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Corn craze makes no sense

By Gregg Patterson
ESPNOutdoors.com

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Using corn as this country's primary alternative fuel source is dumb. Cows, chickens, hogs and other food-producing animals all depend on corn as their primary food base. Grow more corn you say to meet the demand for both animal feed and as the main ingredient for an alternative fuel source? There isn't enough farmland in the U.S. to do that. The U.S. government pays farmers through the Conservation Reserve Program to grow wildlife habitat instead of crops on what is marginal or poor cropland. ...

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