Maize Minutia (updated)
6/24
UPDATE: Isn’t it funny how things work their way along sometimes?
6/21
Here’s a few things that you might not know:
- Rice is not the #1 food crop in the world; that would be corn. Rice is second and wheat comes in third.
- The planet produced 817,000,000 tonnes of corn in 2009.
- Maize (aka corn) is Africa’s most important staple food.
- North America is the world’s largest producer of corn, producing about half the worldwide yield.
- 40% of North America’s corn production gets made into biofuel to satisfy the yuppie need for a masturbatory sense of enviro-self-satisfaction.
- The price of corn has more than doubled in the last year.
But hey, that’s gotta be just a coincidence, right? The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization doesn’t think so… (more…)