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Dr. Greene’s Organic Rx – Item #10 - Corn

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Corn fattens up America’s beef cattle, accounting for 90% of U.S. feed grains. High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) fattens up America’s human population. More land (more than 80 million acres) is planted in corn than any other crop. More pesticides and more chemical fertilizer are used to grow corn in the US than any other crop. Most of the corn, almost 50 million acres of it, is GM corn. Less than 0.016% of corn production is organic. If we change corn production, we change agriculture…(more)

 


Originally posted December 30, 2008

Filed under: Food and Drink, Green, Health

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