Corn is the country’s biggest crop, and it’s grown for many reasons, such as food for people and animals, fuel for alcohol, and to send to other countries. In the last few years, almost all of those uses have grown.
But the amount of corn grown for high-fructose corn syrup has gone down by 21% in the last ten years, from 521 million bushels in 2010 to 410 million bushels last year.
High-fructose corn syrup is found in ketchup, drinks, candy, and other processed foods. Archer Daniels Midland, which runs the biggest corn syrup plant in the world in Illinois, does a lot of business in this area.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services, has long said that corn syrup is a “poison” that causes many people to be overweight. Kennedy wants the business world to avoid high-fructose corn syrup.
A recent story in the New York Times talked about Kennedy’s views and how they were different from those of most Americans in the corn belt, who largely backed Trump.
Kennedy wants to wean America off of corn syrup, but production has been going down for a while now. The USDA says this is because people are looking for alternatives to the product.
Since 2010, more booze for drinks and animal feed, among other things, have been made from corn.
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