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zouhair on Oct 6, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: CoRncrete: A corn starch based building material (...

Stop using food for anything else than food, people. We don't have enough arable land to waste on this stuff.

MBCook on Oct 6, 2024 [–]

We have enough food to feed something like an extra 1.5 billion people.

Fixing waste and distribution would more than make up for it, and that’s not including the possibility of shifting corn over from ethanol instead if this proves actually useful.

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