| thinkstoomuch - 11/27/2024 06:57 The rationalization is easy to arrive at. The facts get lost when asked "how much food does a semi load of wet cake make?"
A semi load of wet cake + a semi load of corn stalk bales makes a lot more beef to put in the freezer than you will get from the semi load of corn stalks alone.
I doubt it would taste real great but you could probably eat wet cake yourself if you wanted to call it 60,000 lbs of "food".
Same goes for the semi load of yellow dent corn that went to the E plant. You probably could have ate it as "food" if you really wanted to, but most people aren't that hungry. I'd rather have the beef or pork that ate the distillers and corn.
To make a long story short, food in this country is still very CHEAP. Its the cost of labor, packaging, distribution, marketing, profit margin for the processing companies/wholesalers/retailers etc that have driven food costs up in the past few years. The cost of the actual food in the package, is not much.
For example, if I take a live hog to the locker to have it processed, the processing bill is more than the value of the hog. The value of the hog is the cost of the actual food and its less than 1/2 of the cost of putting the pork in my freezer. The rest is labor and packaging.
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Our end users mind set is subtlety swayed.
