you’ll be relieved then to remember that the main use of corn in food (aside from feeding tasty animals) is as high fructose corn syrup for those tasty fat-making sodas:
Today’s corn crop is mainly used for biofuels (roughly 40 percent of U.S. corn is used for ethanol) and as animal feed (roughly 36 percent of U.S. corn, plus distillers grains left over from ethanol production, is fed to cattle, pigs and chickens). Much of the rest is exported. Only a tiny fraction of the national corn crop is directly used for food for Americans, much of that for high-fructose corn syrup.
Corn isn’t corn isn’t corn. Dented and flint kernel corn (field corn and indian/pop corn) is mainly used for animal fodder, even after it is used for making ethanol.
Sweet corn is 100% for human consumption, but makes up a very tiny percent of the corn grown.
The only problem I see is in subsidy, remove it and let economics determine what is best.