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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

So, the corn I get out of a can, from the store; is the same corn ,from the 
same fields, as the "corn-on-the-cob" I buy at the store?  And, essentially 
would be the same corn James and Rob grow on their farms?  Just picked and 
processed differently?   ..............bobford


--- On Sun, 10/19/08, Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
> Subject: RE: [Homestead] Fall Happenings
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, October 19, 2008, 4:45 PM
> > you are strictly taling 'feed corn'?  I'm a
> bit confused.  I know very
> > little about this subject ....bobford
> 
> In our industrial agriculture corn is a "feed"
> stock for all sorts of
> things.  It is obviously feed for all Confinement Feeding
> Operations.  Most
> of the animal products sold in the US are feed corn is
> various forms.  We
> are feed corn in all sorts of things, HFC is in almost
> everything we eat now
> days in addition to all sorts of other corn based
> ingredients.  It is also a
> feed stock for ethanol plants.
> 
> All this corn is bought and sold as a commodity, a bushel
> of corn is a
> bushel of corn no matter where it is produced, the only
> important
> consideration is the moisture content.  GMO corn
> complicates the issue but
> only is corn for human consumption but it is so completely
> mixed now that
> even we humans are eating a lot of GMO corn.
> 
> We are truly "children of the corn."
> 
> Don Bowen  KI6DIU
> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html

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