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Latest revision as of 19:03, 2 September 2023
Corn is a food crop grown in most parts of the world.
There are 3 main types of corn:
- Sweet corn (1% of all corn grown in the USA)
- This is the corn on the cob that people are most familiar with.
- Field corn (98% of all corn grown in the USA)
- Used for making corn chips, corn muffins, and other starchy foods.
- Can be converted into sugars (high fructose corn syrup).
- Also used as animal feed.
- Sometimes referred to as "dent corn".
- Popcorn (1% of all corn grown in the USA)
Since sweet corn and field corn are different, some pro-meat activists try to spin this as "cows don't eat the same type of corn that humans do..." But that is false. Farm animals eat field corn, which can also be made into tortillas etc.