[permaculture] Corn Ethanol's Dirty Little Secret

lbsaltzman at aol.com lbsaltzman at aol.com
Wed Aug 29 12:51:14 EDT 2007


However, the corn used for ethanol production is not human food. After? the ethanol is fermented the remains of the corn used is still a good animal? feed.
? Little, if any, feed value is lost and some may be? gained

There is still something wrong with this picture.? Food for animals is indirectly food for people. And more importantly, growing massive amounts of corn as feed for animal stock is a horrible example of monoculture industrial farming and not such a good idea. Returning zero to the soil as every bit of plant material is used is also not a good idea.? Ethanol is the wrong solution for our problems and is just another source of profit for the industrial agriculturalists who are both?destroying the fertility of farmland at a rapid rate, and who are polluting the waters of North America at a frightening rate.
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