How a Nebraska ethanol plant turned seeds into toxic waste

Grist
By Diana KruzmanApr 21, 2022, 10:45 am214 pts
Jody Weible keeps a jar on her front porch that she refuses to open, because the smell would make her eyes water and her throat close up. Inside is a goopy mixture of fermented corn seeds that she collected nearly four years ago from a field near her home in Mead, Nebraska, a town of about 600 people. The seeds…

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