• plyth@feddit.org
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    2 days ago

    would not help in a food shortage

    Others have pointed out that it can be eaten as staple food.

    We have plenty of land not being used right now

    Land doesn’t help if there is no food.

    But we don’t have a shortage of food.

    A reserve is for out of ordinary situations.

    • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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      You can also scour the ground for pennies just in case you run out of money, too. It’ll technically bring in more money than you had before.

      You could also keep a stash of aluminum cans to turn in for money as well in case you run out of money.

      But the amounts of help these things would do is so incredibly minimal that there are much better uses of your time.

      Yes. Technically. Growing less than one percent of the land we grow for ethanol corn would mean that extra less than one percent of corn we really don’t want to eat JUST IN CASE we needed that last tiny bit.

      We could also easily open far more than that in farmland and grow other crops that are more edible first.

      But yes, technically, we could grow food we neither want nor need.

      Are you happy now?

      • plyth@feddit.org
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        2 days ago

        I am sorry but I am not happy.

        Yes. Technically. Growing less than one percent of the land we grow for ethanol

        It was 30%.It could be used otherwise if we used elecrric cars but that wouldn’t create food security.

        JUST IN CASE we needed

        Well, not starving to death is a reasonable cause to do something.

        We could also easily open far more than that in farmland and grow other crops

        Then there is other surplus food that has to be thrown away, or also be turned into ethanol.

        technically, we could grow food we neither want nor need.

        For food it’s worth having a surplus. The bad part is that food is turned into ethanol while people starve to death.

        • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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          We do not fucking need that land for food. There is no shortage of food. Nobody is fucking starving due to a lack of food. There is a lack of distribution, yes. But not a fucking lack of food.

          Furthermore, converting 250k acres of that corn that we are NOT FUCKING EATING BECAUSE IT IS BEING USED FOR ETHANOL into solar that powers cars instead would ALLOW US TO GAIN ALMOST 30,000,000 ACRES OF LAND TO GROW FOOD.

          Food that we do not fucking need in the first place.

          Jesus fucking christ.

          Have a nice day. I’m done. Goodbye.