Where is the documentation of these numerous problems Pigs have with eating corn with fructose?
Numerous problems including rapid weight gain?
What is wasted in ethanol production?
8 billion a year in subsidies.
Engine parts rusted due to water attraction.
40% of our crop of edible corn reduced to a pig food supplement.
An Iowan, eh?
Not surprising that those who seem most in favor of ethanol are those most likely to benefit from its continued government mandate and subsidies.
If it made any economic sense at all to turn corn into ethanol, and ethanol were actually a consumer desired product, it wouldn't require a mandate and subsidies.
Economics 101.
Conservatism 101.
No wonder it seems so far beyond your understanding!
The problems with pigs eating too much corn fructose. It’s called FAT. Too much fructose consumption converts to fat in humans and animals both. Yeah they will gain weight but it will be too high in FAT. The market today is for lean meat, not fat. That stuff went out with the 50’s. Without the stillage you can feed DDG out at a higher rate to animals than you can straight corn.
What are you talking about ‘edible corn’? PEOPLE DON’T EAT FIELD CORN. About half the supply of corn before ethanol went to animals, about a fifth to soda pop, and the rest to starch and a zillion other products like corn starch, germ, etc. However, people don’t eat #2 yellow dent corn as an unprocessed product. Any corn eaten that way is another type of corn.
I don’t advocate for ethanol subsidies or mandates.
I don’t advocate for using ethanol as fuel.
I advocate for using farm products for non-subsidized, non-mandated added-value ag.
No added value ag, the product sits on the ground and rots. Or feeds people who hate us. No processing jobs. Keep the jobs here, don’t feed our enemies, don’t let it rot.