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NWR: HFCS and obesity
- Thread starter Jeff Grossman
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Kay Bixler
Kay Bixler
Then what will we do with all that corn?
A man can only eat so many fritters you know.
A man can only eat so many fritters you know.
Kevin Roberts
Kevin Roberts
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Then what will we do with all that corn?
A man can only eat so many fritters you know.
We should probably feed it to cows, and subsidize the farmers (uh, I mean ADM) for their upcoming loss of income.
Field corn fritters taste like shit.
Cheers,
cornlanddwelling_Kevin
Doug Padgett
Doug Padgett
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Then what will we do with all that corn?
A man can only eat so many fritters you know.
Is a fritter anything like a hushpuppy? It's a little unclear to me, but I can eat a lot of hushpuppies.
Kay Bixler
Kay Bixler
originally posted by Kevin Roberts:
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Then what will we do with all that corn?
A man can only eat so many fritters you know.
We should probably feed it to cows, and subsidize the farmers (uh, I mean ADM) for their upcoming loss of income.
Field corn fritters taste like shit.
Cheers,
cornlanddwelling_Kevin
It's true, cow corn tastes pretty bad.
Doug Padgett
Doug Padgett
originally posted by VLM:
Grits
c'mon y'all.
Boy, I had some good grits this morning.
But I think the same problem still exists. I recall one of my mother's parental hardship stories involving eating field corn (as grits or mush, I guess) as a kid.
robert ames
robert ames
come on, corn ain't good for cows either. it nutures that bad e. coli that thrives in the human gut. cows are grass eaters, remember?
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Then what will we do with all that corn?
A man can only eat so many fritters you know.
If biofuel's a non-starter, let's bring back sour mash, that age-old high density storage form for corn.
originally posted by Doug Padgett:
originally posted by VLM:
Grits
c'mon y'all.
Boy, I had some good grits this morning.
But I think the same problem still exists. I recall one of my mother's parental hardship stories involving eating field corn (as grits or mush, I guess) as a kid.
Try these sometime.
I tend to do the yellow.
Also endorsed by Peter Liem in case you are a VLM-hater.
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
To all the funny-men hereabouts... the growers of field corn should grow something else.
Doug Padgett
Doug Padgett
That looks like good stuff. I'm partial to Anson Mills, though the marketing is a little precious. My grandfather was the miller at a little place in Rutherford County--Yelton's Best--and I grew up on that. They're defunct now, though the brand still exists.
What hate? Nothin' but love here.Also endorsed by Peter Liem in case you are a VLM-hater.
That's some breakfast. I don't know what I would do with the rest of my day after a breakfast like that.
Doug Padgett
Doug Padgett
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
To all the funny-men hereabouts... the growers of field corn should grow something else.
When tobacco started to go away, my uncle and cousins tried blueberries and strawberries, and talked about pot ("if it was legal, I'd grow it"). They still have farms, but now they work in real estate or retail banking or healthcare administration.
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Tobacco farming goes back to the very start of our nation, so I can't ask what your family grew before.
But that is not true of field corn. The HFCS plague did not exist 30 or 40 years ago. What were the field-corn growers of today growing then?
But that is not true of field corn. The HFCS plague did not exist 30 or 40 years ago. What were the field-corn growers of today growing then?
Doug Padgett
Doug Padgett
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Tobacco farming goes back to the very start of our nation, so I can't ask what your family grew before.
But that is not true of field corn. The HFCS plague did not exist 30 or 40 years ago. What were the field-corn growers of today growing then?
I agree and I wasn't making argument with you at all. Just noting that it's difficult to change and being a farmer is hard. I heard about a guy who grows radicchio and belgian endive for the Triangle restaurant market. Vinyl villages and other varieties of residential subdivision have also been profitable crops this last decade.
Before our farmers grew corn for HFCS and ethanol they grew it for feed and booze. Don't know about Iowa, but down south, once upon a time, they also grew timber, hemp, cotton, rice, and indigo. They still grow soy. But government policies matter. A constellation of factors, including direct payments to farmers and sugar price supports, make HFCS happen.
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Tobacco farming goes back to the very start of our nation, so I can't ask what your family grew before.
But that is not true of field corn. The HFCS plague did not exist 30 or 40 years ago. What were the field-corn growers of today growing then?
As you may know, Michael Pollan makes the claim in "Omnivore's Dilemma" that US ag policy changed radically during Earl Butz's time as Sec of Ag in the Nixon admin, going from a series of efforts to prop up pricing to a system of policies that encouraged production of corn. Moreover, he made the claim that HFCS is the direct result of an unprecedented corn glut that resulted from such policies, much as the production of moonshine resulted from an early corn glut in the 19th C. As to what those farmers were growing, most were growing corn 40-50 years ago, too, but at yields that were 1/4-1/5 of what they get today. Of course, there were also tomatoes and green vegetables grown on farms here in the Ohio Valley.
Mark Lipton
robert ames
robert ames
so did you hear about the farmer that won ten million bucks in the lottery? when asked what he was going to do with it, he said he'd keep farming until it was gone.