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The United States is drunk off ethanol. If this were a literal truth, we'd all be having a lot more fun. But in sober reality, ethanol hysteria has finally started to affect us at home. In the U.S., ethanol is made primarily from corn-grain fermentation. Since most food items can be traced back to corn (cereals, soft drinks, meat, dairy, etc), it was only a matter of time until surging corn prices manifested themselves in higher grocery bills for everybody.
There are some 45,000 items in the average American supermarket, and more than a quarter of them contain corn (9)."
Experts are blaming the heightened cost of animal feed (for cows, chickens, pigs, turkeys, etc.) on 30% increase in corn-grain ethanol from 2006-2007 (US DOE).
"Egg prices are on the rise, nearly 30 percent higher than they were at the end of 2006, according to a survey by the American Farm Bureau Association. The national average for a dozen large eggs is $1.51, 33 cents higher than at the end of the fourth quarter 2006.[...] John Mitchell...and his dad keep their cows on a farm near Hudson, Wisconsin. The Mitchell's purchase their feed, which is largely made up of corn. Mitchell said corn prices are almost double what they were last year. He sees truckloads of corn headed off to ethanol plants in the area." (1)
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