magicicada

Ooh, #2 is a good question. Moving corn into fuel production resulting in cane sugar going back into food is an interesting possibility. Unfortunately, a lot of food policy is driven by lobbying for specific political interests rather than by a big picture approach, and that may be why there isn't much talk about those connections. I wonder how much favoring corn over sugarcane is due to a) corn grows more places than sugarcane, b) the corn growing states had better politicians than the sugar growing states, and c) sugarcane grows in places like Cuba that US policy doesn't want to support economically.