Corn kernel including food, biofuel, and bioplastics. Corn is a popular food throughout the world in many forms. It is used in breakfast cereals in the Western world (as corn flakes) and it is a grain that can be eaten raw off the cob, although it is usually preferred cooked. It may be fed to animals or humans. In the United States, for economic reasons such as government subsidies, corn is the basis of many products, in the form of high fructose corn syrup, in favor of cane sugar. A genetic variant that accumulates more sugar and less starch in the ear
Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (Germany) Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection was adopted on 22 November 2005 simply to alphabetize its functional parts in the German language. The current Minister for Food and Agriculture is Julia Klöckner. The Parliamentary State Secretaries are Maria Flachsbarth and Peter Bleser. Robert Kloos is the Permanent State Secretary. In addition to the Ministry Management (including management staff), it consists of six departments (as of October 2014): Under the auspices of the BMEL are various Federal agencies, legally independent institutions under public law and government research institutes: Political Party: Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (Germany) The Federal Ministry for Food