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When I was in a 3rd world country for 6 weeks where no corn is grown and no food products have anything from corn.... I felt starved. Without corn syrup in so many of our foods American's will be a lot thinner, but in SHTF, we would be drooling for processed sugary corn ingredients and raw corn itself. My American blood was so sweet in India that I had 100s of mosquito bites while everyone else had none. CORN IS DAMN GOOD. Give me a torilla meal or fruit roll-up any day.
Something interesting and not completely off-topic - are you aware that you can tell the Monsanto corn quite easily from non-GMO corn?
Cows will not touch it. You can turn cattle loose in a field of cornstalks of Monsanto corn - and they will eat the grass and weeds around it, but not touch the Monsanto stalks. Part of the ranchers' methods around me to clear their fields naturally in the fall is to use or rent their cornfields to cattle ranchers for winter feed up. If they planted Monsanto GMO corn - the cattle will starve first. But the 'hybrid' corn, sweet or field, that has been merely crossed with other corn types, not the Monsanto GMO? They'll graze it flat in nothing flat.
You can't tell a rancher or his cattle that there's no difference.
I've read this before. However if the premise is correct, why do deer, raccoons, etc... eat the heck out of GMO corn in the field?
As far as food storage and dried grains/legumes on the cheap, I think I'll stick with a variety of beans, wheat, quinona and such. They can be ground for flour as well as used for sprouts or planting. I like the idea of multi-pupose. To date aside from some corn meal I don't have dried corn in my food preps at all.
I've read this before. However if the premise is correct, why do deer, raccoons, etc... eat the heck out of GMO corn in the field?
As far as food storage and dried grains/legumes on the cheap, I think I'll stick with a variety of beans, wheat, quinona and such. They can be ground for flour as well as used for sprouts or planting. I like the idea of multi-pupose. To date aside from some corn meal I don't have dried corn in my food preps at all.
Good question - although raccoons and deer eat a lot of things most 'civilized' animals won't, and most humans won't (or can't). Nevertheless, it is true - it is a topic of conversation every fall with the ranchers I live around. Who planted GMO corn, who is grazing what fields, and who can't.
Kinda boring topics I guess for those not involved. But I've seen it myself - last year, we got a bunch of GMO stalks given to us by a friend - the cows wouldn't touch them, they stomped them into the mud and snow. This year, we got some field corn stalks - they practically tore them out of my hands before I could get them off of the truck! And the Dexter breed we raise are pretty well known for eating a lot of things that the Angus and Charolais won't touch...
When I was in a 3rd world country for 6 weeks where no corn is grown and no food products have anything from corn.... I felt starved. Without corn syrup in so many of our foods American's will be a lot thinner, but in SHTF, we would be drooling for processed sugary corn ingredients and raw corn itself. My American blood was so sweet in India that I had 100s of mosquito bites while everyone else had none. CORN IS DAMN GOOD. Give me a torilla meal or fruit roll-up any day.
I can't eat whole corn (forbidden, makes me ill) and the only corn I eat is corn meal. We use honey, not corn syrup (even in pecan pie!) and grow our own meats and vegetables, no processed corn syrup there. This spring when I take my beekeeping class I'll start to raise my own bees since honey is getting so expensive - plus I'll be planting 125 fruit and nut trees, I'll need more than the occasional bumble to pollinate them and my garden.
I do miss my grits, though. Have to order more from Amazon... they don't 'do' grits here.
We get 50 lb sacks of "feed" corn all the time at substantial discount. There is no difference between feed corn for animals and dent corn for humans other than a few extra cleaning steps. I can live with dust and chafe if the price is nearly half!
Dried dent corn is great for grinding into meal for baking, cooking and porridge (grits & polenta). It's MUCH easier on your grinder than using popcorn for those purposes. Although any dried corn is going to beat up your hand mill, so get a good/heavy one if you're planning to do corn (or barley).
Sweet (table) corn is an entirely different variety from dent corn. Dent corn is rather bland for plain table eating as "corn" for a side dish vegetable. Nearly all sweet corns are hybrids, especially the super sweet ones. Open pollinated heirloom "sweet" variety aren't anywhere near as sweet as the grocery store hybrids are... but they are a bit sweeter than most feed/dent corns. In any case, we also get dried sweet corn to eat as a veg, not just dent corn for grinding... you can still save a bundle if you buy that in bulk from Walton Feed and the likes (but not as much as "feed" corn vs. "dent" corn).
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Have to order more from Amazon... they don't 'do' grits here.
