corn it’s a problem. Or rather, America’s growing dependence on government corn subsidies to feed our daily lives. Beef is artificially cheap because farmers feed corn to cows, even though their digestive systems are not designed to process it. Sweet foods are artificially cheap because high fructose corn syrup is replacing cane sugar in almost everything we eat, even though it’s terribly bad for you. AND when it comes to carscorn ethanol is used to artificially reduce the cost of gasoline, despite being less efficientmore harmful to the environment, and potentially harmful to your car’s fuel systems.
Conservative politicians love to talk nonsense about exploiting working class American welfare systems because they are lazy, but they will turn around and pander to Monoculture factory farms practice unnecessarily harmful tactics to plant corn we can’t use and that no one wants to buy. These giant farms are manipulating the system for massive financial benefits in ways that have largely ended the small American family farm as a viable business.
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To help farmers during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl Era, Roosevelt’s New Deal incentivized farmers not to plant crops as a way to boost prices that stagnated due to shortages. The country subsequently switched to an alternative method that established a government-guaranteed minimum price for farmers. Farms responded by dramatically increasing supply far above demand, driving prices to rock bottom and forcing the government to shell out billions in payments. to corn farmers to make up the difference. Suddenly, if you were producing a fair amount of corn, your farm was insolvent, and only giant factory farms with economies of scale were making money. I saw this happen with milk from my grandparents’ family farm, it’s really despicable.
Companies are inventing new ways to use more corn because the federal government subsidizes it so much that it can make ethanol cheaper than gasoline. or high fructose corn syrup, cheaper than sugar. Products made from corn are worse for the environment, worse for our health, and much worse for driving in your car, but they are artificially cheap. We may be paying less for ethanol at the pump, but paying more for it at the end with our taxes and the loss of environmental balance.
Corn may be cheap, but it is costing us everything.
This article originally appeared on Jalopnik.
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