Negusa Nagast 🚀
Nagas
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« on: August 12, 2012, 03:34:27 AM » |
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It's not as simple as telling farmers to stop selling their corn to ethanol producers and sell to livestock ranchers instead. Much corn is raised in monocultures across the corn belt, and each of these monocultures is usually tailored to a certain use by utilizing specific strains of corn, such as for human consumption, animal feed, ethanol etc. Each strain is engineered to be more advantageous for its use.
Even if you overcame the political difficulties (and the corn/agribusiness lobby is a powerful beast that must be slain), there are still the economic hurdles. It would take time to make the transition.
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