“Only 1 percent of all corn grown in this country is eaten by humans. The rest is No. 2 yellow field corn, which is indigestible to humans and used in animal feed, food supplements and ethanol.“
Just because we don't eat the corn directly, doesn't mean we aren't eating the corn.
This would be like saying "only 1% of water is actually consumed by humans, so we don't need to worry about water shortages". The world just isn't that simple.
Source: career commodities trader
This has nothing to do with ethanol mandate. Stop with these logical fallacies.
That seems like it will be a popular political move, you should tell them.
1. Prices increase, incentivizing additional plantings to offset this new demand, and feedstock supply is unaffected.
2. Feedstock supply is reduced, and we raise less livestock.
The reality will be somewhere in the middle.
Saying it isn’t edible is like saying cassava isn’t edible.
https://www.livescience.com/why-humans-cannot-digest-corn.ht...
But yes, No. 2 yellow field corn is a food for humans - just not in its rawest form.