[Ryman]

Please explain how using corn for fuel does not compete with food...

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Please explain how using corn for fuel does not compete with food...

Do you assume once corn is used for ethanol there’s nothing left?

If you do, you are dead wrong.

The production process for ethanol yields other products that end up in the food chain - one is animal feed.

[railroader]

Please explain how using corn for fuel does not compete with food...

Field corn (as opposed to garden variety "sweet corn") is not food per se, but is instead processed into animal feed or food ingredients.

Each kernel of corn consists of fiber, germ, protein and starch. Starch can be processed into food and industrial starches, syrup, or alcohol. The fiber and protein is used to make gluten feed, flour, grits or meal, etc. The germ is used to make corn oil.

"Food versus fuel" is a bad anti-ethanol argument based on a false premise.