That's right, the security band around the top of the container was made of corn.
I recalled that last year's heat and drought created the lowest corn yields in more than a decade, causing corn prices to soar, that cattle were being fed cookies and candy bars in lieu of corn. We may be wishing for a candy bar ourselves this year, as corn prices start to spill over into higher prices for chicken, meat and other human foodstuffs.
But corn producers, a powerful economic and political bloc, have branched out into all kinds of other uses for their crop. Let's don't even talk about the shameful requirement to convert corn into ethanol, a bad public policy that would never have occurred if Iowa's presidential caucuses were held in April.
Let's just focus on making oatmeal packaging out of corn. I think it's a dumb idea. A better idea: use paper for packaging and use corn for food.
I remember Quaker Oats boxes that were made entirely with paper with a good old-fashioned string that zipped around the top to open it. And why did that top need an upgrade to plastic?
ReplyDeleteI just loved that string... really fun to open. And the top seemed to fit just as well as time went by.
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