If Your Next Hot Dog Tastes Like Cheese Curls--Blame Al Gore

May 21 (LPAC)--Farmers are being driven to extremes by the artificially induced inflation in corn-based feed stocks resulting from the nation's recent crazy fixation on corn-based ethanol. The price for a bushel of corn has almost doubled in the last year, and is now around $4 a bushel. As a result, farmers are becoming scavengers at local food processors, and the nutritional quality of the foodstocks for the nation's livestock has suffered. According to a page one article in Monday's Wall Street Journal , farmers are now feeding their stock everything from "trail mix [to] cookies, licorice, cheese curls, candy bars, french fries, frosted wheat cereal and peanut-butter cups." Traditionally, stock would be fed a mixture that was about 70% corn, the balance coming from soy meal, with added fat and vitamins. 60% of the nation's corn production went into feeding the nation's livestock.