{"id":242688549,"date":"2012-09-09T21:29:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T21:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=242688549"},"modified":"2012-09-09T21:29:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T21:29:09","slug":"big-bad-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=242688549","title":{"rendered":"Big Bad Corn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever creeped your way through a corn maze at Halloween, you know how it can grab ahold of your imagination, turning benign stalks into monsters and discarded cobs into severed limbs. It\u2019s just a trick of the light\u2013but take a look at the ways that the U.S. uses corn, and you\u2019ll see that a holiday thrill isn\u2019t the scariest thing about this product. It was first subsidized in the late \u201870s as a fossil fuel alternative, but it\u2019s turned out to be inefficient source of fuel. Not only that, ethanol from corn actually increases the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at a higher rate than gasoline. Yet, the U.S. pays $10 to $30 billion dollars each years in farm subsidies to raise even more of it, with no clear benefit to consumers. So every time you eat a pound of corn products\u2013which statistics say you will do 37 times over this year alone\u2013remember this graphic, which was created so you can learn stuff about the effects of corn, America\u2019s biggest agricultural product.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.learnstuff.com\/big-bad-corn\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.learnstuff.com\/assets\/BIG-BAD-CORN-FINAL.gif\" alt=\"Big Bad Corn\" width=\"500\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever creeped your way through a corn maze at Halloween, you know how it can grab ahold of your imagination, turning benign stalks into monsters and discarded cobs into severed limbs. It\u2019s just a trick of the light\u2013but take a look at the ways that the U.S. uses corn, and you\u2019ll see that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=242688549\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Big Bad Corn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242688549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242688549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242688549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242688549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242688549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242688549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242688549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}