Our food supply is based on corn. Subjecting it to speculation in the energy market is a dangerous thing.
How is our food supply based on corn? If you are talking about feeding animals to slaughter, there are superior grains. Corn is actually, in terms of nutritional potency, barely ferior. That would make other grains more valuable for both animals to slaughter and to us eating them.
There are some grains of corn, though, that are quite superior, but you have to hunt for them--they are not in cornflakes.
Subjecting anything to the current energy behemoth is dangerous.
My suggestion for restoration to sanity in this country regarding both food and energy is to seize and cause divestiture of both those massive food conglomerates (a misleading term, given the sharing of the pie) and the oil barons, Exxon, Chevron, etc. Imagine the things you can conclude are inimical to your well-being in America, and see how soon you recognize the treads of Big Oil. Halliburton, it's abandoned child--Blackwater, etc.
They are well beyond monopoly, and are only waiting for a dozen or so Boone Pickens to package up the water to place their seal--The Company credit card--in the wax.
People tend to think of processed food as against unprocessed food, but there is another point--if they own it, you're getting corn pops, whether you believe their advertising and whore scientists or not.
Only common sense in any society tells you it is getting out of hand when it becomes reduced to only a handful of hands.
