Corn Commentary

Great Minds (?) Think Alike

Back on April 7, Michael Ramirez of Investor’s Business Daily won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartoons. Among the works in his portfolio was this:

Interestingly, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran this cartoon in today’s paper:

The similarities are striking. The logic is grievously flawed. There’s little to no connection between ethanol and food supply or prices. Read these reports for more information:

USDA: Corn Prices Near Record High, But What About Food Costs?

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City: What is Driving Food Price Inflation?

Texas A&M University’s Agricultural and Food Policy Center: The Effects of Ethanol on Texas Food and Feed