Another bogus ‘we’re burning our food for fuel’ article? They don’t even try to get their facts straight.
We have been producing #2 yellow dent corn for decades and non of it goes directly for human food.
Unless you consider soda pop food.
That's not the point, and I suspect you know it. The point is more and more land that would otherwise be used to grow food for humans or livestock, is being used to produce corn intended to be used as fuel (and therefore not for human consumption.)
Using land to grow corn to be used for fuel shrinks the available supply for humans and livestock, therefore driving up prices. Combined with the drought in some parts of the country and excessive rain in other parts, the combination of the three is causing prices to skyrocket.
Any reasonable thinking person knows that growing corn to be used as fuel is a bad idea from an economics and energy perspective. It takes more energy to produce ethanol than it returns. That's just the law of thermodynamics in play. The economics of ethanol from a fuel price/food price perspective isn't pretty either. It's a losing proposition any way one looks at it. The only beneficiaries are the ethanol producers who suck at the government teat for our tax dollars.