Abolish the corn welfare system. 95% of corn is not grown for human consumption. Let’s grow more of our own food.
Uh… I am not opposed to this, as a vegetarian, but… uh… the logical conclusion of this policy would be extremely unpopular. The corn that’s not for human consumption is used in industrial and manufactured products (and ethanol, which is something we actually should get rid of, it just doesn’t make sense as a product) and in livestock feed lots. If you stop subsidizing corn, meat gets more expensive.
Uh… I am not opposed to this, as a vegetarian, but… uh… the logical conclusion of this policy would be extremely unpopular. The corn that’s not for human consumption is used in industrial and manufactured products (and ethanol, which is something we actually should get rid of, it just doesn’t make sense as a product) and in livestock feed lots. If you stop subsidizing corn, meat gets more expensive.
Maybe not abolish but scale it back by 50%
Ethanol needs to go away.
Corn feed is also bad. Cows aren’t meant to live off of corn and it makes them unhealthier for us to eat.
There’s also the more recent issue of growing corn in more states drying up the water supply. Corn is a very water hungry crop.
Corn farming in the midwest heavily taxes water resources and supply
More reading.
Corn: The Welfare Crop