Webstral, your line on ammonia has another benefit in the scheme of food production--feeding ammonia-treated low quality silages (straw and other sub-optimum feed) to milch cattle improves milk production and muscle weight. This allows cattle to be fed on less-desirable materials with the same result as higher-quality feeds--more cattle can be fed with the normal amount of regular feed. Also, this process works best on low-quality silages--better quality feedstocks are only minimally affected.
For some reason this clicked in my head when I was remembering that hominy is maize treated with lye....
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