Corn: Kind of the Worst Thing Ever

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	Corn: Kind of the Worst Thing Ever

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5-28-2007 4:10 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/64717d0e-9a5d-4ddb-b3ac-325ca0843f91/AF41FAA1-340B-4532-9789-6997310993DA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?title=corn_kind_of_the_worst_thing_ever&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1" href="http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?title=corn_kind_of_the_worst_thing_ever&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.sciam.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?title=corn_kind_of_the_worst_thing_ever&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1"><P>First Michael Polla's book <I><A href="http://scoboco.blogspot.com/2007/03/omnivores-dilemma-by-michael-pollan.html">The Omnivore's Dilemma</A></I> told us how corn, that energy-intensive, artificial fertilizer-hungry, and <A href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,994390,00.html">probably obesogenic</A> foodstuff is, unfortunately, the basis of the food chain that supports a goodly portion of the human beings on Earth. (Another good one on that obesogenic count <A href="http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/02/22/philpott/">here</A>.)</p> <P>Now Grist has done a nice <A href="http://www.grist.org/comments/food/2007/05/24/ethanol/index.html?source=food">round-up of the reasons why it also makes a lousy feedstock for biofuels</A>:</p> <P>* <A href="http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/1/14/133338/207">When compared to gasoline, it offers only a slim advantage in terms of greenhouse gas emissions</A>, on account of its production being so energy intensive.</p> <P>* Using it for fuel has, predictably, driven up its cost. You're not seeing the results at the grocery check-out because <A href="http://www.grist.org/comments/food/2006/12/13/fuel_vs_food/">this mostly affects the poorest and most vulnerable people on Earth</A>.</p> <P>* <A href="http://www.globalsubsidies.org/article.php3?id_article=6&var_mode=calcul">Even as a fuel it's really expensive, which means it has to be propped up by your tax dollars</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AF41FAA1-340B-4532-9789-6997310993DA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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