Green Options » corn http://greenoptions.com/tag/corn Posts tagged 'corn' Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:09:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en CBS Television: Exploiting Fear for Profit and “Entertainment” http://sustainablog.org/2009/10/23/cbs-television-exploiting-fear-for-profit-and-entertainment/ http://sustainablog.org/2009/10/23/cbs-television-exploiting-fear-for-profit-and-entertainment/#comments Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:09:38 +0000 Steve Savage http://sustainablog.org/2009/10/23/cbs-television-exploiting-fear-for-profit-and-entertainment/ \

Last Monday the popular show “CSI: Miami” ran a segment in which a young woman dies and it turns out to be because of a GMO corn developed by a rogue company called “Bixton Organic Foods.”  In the plot, the company willingly puts people at risk.  This fictional scenario bears no plausible tie to reality, but it fits well with the simplistic, good guys/bad guys image in the Myth that many people believe about farming.  To see how it feels to be the brunt of a distortion like this, I recommend you read a post from a real corn farmer.  

So why is it possible for CBS writers to generate fictional “drama” about the “danger of GMO” when in fact GMO technology has been used with complete safety for more than a decade on a gigantic scale?  (Having witnessed first-hand the thought and care that went into developing this technology over the past 30 years, I’m not surprised by that safety record).  There is an abundance of good information available about this technology including many confirmations of its safety by panel after panel of highly qualified, science and medical experts around the world.  I think the reason that the fear of GMO persists in certain extreme circles is the same reason that there are still “birthers” and people who are sure that health reform will lead to “death panels.”  Its not that there is much overlap between these demographics but rather that the same mechanism of “selective knowing” is involved.

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]]> http://sustainablog.org/2009/10/23/cbs-television-exploiting-fear-for-profit-and-entertainment/feed/ Alkaline Eating for Better Body Chemistry, PH Levels, and Overall Health http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/10/15/alkaline-eating-for-better-body-chemistry-ph-levels-and-overall-health/ http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/10/15/alkaline-eating-for-better-body-chemistry-ph-levels-and-overall-health/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:43:11 +0000 Lucille Chi http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/10/15/alkaline-eating-for-better-body-chemistry-ph-levels-and-overall-health/

Going to a body and nutrition expert with my husband is one of the best things we’ve done for ourselves. What was the key take away? Warning! Turn Alkaline!

Turn Alkaline? Are we magicians? Well according to biochemists we are! You can change your body chemistry with what you eat!

Chemicals have seeped into foods, air, and water, which in turn lower our system’s ability to control the chemistry of our body fluids, increasing illness and chronic disease.

The sad fact is that most food consumption in the wealthiest nations has shifted from nutritious raw foods to low nutritional value processed foods and we need to shift it back. Now that our total biological terrain is at risk, we urgently need to do some clean up by shifting our body chemistry back to the raw, organic foods it was designed to function on as we’ve evolved.

Below I’ve listed out a quick list of the good foods (alkaline) to treat your body to often…

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]]> http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/10/15/alkaline-eating-for-better-body-chemistry-ph-levels-and-overall-health/feed/ The Informant! Delves Into the World of Lysine http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/09/18/the-informant-delves-into-the-world-of-lysine/ http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/09/18/the-informant-delves-into-the-world-of-lysine/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:43:02 +0000 Keith Rockmael http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/09/18/the-informant-delves-into-the-world-of-lysine/ When was the last time any moviegoer hard heard words lysine and high fructose corn syrup in the same movie? I’m not talking about a documentary but rather a major motion picture with real celebrities and budgets and that sort of thing. Those hungry for a “corn- based” movie will be excited to check out the new film “The Informant!” which opens later this week.

While some film fans may be psyched to see the Matt Damon’s newest role as Mark Whitacre, and others queue up too see director Steven Soderbergh do something other than an “Ocean’s” film, my friend and I liked the whole corn based aspect of the film. What other film maybe except for documentary flicks like King Corn, or Food Inc. open with such info about how corn exists in a ridiculous amount of food and even non food items.  The Informant! delves right into the world of the corn based lysine and even high fructose corn syrup (the photo depicts a scene where one of the FBI agents spies yet another product containing high fructose corn syrup).

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]]> http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/09/18/the-informant-delves-into-the-world-of-lysine/feed/ HFCS and Mercury: An Interview with an FDA Whistleblower http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/08/26/hfcs-and-mercury-an-interview-with-an-fda-whistleblower/ http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/08/26/hfcs-and-mercury-an-interview-with-an-fda-whistleblower/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:10:20 +0000 Cate Nelson http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/08/26/hfcs-and-mercury-an-interview-with-an-fda-whistleblower/ I first heard of Renee Dufault through Mother Jones print magazine back in June. In their “Children of the Corn” article, they named her as the researcher who first uncovered mercury in high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).

