Sunday, February 8, 2009

Corn & Soy products

Purchase only Organic Corn & Soy


About 65% of corn and 75% of soy and canola grown in the U.S. are Genetically Engineered

According to the Worldwatch Institute, 70 percent of corn produced in the United States is used to feed livestock, and worldwide nearly 80 percent of soybeans produced are used to feed livestock.


The 2007 U.S. corn crop was one for the record books, with 13.1 billion bushels of production eclipsing the previous high, set in 2004, of 11.8 billion bushels, according to the Crop Production 2007 Summary released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). The 2007 production level was up 24 percent from 2006.


It takes 8 lbs of grain to produce 1 Lb. of meat. Soybeans are the #1 crop of the clear cut rainforest, most of which goes to feeding livestock destined for slaughter.



800 million people today live with chronic hunger and yet 70% of the grain in the U.S. and 40% of the grain worldwide is harvested for animal consumption.
Why not skip the middle-man and bring food to hungry people instead of animals.


The Centers for Disease Control estimates that one in three American children born in 2000 will develop Type 2 diabetes. High-fructose corn syrup is a major contibutor to this disease, as well as obesity. All told, the standard American diet (S.A.D.) costs us billions of dollars in health care costs each year. Taking corn syrup out of a child's diet will give them a much greater chance of having a healthy future.


According to David Pimentel, a professor in Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. "Organic corn is not a large part of the industry, but it should be," Pimentel published a study in 2005 demonstrating that, over 22years, growing corn organically produced the same yields as conventional growing and used 33 percent less fuel. - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/06/AR2008030603294.html


Most corn is grown as a monoculture, meaning that the land is used solely for corn, not rotated among crops. This maximizes yields, but at a price: It depletes soil nutrients, requiring more pesticides and fertilizer while weakening topsoil.
“The environmental footprint of high-fructose corn syrup is deep and wide,” states agricultural expert Michael Pollan, “Look no farther than the dead zone in the Gulf [of Mexico], an area the size of New Jersey where virtually nothing will live because it has been starved of oxygen by the fertilizer runoff coming down the Mississippi from the Corn Belt. Then there is the atrazine in the water in farm country — a nasty herbicide that, at concentrations as little as 0.1 part per billion, has been shown to turn male frogs into hermaphrodites.” - http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/still-spooked-by-high-fructose-corn-syrup/

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