You don't really get it . . .
Any cropland used for filling your fuel tank is lost for filling stomachs.
Are you really that selfish?
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You don’t get it.
That corn will never and can never be used to fill stomachs even if we don’t produce ethanol this year.
Farms have planting patterns and contracts decided long ago.
Much of this years crop is already planted for ethanol, let alone the fact all the money and decisions for what to plant were made late last year or at the latest January.
The farmers hands are contractually and monetarily decided, his raw materials are already in his bins for planting, if he made a business decision last year to plant seed for the ethanol industry this season he can’t change even if he wants to.
If you wanted farmers to plant food people could eat you would have had to motivate them last year, even then farmers make their own business decisions to plant seed for a particular industry like ethanol.
Aka we don’t centrally plan food and politics actually have no effect on what’s planted this year.
Food for people is likely less profitable so the farmers would have not had much motivation to plant corn that is useable for feeding people .
If we become desperate unlike the hard moldy green seed corn used to make ethanol , we (humans) can actually eat the leftover brewers yeast that results from making ethanol.
It is high in protein, B vitamins, minerals and other nutrients
The idea that corn used for ethanol “goes away” is a myth, you actually get more useable feed after processing than trying to kill animals with something that is only used to fatten animals the last week or two of their life.