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Dear David,
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On the same web page that your article about methane-gas-from-cattle tax article there was a Mickey D ad for a morning McBuiskette, right next to the "pass along" comment. Cracked me up. The truth is that virtually all commercial livestock are feed lot fed on corn, which makes them fatten faster than grass, their wild "normal" food of choice. As such, while feed lot cattle and hogs die within half to one quarter their normal life spans, they are bulked up so much faster by being force fed corn leaves and kernels that they can be sent to market and slaughtered much faster, before that happens. Of course the corn fat is embedded in their muscle tissue, so those of us that eat corn fed beef, pork, chicken, catfish, turkey, etc. are exposed to corn fat weight gain as well. So, driving up the price of feed lot fed food is probably a positive health issue as well as an economic one. This may fly in the face of the Food Bank Czar's postulate that every American should have a cheap food source, which is why corn is king in America. (Refer to the documentary movie, "King Corn."). For grins I also recommend a review of "Methane" at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane ouch.
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I am of the opinion that there should likewise be a flatulence tax at point of sale at fast food and other restaurants for anyone purchasing a hamburger or diner salad. Human flatulence (and heartburn) are directly related to iceberg lettuce as a major source of human generated methane gas; as well as fatty substances and lettuce in hamburgers, from direct consumption. What do you think of that?
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A fan of your 15 seconds of fame articles,
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J Warren Richardson, Grand Prairie
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P.S., I recently sent an email to my Texas state and national elected legislators to the effect that I like to see reversed a decade long position that corn should NOT be subsidized such that the current trend to make it into bio-fuel will make it ever more expensive as food; my reversal is because high fructose corn syrup (which is distilled into alcohol but also used as food additives) are directly linked to type 2 diabetes. Let the price of that crap go out the roof is fine by me, now. Maybe it will start to be removed from virtually every processed food we eat, as a result. My wife and I have all but emptied our cupboards of canned and prepared goods after reading the labels of these and finding only about 15 out of one hundred canned , packaged and beverage items had no high fructose corn syrup (or malto dextrose) in their ingredients.
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Note: High fructose corn syrup is inert. That and malto dextrose are very good food preservatives and they are very much cheaper than sugar to sweeten foods and beverages. They are nothing but empty calories. The problem is that they do not let your body know that you are full when consumed. They do not trigger the "Full" response. As a result, one is still hungry and one overeats or over drinks to try to get "full." The over-consumption tends to turn into fat around the middle part of the body - which is a precursor to type 2 diabetes. While the Food Bank Czar had a good intention by making sure everyone has something to eat; like all postulates, the consequences of postulates are not always what one would intend when fully played out. As type 2 diabetics overwhelm our health services due to needing amputations and as they die off in ever increasing millions, food will stretch further for those still alive. E.G., Pulitzer's gun powder and Gatling's rotary gun were intended to end war by making it too ghastly to do war because of these inventions. Cheap, subsidized corn for food is now on that list of postulates with disastrous consequences to both human health and the atmospheric environment, too.
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