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Food Fight: Is Corn Food or Fuel?

January 5, 2007 By Deborah

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There is more interest in using corn as a fuel source and corn/ethanol plants are popping up faster than ever. Corn is in so many different foods that we eat everyday.

It seems like there would be enough for both.

Read on…

ethanolcorn.jpgEd Zurga for The New York Times

We quote from our review of Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma “If you eat industrially, you are made of corn. It holds together your McNuggets, it sweetens your soda pop, it fattens your meat, it is everywhere. It is fed to us in many forms, because it is cheap- a dollar buys you 875 calories in soda pop but only 170 in fruit juice. A McDonalds meal was analyzed as almost entirely corn.” At the same time, we are in the middle of a corn/ethanol gold rush. The Earth Policy Institute says that 79 ethanol plants are under construction, which would more than double…

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Debbie is a board certified family nurse practitioner with an emphasis on women's health. During the past 22 years she has worked in women's health and family practice with a focus on the integration of conventional and alternative therapies.

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