Even before this news came out, you may have already cut the HFCS from your family’s diet. But manufacturers are sneaky. There is the corn sweetener in things you wouldn’t even suspect: ketchup, yogurt, salad dressing. Actually, condiments are the biggest culprits when it comes to the mercury/high fructose corn syrup link.

So what did this brilliant researcher receive for her tireless work? Surely, a commendation, right? Nope. Renee Dufault is currently suffering through early retirement in Hawaii.

She was kind enough to discuss her research with me and the implications of mercury in high fructose corn syrup.

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]]> http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/08/26/hfcs-and-mercury-an-interview-with-an-fda-whistleblower/feed/ Why Wheat is an “Orphan Crop:” Conclusion http://sustainablog.org/2009/08/25/why-wheat-is-an-orphan-crop-conclusion/ http://sustainablog.org/2009/08/25/why-wheat-is-an-orphan-crop-conclusion/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:14:50 +0000 Steve Savage http://sustainablog.org/2009/08/25/why-wheat-is-an-orphan-crop-conclusion/ Historical US corn and wheat yields

The chart above shows the historical average yields for wheat and corn in the US.  Note that until the 1930s the relative yields of the crops were similar and were not changing.  After that time yields of both crops began to rise steadily, but corn yields have grown at a much faster pace.  What explains this difference?

There are several interacting factors behind this, and they work together to create the “orphan” status of wheat as a crop.  Corn is a hybrid crop which enhances its yield and the ease of increasing its yield through breeding.  Wheat is harder to hybridize so it isn’t practical except for extremely high yielding wheat areas like Northern Europe.  Instead, US wheat is largely a “saved seed crop” meaning that the grower can simply save back some of the grain and replant it rather than needing to buy new hybrid seed each year.  That system is workable, particularly if the grower periodically buys some “certified seed” to have a purer stand and to take advantage of breeding improvements.  The down-side of a “saved seed crop” is that there is not a very big private seed industry to invest in the crop.  Most of the breeding is done by University and USDA breeder supported by tax dollars and there is a small private industry as well.  As I said in the previous post, these breeders have done a remarkable job with the resources they have, but in an increasingly ag-unaware society, that support is never generous.

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]]> http://sustainablog.org/2009/08/25/why-wheat-is-an-orphan-crop-conclusion/feed/ Stuff It with Nature-Fil Bamboo and Corn Batting and Fiberfills http://craftingagreenworld.com/2009/07/31/stuff-it-with-nature-fil-bamboo-and-corn-batting-and-fiberfills/ http://craftingagreenworld.com/2009/07/31/stuff-it-with-nature-fil-bamboo-and-corn-batting-and-fiberfills/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:10:17 +0000 Wenona Napolitano http://craftingagreenworld.com/2009/07/31/stuff-it-with-nature-fil-bamboo-and-corn-batting-and-fiberfills/ Fairfield, the makes of Poly-fil have gone green adding a whole new line of eco-friendly products to help green your fiber arts and crafts.

You can now quilt green, stuffyour little critters in an eco-friendly way and have bamboo pillows.

Nature-Fil batting, fiberfill and pillow forms now come in bamboo options and natural fiberfill is made out of both bamboo and PLA corn materials.

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]]> http://craftingagreenworld.com/2009/07/31/stuff-it-with-nature-fil-bamboo-and-corn-batting-and-fiberfills/feed/ Putting The “Carbon Footprint” of Farming in Perspective http://sustainablog.org/2009/07/30/putting-the-carbon-footprint-of-farming-in-perspective/ http://sustainablog.org/2009/07/30/putting-the-carbon-footprint-of-farming-in-perspective/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:48:47 +0000 Steve Savage http://sustainablog.org/2009/07/30/putting-the-carbon-footprint-of-farming-in-perspective/ no-till corn

When thinking about “carbon footprints” it helps to have real numbers to put things in perspective. The EPA estimates that for the US, agriculture represents about 8% of total human-related greenhouse gas emissions. The following is a list with a little of the detail of what makes up the footprint of an acre of a rain-fed Midwestern corn crop with a few other things thrown in for comparison. Since we grow 80-90 million acres of corn its something that matters. The values are all expressed as pounds of CO2 equivalents. If you want Carbon equivalents multiply by 12/44

