Growing Corn

     One of the things that I was surprised by was how much corn is produced. We produce so much that they have to think of other ways they can use the corn and sell it to make a profit. They are encouraged to produce as much corn as possible yet they don't know what to do with it. While watching FOOD INC. I was really shocked to see that corn was in diapers, syrup, ketchup, and even batteries!  By breaking down the corn they came up with many uses for what the corn was composed of. They also began using it as food for the animals they farm like in the fish farms where the fish are being taught how to eat the corn. It is also being fed to cows and I remember there was a farmer who was mad because he doesn't think the cows should be eating that, they are cows and they were meant to eat grass and release the waste back to the earth to help the grass continue to grow and help the environment. The other guy said that the farmers started feeding the cows corn because it was cheap and made the cow fatter quicker.The corn was so cheap that it was even able to lower the cost of the meat because farmers started feeding their animals corn as feed and it was less expensive as apposed to what cows are normally supposed to be eating. I just don't understand how they would tell the farmers to grow as much as they can and they would find a use for it, because what if corn was useless and they didn't find much to do with it. The would have produced a lot of corn just for it to go to waste and if the corn is so cheap and why are so many people in the world starving and we are choosing to feed animals corn instead of helping distribute it around the world.