▲ | fellowmartian 4 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
It’s not being stored. There’s no “strategic corn reserve”. What is not being consumed by people or animals gets turned into biofuel - the worst kind of fuel from thermodynamic perspective and one that would never exist without market distortion. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | fc417fc802 4 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Which means that the US is continually producing far more potential food than we actually use. That constitutes a form of food security. What it gets used for instead - be that animal feed, chemical feedstock, fertilizer, etc - is largely irrelevant. Are you certain there's no strategic reserve? If not there probably ought to be. Seems like a rather cheap form of insurance in the bigger picture. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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