It still doesn't seem quite right to me that our government should invest so much money in something that will reduce food production (and, at the same time, make corn too expensive for people to buy for food in some countries - this is already happening in latin america[1], though Mexico has since set an upper limit on tortilla prices[2]) when world hunger is an important issue. The only sources I could find for this were two years old; not sure if things have improved or worsened in the meantime.
It still doesn't seem quite right to me that our government should invest so much money in something that will reduce food production (and, at the same time, make corn too expensive for people to buy for food in some countries - this is already happening in latin america[1], though Mexico has since set an upper limit on tortilla prices[2]) when world hunger is an important issue. The only sources I could find for this were two years old; not sure if things have improved or worsened in the meantime.
[1] http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/18173/?a=f [2] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/world/americas/19tortillas...