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]]> http://sustainablog.org/2009/07/30/putting-the-carbon-footprint-of-farming-in-perspective/feed/ Corn is the Primary Ingredient in All American Fast Food http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/07/29/corn-is-the-primary-ingredient-in-all-american-fast-food/ http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/07/29/corn-is-the-primary-ingredient-in-all-american-fast-food/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:09:11 +0000 Jennifer Lance http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/07/29/corn-is-the-primary-ingredient-in-all-american-fast-food/ Corn dominates fast foodI was enlightened by Barbara Kingsolver’s book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle to discover how corn has made it’s way into almost everything in the American diet and dominates American agriculture. Considering this crop is a heavy feeder requiring lots of water and fertilizer, and it is responsible for the fall of ancient civilizations, it seems ludicrous that the American diet would be so dependent upon corn.  The dominance of corn is especially apparent when you consider its prevalence in American fast food.

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]]> http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/07/29/corn-is-the-primary-ingredient-in-all-american-fast-food/feed/ Plans to increase ethanol content in gas met with opposition http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/21/plans-to-increase-ethanol-content-in-gas-met-with-opposition/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/21/plans-to-increase-ethanol-content-in-gas-met-with-opposition/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:25:23 +0000 Jeff Kart http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/21/plans-to-increase-ethanol-content-in-gas-met-with-opposition/

You’d think this would be a “Buy American” type of issue. Growth Energy, an ethanol industry trade group, wants to raise the content in gasoline from 10 percent to 15 percent in the United States.

The ethanol industry, of course, is firmly behind the proposal, made to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Ethanol plant operators say a boost would bring jobs and investment on U.S. soil.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/21/plans-to-increase-ethanol-content-in-gas-met-with-opposition/feed/ Rethinking Food Production for a World of Eight Billion http://sustainablog.org/2009/07/08/rethinking-food-production-for-a-world-of-eight-billion/ http://sustainablog.org/2009/07/08/rethinking-food-production-for-a-world-of-eight-billion/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:15:39 +0000 Earth Policy Institute http://sustainablog.org/2009/07/08/rethinking-food-production-for-a-world-of-eight-billion/ old farmer in lingbao chinaby Lester R. Brown

In April 2005, the World Food Programme and the Chinese government jointly announced that food aid shipments to China would stop at the end of the year. For a country where a generation ago hundreds of millions of people were chronically hungry, this was a landmark achievement. Not only has China ended its dependence on food aid, but almost overnight it has become the world’s third largest food aid donor.

As noted in Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, the key to China’s success was the economic reforms in 1978 that dismantled its system of agricultural collectives, known as production teams, and replaced them with family farms. In each village, the land was allocated among families, giving them long-term leases on their piece of land. The move harnessed the energy and ingenuity of China’s rural population, raising the grain harvest by half from 1977 to 1986. With its fast-expanding economy raising incomes, with population growth slowing, and with the grain harvest climbing, China eradicated most of its hunger in less than a decade—in fact, it eradicated more hunger in a shorter period of time than any country in history.

While hunger has been disappearing in China, it has been spreading throughout much of the developing world, notably sub-Saharan Africa and parts of the Indian subcontinent. As a result, the number of people in developing countries who are hungry has increased from a recent historical low of 800 million in 1996 to over 1 billion today. Part of this recent rise can be attributed to higher food prices and the global economic crisis. In the absence of strong leadership, the number of hungry people in the world will rise even further, with children suffering the most.

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]]> http://sustainablog.org/2009/07/08/rethinking-food-production-for-a-world-of-eight-billion/feed/ Food Policy Friday: Barack Obama’s Advisors Have Ties to Monsanto http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/06/26/food-policy-friday-barack-obamas-advisors-have-ties-to-monsanto/ http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/06/26/food-policy-friday-barack-obamas-advisors-have-ties-to-monsanto/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:04:10 +0000 Gina Munsey http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/06/26/food-policy-friday-barack-obamas-advisors-have-ties-to-monsanto/ White House GardenThere’s an organic garden on Barack Obama’s lawn. The First Family eats local, organic, and seasonal food.

So why did the President’s scientific advisory team for last fall’s election include Sharon Long, a former member of Monsanto’s board of directors?

And why did Obama recently appoint Barbara Schaal, a plant geneticist with connections to Monsanto, to his Science and Technology Advisory Council?

