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A light at the end of the tunnel….
….signaling the demise of ethanol? The corn-based product has been probably the worst fraud environmentalists have inflicted on us. Ethanol is more of a pollutant than the gasoline it’s supposed to help clean up. And meeting the so-called “demand” has driven up the price of corn to the point where it’s caused starvation in the rest of the world…and food riots. I put the word “demand” in quotes because there’s no real demand….just a government mandate. Fuel companies have been ordered to use more ethanol than they need or buy “ethanol credits”. (A Texas sharpie was recently convicted of selling credits for an ethanol plant that existed only in his imagination. Bilked…
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Our government, here to protect us….
….The New York Times discovers the antibiotic menace. Of course, years after the problem first surfaced. This article is revealing on several accounts: First, the most recent warning from the FDA was published in February but no one noticed until a public service group publicized it. The government didn’t do much to spread the word. Second, the inevitable professor of agriculture at a major university—Minnesota—jumps in to defend Big Ag. Third, the prof lets the cat out of the bag. The antibiotics are used to “keep cows healthy”…not to cure a sick cow. A cow on pasture is as healthy a creature as there is. It is only when you feed…