this kind of shit is why i laugh when i hear someone is vegan because of the way animals are tortured in the process of extracting their goods. what? and we don't torture our plants? lmao
it's from a 1948 paper about corn steep liquor for microbiology (https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/br.12.4.297-311.1948) but it's a superb summary of the industrial processing of corn: it's scarcely a food crop and more like an industrial feedstock, torn to bits in order to get every possible useful substance out of it, even the process water (which become the "corn steep liquor" used for growing bacteria &c.) ~Χαρά
