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Corn Futures: Consumer Politics, Health, and Climate Change
Jedediah S. Purdy
Duke University - School of Law
James Salzman
Duke University - School of Law
August 27, 2008
Duke Science, Technology & Innovation Paper No. 27
Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Paper No. 216
Abstract:
The Mexicans have long been known as the Corn People, but that label perhaps provides a better fit for modern day Americans. The simple seeds of corn play a fundamental role unprecedented in the history of human agriculture. Corn now underpins two major sectors, arguably the two most important sectors, of our modern economy - food supply and energy supply. How we choose to consume this seed has far-ranging consequences for pressing issues as far apart as climate change and diabetes, energy policy and immigration, tropical deforestation and food riots.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID1259784_code485747.pdf?abstractid=1259784&mirid=2
Jedediah S. Purdy
Duke University - School of Law
James Salzman
Duke University - School of Law
August 27, 2008
Duke Science, Technology & Innovation Paper No. 27
Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Paper No. 216
Abstract:
The Mexicans have long been known as the Corn People, but that label perhaps provides a better fit for modern day Americans. The simple seeds of corn play a fundamental role unprecedented in the history of human agriculture. Corn now underpins two major sectors, arguably the two most important sectors, of our modern economy - food supply and energy supply. How we choose to consume this seed has far-ranging consequences for pressing issues as far apart as climate change and diabetes, energy policy and immigration, tropical deforestation and food riots.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID1259784_code485747.pdf?abstractid=1259784&mirid=2