Posted on 10/02/2009 7:11:27 AM PDT by larry hagedon
A couple of points.
If you can make fuel from stover, you may impact agricultural practices but you can avoid impacting the food chain.
Second, corn should be properly processed by a steer before being consumed by a human being.
“corn should be properly processed by a steer before being consumed by a human being.”
O.K., rancher. :-)
They are just now starting to build the plants utilizing our waste streams to make the many value added products now being developed. This is what the Age of Bio Technology is all about. World wide growth in these systems is ramping up right now.
As for using corn for best purposes, It is no longer defensible to waste the resource as we have been doing.
Here is the product list of Iowa bioprocessing Center, just a few miles from my home. You will see that corn yields many kinds of products.
Products from corn;
High Fructose Corn Syrup
Corn Syrup
Dextrose
Crude Corn Oil
Corn Gluten Meal
Sweet Bran®
Dry Sweetners
Acidulants
Citric Acid
Anhydrous Citric Acid
Liquid Citric Acid
Sodium Citrate
Potassium Citrate
Itaconic Acid
Glucosamine
Natural Vitamin E
D-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate
Mixed Tocopherols
Phytosterols
FFA
FAME
Citrous Salt
CO2
Ethanol
Monosodium Glutamate
Threonine
Feed Grade Lysine
Cyclodextrins
As for corn for food, US corn growers always, always, always saturate the market. There is never a shortage of corn for sale, only of money and political will to buy it.
We still have the capacity to double current corn production in America, when we have the markets for it.
You’ve just addressed an issue that can only be resolved through Military grade Bio Fuels being Halal certified.
Absolutely we need alternatives and backups for military fuel supplies.
Our food production system and our food distribution system depend on a dependable supply of fuel too.
That’s impressive -, all the things we get, out of corn bran.
I used to get an item from corn I can’t find now: corn germ. It tasted great on cereal. Got it in a health food store.
I am concerned bio-fuels for aviation can cause problems.
Care to show me the Biblical Commandment or Article in the Constitution that says we can only grow corn for people?
In fact corn has many uses, the largest one of which is not people food but animal feed.
We are growing plenty of corn for all markets, and we can double production when we can increase the markets to sell it.
No one is starving because we will not grow corn for them.
Millions are starving because of wars, politics and because they have no money to buy corn or any other food.
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