Beginning the Chase

On the subject of food, corn is an interesting piece of vegitable matter-- Most of it is inedible and undigestible, yet many humans seem to grow and eat lots of it in addition to trying to add it to just about everything else you eat. In addition some of your governments seem to encourage growing corn by paying your farmers to do so. Now there's a movement to turn your main food source into a fuel for your horseless carriages.

Am I the only one to notice the flaw with this?

I'm not sure how your fuel works in those carriages, but when you're jumping the demand so high for your food to be used for non-food production it's obvious the price of food skyrockets. So maybe you all want to get together and rethink your current ideas about what you want to eat and what to make into fuel before you end up starving yourselves to death.

Just like the old saying goes, "You are what you eat". But it confuses me a bit, because this very statement neglects an unusual part of the food chain, cannibalism. Much like how Newtonian physics fails at the quantum level, the food chain fails in this aspect of the food cycle. But is it really a cycle? I present the following conjecture, not to answer these questions, but to make less sense:

Known: You are what you eat
and Cannibals eat other people and/or themselves (allowing this brings us to the problem)

Problem: If cannibals eat themselves and you are what you eat, what in essence are cannibals?

The problem underlying the problem here is how far are we willing to go to find out. Accidentally, we may have stumbled upon the answer to one of life's greatest questions. For review, here are those questions (in general):

1) Who are we?
2) Why are we here?
3) Where are we going?

Ignoring the obvious and misleading answers (I'm me; driving to the coffee shop; I'm going to get a orange double-mocha-frappe-latte), we may find out who we really are by cannibalism, thus closer to answering question 1. But once someone eats themselves and gains the answer, they will have been eaten and thus cannot give us sufficient data back to the rest of the living world in order to solve the problem (to avoid doing it ourselves). And since no one wants to this themselves, we are left to wonder.

In conclusion, I have discovered the Problem in Answering the Problem Underlying the Problem, or as I like to call it: PAPUP. We know how to get the answer to one of life's greatest questions, but we are either a) too unwilling to participate b) too lazy, or c) too busy to try. Since we will never know who we are, that makes me slightly annoyed, so then there is no reason to stay here, and I'm going to go home. Wait a sec...