From: Amadeus Schmidt <
> Ray, if you want to increase the profits of corn monoculture producers,
then
> just go on buying meat in the supermarket. That is the pathway where over
50% of all grain and even  more of all corn
> ends up.

By creating a market for otherwise unsalable products, feedlots actually
subsidise the grain industry.  Surplus grain quickly becomes unfit for human
consumption in storage due to contaimination by rodents, insects, fungus and
the agents used to control them.  Two thirds of the Texas corn crop in
recent years was deemed fit only as animal feed at harvest due to fungal
contaimination.  Without the ability to sell this waste, grain producers
would have to increase prices for grains consumed by humans.

Belive me, American grain producers are selling as many grain products as
they can and constantly inventing new ways to market their products to
humans.  They even profit from aid programs that foster dependency on them
 and the totalitarian regimes that depend on them ) at the expense of native
food producers ( often prolonging famines while proping-up American grain
prices ).

If the American land used to produce this surplus was returned to it's
native state, the resulting Bison herds would dwarf our current cattle
production.

Ray Audette
Author "NeanderThin"