Re: [CHAt] Corn oil

Not sure how we got this thread to corn but since it was brought up:  How much
corn would it take to operate our industrial/urban/suburban lifestyle?  Seems
like a can of corn to me!

DF

"Pamela J. Evans" wrote:

> Kitty - when I moved from the coal regions of Pennsylvania to the
> Permian Basin in Texas in 1982, I learned VERY quickly about the power
> of the big oil lobby. It was sobering to say the least.
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: "Kitty Morrissy" <kmrsy@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
> Date:  Thu, 2 Jan 2003 19:21:43 -0500
>
> >Jim's right and this same process is involved in just about everything.
> >
> >For those of you who don't get 'The American Gardener', or missed this
> >elsewhere:
> >http://www.vegrains.org/cgi-bin/spanish/news.cfm?newsID=590
> >
> >A chemist in MN working for Cargill Dow found the secret to making
> >everything that's made from oil, now from corn.  And the corn can be plain
> >old corn, not bio-engineered.  But look what happened to fueling cars with
> >corn, or anything else.  It gets squashed.  Apparently our country would
> >rather go to war to protect our source of oil rather than use an annually
> >renewable source of energy and materials.
> >
> >Kitty
> >
> >
> >> [Original Message]
> >> From: jim singer <jsinger@igc.org>
> >> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> >> Date: 1/2/2003 6:22:01 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] herbs > antibiotics/pesticides
> >>
> >> yes. and then fred and annie will get together at their local farm bureau
> >> and decide to lobby for a commodity board that will decide rules for the
> >> salability of the products they grow. john dow will support this effort
> >> with the common legal bribes of our political system, campaign
> >> contributions. if fred and annie grow apples, john's bribery will result
> >in
> >> an apple board, which will rule that apples must be free of the blemishes
> >> that john dow's chemicals prevent before they can be sold in interstate
> >> commerce.
> >>
> >> welcome to free enterprise 101.
> >>
> >> At 06:43 PM 1/2/03, you wrote:
> >> >Doing a Donna?  chuckle....
> >> >
> >> > > ...is that if consumers did not demand the level of perfection in
> >> > > their foodstuffs that they do, then there wouldn't really be a
> >perceived
> >> > > need for antibiotics and pesticides, now would there?
> >> >
> >> >Melody,
> >> >It's true people want the best available, but if perfection weren't
> >> >available, they'd take the best they could get.  Let's say pesticides
> >> >haven't been used yet and people are accepting of less than perfect
> >veggies
> >> >because they've not seen better. John Dow invents an insecticide and
> >tells
> >> >Fred Farmer he can sell more than his neighbors if he uses Dow's
> >chemical.
> >> >And he does.  Annie Aggie down the road can't get much for her crop
> >because
> >> >it's blemished, so she asks Fred to hook her up with John.
> >> >It's money, Melody, not the consumer.
> >> >
> >> >Kitty
> >> >
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