Is Corn Better As Food Or Biofuel? Environmental Costs Assessed
Remember how ethanol produced from corn was supposed to help solve our energy needs and environmental issues by reducing dependence on foreign oil and producing fewer air pollutants? Well, a pair of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign scientists say think again.
In a study published Tuesday in the American Geophysical Union journal Earth’s Future, Praveen Kumar and Meredith Richardson say let’s go back to thinking of corn as food.