From: "John Beamish" 

 From my reading, they do both but I've never seen a breakdown for
pay-to-grow-something-else and pay-to-grow-corn -- I also haven't seen the
breakdown between corn-for-feed and corn-for-dinner.

On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 13:09:17 -0500, Geo.  wrote:

> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
> news:op.tm8fq8psm6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>> It is almost certainly true.  The US subsidises corn production to the
>> tune of about US$9billion annually and, not surprisingly, produces
>> about 40% of the world's output.
>
> Be fair here, by subsidizes you mean they pay farmers not to grow corn.
>
> Start increasing the demand and decrease those payments and the net
> result will be same amount of corn available for food and additional
> amounts available for alcohol production.
>
> Of course we'll be creating more greenhouse gas than we save but our
> leaders won't let that get in their way.
>
> Geo.

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