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Default Food shortage ethanol follies, I've planted a food garden.

In article ,
" Frank" wrote:

When farmers recycle the meat waste product back into the animal feed the
consequence was mad cow disease. What do they do with the meat waste
products now?

Brain and spinal cord (hardly all meat waste) is what causes problems
with mad cow.


six times more bad cholesterol and fat than grass fed beef. It worries me
when super strong pesticides kill the toughest weeds but couldn't touch the
corn stocks.

Why? Pesticides interfere with certain processes going on in weeds
that aren't going in corn stocks. You get upset when strong pesticides
kill the toughest weeds but leave your lawn grass alone. You worried
about how antibiotics kill the toughest germs but leave you alive? Same
principle.