DETROIT – Today, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) introduced H.R. 4966 – the Stop Price Gouging in Grocery Stores Act to prohibit price gouging by grocery stores, including “personalized price gouging” where stores use consumers’ sensitive personal information against them to raise prices. Across our country, families are facing an affordability crisis and struggling to put food on the table. Grocery prices […]
The US also needs to fix its corn subsidy problem. So many farmers grow exclusively corn because the subsidies just make it impossible not to, and most of that just gets turned into ethanol.
If the government were to cut off corn subsidies, or just start subsidizing better food options, a lot of the food scarcity and price problems faced by Americans could be solved.
But that would make gas more expensive, so obviously that takes priority…
While only ~10% of corn is human food (including corn syrup), the rest is about evenly split between ethanol production and animal feed (~45% each). https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/corn-and-other-feed-grains/feed-grains-sector-at-a-glance
I mean, ethanol for fuel isn’t great, and it represents most of the new corn consumption over the last 20 years, but an enormous amount of US corn goes to pigs and cattle.