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]]> http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/06/26/food-policy-friday-barack-obamas-advisors-have-ties-to-monsanto/feed/ Germany to Join Other European Countries in Ban Against Monsanto’s Genetically Modified MON 810 Corn http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/04/15/germany-to-join-other-european-countries-in-ban-against-monsantos-genetically-modified-mon-810-corn/ http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/04/15/germany-to-join-other-european-countries-in-ban-against-monsantos-genetically-modified-mon-810-corn/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:35:15 +0000 Gina Munsey http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/04/15/germany-to-join-other-european-countries-in-ban-against-monsantos-genetically-modified-mon-810-corn/ GMO Corn Maize MON 810In the European Union, there is only one permissible genetically-modified crop — and that is Monsanto’s MON 810 engineered corn.  But current law allows individual countries to bar the production of genetically-modified crops, and the MON 810 ban has been gaining momentum throughout the continent. This is despite the European Union’s continuous fight to force GM production, such as in the recent failed attempt to overturn Austria and Hungary’s ban.

Late last month, Luxembourg joined Hungary, France, Austria and Greece in banning Monsanto’s corn.  According to Luxembourg’s Health Minister Mars Di Bartolomeo, studies addressing the grain’s safety have failed to “conclude that MON810 is completely innocuous”.

Yesterday, Germany brought the number of dissenting countries to six by also banning MON 810.  German Agriculture Minister, Ilse Aigner, went a step beyond Luxembourg’s position, and stated outright that she feels “there are just reasons to assume that the genetically modified maize MON 810 represents a danger for the environment.”

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]]> http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/04/15/germany-to-join-other-european-countries-in-ban-against-monsantos-genetically-modified-mon-810-corn/feed/ Westward Ho! Hong Kong Tycoon to Invest in Africa-based Biofuels http://sustainablog.org/2009/04/07/westward-ho-hong-kong-tycoon-to-invest-in-africa-based-biofuels/ http://sustainablog.org/2009/04/07/westward-ho-hong-kong-tycoon-to-invest-in-africa-based-biofuels/#comments Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:55:29 +0000 Elizabeth Balkan http://sustainablog.org/2009/04/07/westward-ho-hong-kong-tycoon-to-invest-in-africa-based-biofuels/ Hong Kong magnate Stanley Ho is at it again. Not formulating a “Ho Plan” for Hong Kong energy security that centers around wind power, as the growing similarities between him and T. Boone Pickens might suggest. Stanley Ho’s investment du jour, while on par with his recently established eco-trend, will not be in Asia. Rather, the biofuel play will be located off of the Western coast of Africa.

Geocapital, a Macau-based investment holding company started in 2007 and comprised of partner investors Stanley Ho and Jorge Ferro Ribeiro, is in negotiations with the Government of Cape Verde to install a biofuels research and development center on the African archipelago, Portugal’s Lusa news agency recently reported.

The pair hopes to take advantage of Cape Verde’s experience producing biofuels from jatropha, a crop that yields ten times the output of corn plants. Jatropha-based biofuel is considered one of the best candidates for future biofuel production, and has already been successfully tested as a substitute for jet fuel in commercial airplanes. The poisonous seed has a long history as a fuel source: in the early 1900s, it was exported to France and Portugal for use in streetlamps.

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]]> http://sustainablog.org/2009/04/07/westward-ho-hong-kong-tycoon-to-invest-in-africa-based-biofuels/feed/ American Corn Declines as Global Crop Research is Boosted http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/04/03/american-corn-declines-as-global-crop-research-is-boosted/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/04/03/american-corn-declines-as-global-crop-research-is-boosted/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:09:29 +0000 Kay Sexton http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/04/03/american-corn-declines-as-global-crop-research-is-boosted/ cornfield

The US Agriculture Department says that fewer acres of corn and wheat will be planted in future, but this doesn’t necessarily mean a price hike. Acreage of corn being planted has dropped in part because there is less demand from the ethanol industry. Corn is used as livestock food as well as serving as a cereal and providing ethanol for a range of industry uses, including biofuels.

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]]> http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/04/03/american-corn-declines-as-global-crop-research-is-boosted/feed/ Corn-Based BioFuels Still Counterproductive http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/01/corn-based-biofuels-still-counterproductive/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/01/corn-based-biofuels-still-counterproductive/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:52:59 +0000 Matthew Phelan http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/01/corn-based-biofuels-still-counterproductive/ Here comes more dour empirical data.

Ongoing deforestation in countries such as Brazil, Indonesia and Malaysia has been further linked to the rising demand for biofuels, according to speakers at a recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS):

“If reduced U.S. soybean production results in a parallel increase in Brazilian soybean production, a potential net release of 1,800 to 9,100 Tg (trillion grams) of CO2-equivalents of greenhouse gas emissions due to land-use change is possible,” [Michael Coe of Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts] wrote in a summary of his talk. That is equivalent to more than 9 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide.

