• ericbomb@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    I think you should read more carefully what that chart is showing.

    Corn for example is purple and gray mostly.

    Purple = live stock feed gray = biodiesel

    Soy is mostly purple, so most of it goes towards feeding live stock.

    So most of the subsidiary is just being spent to make it cheaper to raise live stock.

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      1 year ago

      Just wanna point out that it’s “biodiesel and Industry” specifically because ethanol is added to almost all gas and more.

      Ethanol is trashing engines and producing more waste via dead engines, all while providing jack shit for actual cleaner energy. The corn lobby landed ethanol requirements and it’s never going away now that they’ve found that revenue stream.

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      1 year ago

      Also grains are subsidized to support the beef industry because feeding beef beef byproduct had predictable results.