You didn’t exactly see Americans rise up when we learned that diverting corn into ethanol production was literally taking the tortillas out of the mouths of hungry Mexicans. But look who’s crying the blues now over the price of corn! Coca Cola has joined Pepsi, Kellogg’s and all manner of pork and beef producers to […]
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It’s official: the demand for ethanol to power automobiles is jacking up the cost of our food. The Wall Street Journal this week details how a doubling in the price of corn largely attributable to a diversion of the grain into a growing ethanol stream is boosting the prices of meat, poultry and cereals in […]
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Why are Mexicans protesting the price of tortillas? And what does that have to do with the way we drive our cars? It’s all about corn. The first evidence of Native Americans eating corn dates back about 5,000 years. Seems they liked popcorn, from the leavings we’ve found around their campfires. It was an unusual […]
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