Let’s just hope someone has that cellulosic biofuel breakthrough we’re all hoping for.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/01/corn-based-biofuels-still-counterproductive/feed/ Corn-Allergy Sufferers Face Hidden Corn Everywhere http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/02/20/corn-allergy-sufferers-face-hidden-corn-everywhere/ http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/02/20/corn-allergy-sufferers-face-hidden-corn-everywhere/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 23:54:03 +0000 Gina Munsey http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/02/20/corn-allergy-sufferers-face-hidden-corn-everywhere/ Corn Allergy ImageLick a gummed envelope flap to seal it, and you’ve just tasted corn.  Lather up with shampoo, and you’ve got corn seeping in to your pores.  Brush your teeth, and you’ve got corn in your mouth.  Walk past the perfume counter in any department store, and you’ve just inhaled corn into your lungs.  The madness doesn’t end here.  Corn is everywhere.

For those of us with corn allergies, it’s not just the corn-on-the-cob and the hush-puppies that are the problem, thank you very much.  No, it’s the vitamin D in fortified milk, the food-grade wax coating fresh produce, the dextrose mixed into iodized salt, the citric acid used to rinse loose greens and baby carrots, and the cornstarch filler in baking powder. A friend of mine used to joke that I couldn’t even drink water, and that’s not far-fetched.  If you’ve taken a sip from a bottle of mineral-enhanced water recently, you’ve swallowed corn.

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]]> http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2009/02/20/corn-allergy-sufferers-face-hidden-corn-everywhere/feed/ Corn Biofuel is Toast: Here Comes Crambe http://cleantechnica.com/2009/02/19/corn-biofue-is-toast-here-comes-crambe/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/02/19/corn-biofue-is-toast-here-comes-crambe/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:53:47 +0000 Tina Casey http://cleantechnica.com/2009/02/19/corn-biofue-is-toast-here-comes-crambe/ Corn is beginning to seem more and more like the has-been-that-never-was of the biofuel feedstock scene.  An inedible, weedy-looking plant called crambe is the latest competitor to come along and stick a fork in it.  Never heard of crambe?  Then you haven’t been spending enough time in North Dakota.

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2009/02/19/corn-biofue-is-toast-here-comes-crambe/feed/ The Eco-Friendly Skies: Greening the Airline Industry http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/02/12/the-eco-friendly-skies/ http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/02/12/the-eco-friendly-skies/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:09:54 +0000 Lisa Wojnovich http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/02/12/the-eco-friendly-skies/ Aircraft De-icingYet another product has been added to the list of new and innovative things we can make from corn. Recently, Dupont Tate & Lyle Bio Products announced that, working in conjunction with Kilfrost, a major producer of de- and anti-icing fluids for aircraft, they have come up with a new de-icer derived from non-petroleum sources — namely, corn and sugar.

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]]> http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/02/12/the-eco-friendly-skies/feed/ A Bleak Outlook for Biofuel http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/02/05/a-bleak-outlook-for-biofuel/ http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/02/05/a-bleak-outlook-for-biofuel/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:01:50 +0000 Lisa Wojnovich http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/02/05/a-bleak-outlook-for-biofuel/ Corn FieldsThe downturn in the national economy has hit just about every major industry. And now it seems that ethanol is no exception. Yesterday, Archer Daniels Midland Co., or ADM, a major U.S. producer of ethanol, stated that ethanol production in the U.S. has dropped 21% since last year. Falling oil prices, a decrease in overall demand, and low profit margins are to blame.

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]]> http://inspiredeconomist.com/2009/02/05/a-bleak-outlook-for-biofuel/feed/ High Fructose Corn Syrup: Cut it Out! http://sustainablog.org/2009/02/03/high-fructose-corn-syrup-cut-it-out/ http://sustainablog.org/2009/02/03/high-fructose-corn-syrup-cut-it-out/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:42:54 +0000 Pamela McLeod http://sustainablog.org/2009/02/03/high-fructose-corn-syrup-cut-it-out/ CornIt’s been a bad couple of weeks for processed foods.  On the heels of the peanut butter recall came the newsmercury-tainted high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).  And this, of course, has reopened the debate over HFCS.

Is it the cause of obesity in America?  Is it really the same as table sugar?  Is it an evil, liquidy villain complete with horns and a tail?  Regardless of how you answer those three questions, from a sustainability perspective alone, we should stop consuming so much HFCS.  Here’s why, and how you can cut down.

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