{"id":12475,"date":"2008-04-21T15:45:03","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T22:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/04\/21\/corn.html"},"modified":"2008-04-21T15:45:03","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T22:45:03","slug":"corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/21\/corn.html","title":{"rendered":"Corn!"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the “sleeper” stories of the past few years — and probably the next — is how the government-subsidized shift in corn production (and, indirectly, other agricultural production) from food to biofuel is causing increasing ripples in the world food supply and the problem of world hunger<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alas, farm subsidies tend to be among the most sacrosanct things in the budget, once established.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the “sleeper” stories of the past few years — and probably the next — is how the government-subsidized shift in corn production (and, indirectly, other agricultural production) from food…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[63,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1903,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/11\/gas_pumps_as_hi.html","url_meta":{"origin":12475,"position":0},"title":"Gas pumps as high as an elephant’s eye","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 11-Apr-02 1:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There's a big debate brewing in the Senate over mandating a significantly increased use of ethanol in vehicle fuels. 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