Comments on: An Appetizing, and Inedible, Option http://washingtonindependent.com/1431/an-appetizing-and-inedible-option National News in Context Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:40:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: vivt http://washingtonindependent.com/1431/an-appetizing-and-inedible-option/comment-page-1#comment-5707 vivt Wed, 07 May 2008 07:49:20 +0000 http://www.washingtonindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=1431#comment-5707 Well, the companies (see list below) that have diligently spent the last 25-30 years consolidating the corn business & marketing a new product, High Fructose Corn Syrup (a sweetener which depends on GMO's for its manufacture*) did so as part of what I believe, in retrospect, to have been part of a long-term strategic plan looking towards large-scale ethanol production. I do not believe they are about to go anywhere or retool in any fashion before they have realized the the full profit of their investment in corn-based biofuel.<br>There is nothing particularly "new-fangled" about the facilitation of the sugar market (from which corn has received collateral benefit for many years): sugar protection legislation was first enacted in the 1930's; the price-support system has been amended many times since, canceled in 1974, renewed in 1981 and amended in 1985 and 1990. In early 1995, for example, when the world price for sugar was $.16/lb., the US price was $.225/lb.(opensecrets.org) HFCS producers benefited indirectly during the '70's, more and more directly in during the years which followed. Their current position has been strengthened unimaginably during the last decade -- and our presidential candidates/nominees are all indebted to the industry for campaign support in one way or another.<br><br>Archer Daniels Midland (IA), Cargill Inc (MN), Corn Products International, Inc (IL), National Starch LLC,Penford Products Co (Penford Subsidiary) (IA), Roquette America Inc (IA),Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas Inc (IL) -- member list courtesy the Corn Refiners Assoc. (<a href="http://corn.org">corn.org</a>)<br><br>* GMOs used in HFCS manufacture: alpha-amylase and glucose-isomerase Well, the companies (see list below) that have diligently spent the last 25-30 years consolidating the corn business & marketing a new product, High Fructose Corn Syrup (a sweetener which depends on GMO's for its manufacture*) did so as part of what I believe, in retrospect, to have been part of a long-term strategic plan looking towards large-scale ethanol production. I do not believe they are about to go anywhere or retool in any fashion before they have realized the the full profit of their investment in corn-based biofuel.
There is nothing particularly “new-fangled” about the facilitation of the sugar market (from which corn has received collateral benefit for many years): sugar protection legislation was first enacted in the 1930's; the price-support system has been amended many times since, canceled in 1974, renewed in 1981 and amended in 1985 and 1990. In early 1995, for example, when the world price for sugar was $.16/lb., the US price was $.225/lb.(opensecrets.org) HFCS producers benefited indirectly during the '70's, more and more directly in during the years which followed. Their current position has been strengthened unimaginably during the last decade — and our presidential candidates/nominees are all indebted to the industry for campaign support in one way or another.

Archer Daniels Midland (IA), Cargill Inc (MN), Corn Products International, Inc (IL), National Starch LLC,Penford Products Co (Penford Subsidiary) (IA), Roquette America Inc (IA),Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas Inc (IL) — member list courtesy the Corn Refiners Assoc. (corn.org)

* GMOs used in HFCS manufacture: alpha-amylase and glucose-isomerase

]]> By: jrbehrman http://washingtonindependent.com/1431/an-appetizing-and-inedible-option/comment-page-1#comment-5706 jrbehrman Tue, 06 May 2008 14:09:38 +0000 http://www.washingtonindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=1431#comment-5706 Exploiting non-food bio-fuels or even fuels made from food-grains which are subsidized for some purposes -- feeding cattle and replacing MBTE in poorly-designed vehicles -- but not for other purposes -- grits and tortillas -- takes process steam and other forms of energy, also, in the end, costly and complex, heavy chemical engineering plant. It also takes reliable and efficiently, also uniformly, tariffed facilities for farm-to-market and market-to-plant carriage of feedstock and redistribution of final product.<br><br><br><br>It is hard to see this happening with the corrupt political and economic institutions associated with our old-fangled "extractive industry" or the new-fangled "financial-egineering" mediated by the "crony" or "mafiya" capitalists of the left or right. Exploiting non-food bio-fuels or even fuels made from food-grains which are subsidized for some purposes — feeding cattle and replacing MBTE in poorly-designed vehicles — but not for other purposes — grits and tortillas — takes process steam and other forms of energy, also, in the end, costly and complex, heavy chemical engineering plant. It also takes reliable and efficiently, also uniformly, tariffed facilities for farm-to-market and market-to-plant carriage of feedstock and redistribution of final product.

It is hard to see this happening with the corrupt political and economic institutions associated with our old-fangled “extractive industry” or the new-fangled “financial-egineering” mediated by the “crony” or “mafiya” capitalists of the left or right.

]]> By: wendell http://washingtonindependent.com/1431/an-appetizing-and-inedible-option/comment-page-1#comment-5705 wendell Tue, 06 May 2008 14:04:57 +0000 http://www.washingtonindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=1431#comment-5705 Why, oh why can't we grow switchgrass etc in highway medians and on shoulders? (And then bale it when cut?) Why, oh why can't we grow switchgrass etc in highway medians and on shoulders? (And then bale it when cut?)

