watching a documentary called King Corn. basically EVERYTHING we eat derives from corn fertilized by ammonia, genetically modified to be grown as cheaply and effectively as possible. this corn is not edible, but is sent to factories to be made into corn syrup to be put into nearly every food on the shelf. corn syrup contains very small levels of poisonous chemicals, comparable to cigarettes. a person who drinks one soda per day nearly doubles their chance of developing type 2 diabetes. our generation may be the first in history to live a shorter life span than the generation before us simply because of our corn syrup consumption. even the meat we eat is corn-based. cattle are fed a steady diet of this inedible-to-humans corn for up to 180 days. if they continue to eat corn any longer than that, they die. their digestive tracts cannot process the corn, and they become sick from eating it. nearly 70% of antibiotics in the U.S. is fed to livestock. because of the diet we impose upon our livestock, the meat we ingest has a 65% fat content. and this whole viscous cycle is put into place so that Americans can pull up to a fast food restaurant and pay one buck for a burger.
oh, and the corn that isn't used for food is put directly towards the making of ethanol.
i am thoroughly disgusted,
but happy to have the awareness of this. think about what you're eating, ya'll
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