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Old 10-17-2017, 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by suesiegel View Post
There is no shortage of people who see problems. SOLUTIONS are the hard part.

RE: corn
I read somewhere that 80% of the calories in the US comes from corn. If, you qonder how that can be realize that cattle are fattened on corn, pigs are fed corn, the chickens are fed corn and I expect farm raised fish are fed corn.
It is interesting that we would not even recognize wild corn. Corn has been hybridized by man going back to the Indians-before the Europeans or the Vikings or? found the place. The corn we use for food is so hybridized that it cannot live without a farmer. We grow GMO corn in places where previous varieties would never produce.
RE:solution
When, I was born, there were 180 million people in the US. Today there are 350 million. That is two times the people in my lifetime. Not only do all of these people need more food but due to housing, there is far less farmland available

So far science has found solutions. Will it end with SOYOLENT GREEN?
Don't forget corn syrup is used in lieu of cane sugar in many products because it is so cheap.
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