]]> By: vivt http://washingtonindependent.com/1431/an-appetizing-and-inedible-option/comment-page-1#comment-1202 vivt Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.washingtonindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=1431#comment-1202 Well, the companies (see list below) that have diligently spent the last 25-30 years consolidating the corn business & marketing a new product, High Fructose Corn Syrup (a sweetener which depends on GMO's for its manufacture*) did so as part of what I believe, in retrospect, to have been part of a long-term strategic plan looking towards large-scale ethanol production. I do not believe they are about to go anywhere or retool in any fashion before they have realized the the full profit of their investment in corn-based biofuel. There is nothing particularly "new-fangled" about the facilitation of the sugar market (from which corn has received collateral benefit for many years): sugar protection legislation was first enacted in the 1930's; the price-support system has been amended many times since, canceled in 1974, renewed in 1981 and amended in 1985 and 1990. In early 1995, for example, when the world price for sugar was $.16/lb., the US price was $.225/lb.(opensecrets.org) HFCS producers benefited indirectly during the '70's, more and more directly in during the years which followed. Their current position has been strengthened unimaginably during the last decade -- and our presidential candidates/nominees are all indebted to the industry for campaign support in one way or another. Archer Daniels Midland (IA), Cargill Inc (MN), Corn Products International, Inc (IL), National Starch LLC,Penford Products Co (Penford Subsidiary) (IA), Roquette America Inc (IA),Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas Inc (IL) -- member list courtesy the Corn Refiners Assoc. (corn.org) * GMOs used in HFCS manufacture: alpha-amylase and glucose-isomerase Well, the companies (see list below) that have diligently spent the last 25-30 years consolidating the corn business & marketing a new product, High Fructose Corn Syrup (a sweetener which depends on GMO’s for its manufacture*) did so as part of what I believe, in retrospect, to have been part of a long-term strategic plan looking towards large-scale ethanol production. I do not believe they are about to go anywhere or retool in any fashion before they have realized the the full profit of their investment in corn-based biofuel.
There is nothing particularly “new-fangled” about the facilitation of the sugar market (from which corn has received collateral benefit for many years): sugar protection legislation was first enacted in the 1930′s; the price-support system has been amended many times since, canceled in 1974, renewed in 1981 and amended in 1985 and 1990. In early 1995, for example, when the world price for sugar was $.16/lb., the US price was $.225/lb.(opensecrets.org) HFCS producers benefited indirectly during the ’70′s, more and more directly in during the years which followed. Their current position has been strengthened unimaginably during the last decade — and our presidential candidates/nominees are all indebted to the industry for campaign support in one way or another.

Archer Daniels Midland (IA), Cargill Inc (MN), Corn Products International, Inc (IL), National Starch LLC,Penford Products Co (Penford Subsidiary) (IA), Roquette America Inc (IA),Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas Inc (IL) — member list courtesy the Corn Refiners Assoc. (corn.org)

* GMOs used in HFCS manufacture: alpha-amylase and glucose-isomerase

]]> By: jrbehrman http://washingtonindependent.com/1431/an-appetizing-and-inedible-option/comment-page-1#comment-1203 jrbehrman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.washingtonindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=1431#comment-1203 Exploiting non-food bio-fuels or even fuels made from food-grains which are subsidized for some purposes -- feeding cattle and replacing MBTE in poorly-designed vehicles -- but not for other purposes -- grits and tortillas -- takes process steam and other forms of energy, also, in the end, costly and complex, heavy chemical engineering plant. It also takes reliable and efficiently, also uniformly, tariffed facilities for farm-to-market and market-to-plant carriage of feedstock and redistribution of final product. It is hard to see this happening with the corrupt political and economic institutions associated with our old-fangled "extractive industry" or the new-fangled "financial-egineering" mediated by the "crony" or "mafiya" capitalists of the left or right. Exploiting non-food bio-fuels or even fuels made from food-grains which are subsidized for some purposes — feeding cattle and replacing MBTE in poorly-designed vehicles — but not for other purposes — grits and tortillas — takes process steam and other forms of energy, also, in the end, costly and complex, heavy chemical engineering plant. It also takes reliable and efficiently, also uniformly, tariffed facilities for farm-to-market and market-to-plant carriage of feedstock and redistribution of final product.

It is hard to see this happening with the corrupt political and economic institutions associated with our old-fangled “extractive industry” or the new-fangled “financial-egineering” mediated by the “crony” or “mafiya” capitalists of the left or right.

]]> By: wendell http://washingtonindependent.com/1431/an-appetizing-and-inedible-option/comment-page-1#comment-1204 wendell Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.washingtonindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=1431#comment-1204 Why, oh why can't we grow switchgrass etc in highway medians and on shoulders? (And then bale it when cut?) Why, oh why can’t we grow switchgrass etc in highway medians and on shoulders? (And then bale it when cut?)

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