So here’s the situation. The world of industrialized food feeds corn to cattle, and then works to stop the cattle burping because it is worried about global warming. And the world of biofuels holds out the promise of endless ethanol from a feedstock of cellulose in grasses. What if we fed the corn to the ethanol plants and let the cows convert the cellulose into meat (and methane)? A neat conceit from Tom Konrad, whose post A Modest Proposal For the Future of Ethanol: Cellulosic Beef is full of interesting facts on the whole biofuels farrago. Hat-tip: Gristmill.