On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Heather Madrone <heat...@madrone.com> wrote:

> Or if they use the non-edible parts of food crops to make the biofuel.


In the absence of GM crops and agri-subsidies this would make sense. Corn
subsidies have skewed the market place in the US at least - edible and
in-edible byproducts of corn a la crop varieties to make high fructose corn
syrup, bio-degradable corn plastics and corn fuels actually make the edible
parts rather small.

Green washing of corn plastics
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/plastic.html

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