• MtnPoo@beehaw.orgEnglish
    64·
    6 months ago

    So we’re going to give food to planes instead of hungry people. does this guy know it’s an election year?

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOPM
      10·
      6 months ago

      We’re actually giving about half the US corn crop to cars already. The other half goes to animals, with a rounding error going to people.

      I also recommend reading the article: the policy makes it difficult to get a subsidy to convert corn into jet-a fuel

      • MtnPoo@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        I saw the part about it being hard to get the subsidy. Sounds like it’s happening anyway.

    • Ooops@kbin.social
      6·
      6 months ago

      Actually we give corn to animals you can then later eat. If we actually start eating what we instead inefficently feed into animal farming, we could feed twice as many people as exist and still have left overs for creating fuels.