> pork production. So what's "Time to go back
> growing corn as food" mean that hasn't been
> explained?


The livestock that eat the corn are eaten.