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Originally Posted by Roody
No. The corn we humans eat is called sweet corn, at least around here. The corn used for ETOH is field corn or feed corn. I think it's the same as what our cattle, swine and poultry eat, at least so far. They are already developing special genetically engineered varieties of corn to be used for ETOH production, IIRC.
That is correct, with the other rub being that the land that is being used to grow the ETOH corn is not available for food crop production.

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