In David Blume's book: "Alcohol can be a gas" are listed several facts regarding corn as a food. In summary, it goes like this. (I have always found this book to be factually accurate, and I have tried to find irregularities). 1. 10 lbs of corn makes about one-half gallon ethanol and 3 lbs of DDGS (Dried Distiller's Grain plus Solubles). 2. 3 lbs of DDGS makes about....one pound of beef 2. 10 lbs of corn, fed to cows, makes about one pound of beef.(No difference from #2 above, in other words, pulling the carbohydrates out of corn prior to feeding to cows does not affect its usefulness as a cow feed) 3. 80% of corn grown in the US is fed to cows, 10% is exported, 10% is human consumed (2002 numbers). (Probably more is fed to cows because the exported corn is, you guessed it, fed to cows). So, in summary, first pulling ethanol out of corn, then feeding the by-product to cows does not alter the amount of beef produced. There is one issue that does need discussion: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_11175.cfm The above URL references an article that indicates DDGS is not sanitary, and its use is promoting E.Coli in beef. If that is true, it seems easily remedied by more sanitary DDGS handling practices. Anyway, back to the main arguement: ALL corn should first be refined to ethanol, that way we can harvest the ethanol, which will lower the price of fuel worldwide by increasing supply. This will help lower food prices by lowering the energy costs of food production. Kurt _________________________________________________________________ Making the world a better place one message at a time. http://www.imtalkathon.com/?source=EML_WLH_Talkathon_BetterPlace -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20080707/5dfc1fb7/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel
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