Where’s the Grain?
Note: This is a response to an editorial posted in the New York Times.
Thursday’s Editorial (“The World Food Crisis,” New York Times, April 10, 2008) questioned the environmental and ethical impact of corn ethanol production. The question is: With more people and less grain, should we put the food in our gas tanks or in our stomachs?
It’s a good question. Here is another one: With more people and less grain, should we put so much grain into cows?
In the United States 70 percent of the corn harvest is fed to livestock.