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Hello; This does not sound correct to me. I am pretty sure it is corn used to make much of the ethanol. That some of the corn might have been used in animal feed and not directly to human consumption is a possible case.technically 'food' grain doesn't get processed into ethanol, rather the land use that could otherwise go to food, went to ethanol crops.
Back maybe fifteen years or more ago there was a long report in one of the good scientific journals about this. Pretty sure a food grain problem was mentioned. Something like since so much corn grain was diverted to ethanol production there was a demand for other grains. There was not enough of the other grains to make up the difference so prices spiked for a time. I am not sure if a balance is now restored.
The way I recall it, the materials/machinery to make corn ethanol was already handy and easy to get since it is the same process as making corn liquor. The stuff was already well understood, available and was put into use to make alcohol.
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