We know Americans are getting fatter and fatter. We also know we are a nation addicted to junk food that is making us a nation of fat people, but where is junk food grown? Where are the junk food farms?
Farms grow corn and soybeans. Both have a lot of sugar type molecules that makes us crave Doritos, Coca Cola, Hostess Twinkies, powdered sugar donuts and slurpies. Tons of corn and soybeans are turned into edible food-like products.
This is a very profitable business and is growing every year as our population is hooked on this type of product along with refined flour (white bread and pasta}, refined sugar and the deadly fructose which is in almost all processed foods.
A bushel of corn costs $3.70. From one bushel of corn, 440 packages of Doritos selling for $0.99 can be produced. That's a pretty fair gross mark up--$3.70 to $440.
Soybeans find their way into our food through soybean oil and feed for livestock. This not only fattens cattle, but also fattens people.
Corn is also used to make syrups, sweeteners, starches and oil. 55% of the sweeteners used to make food and beverages are derived from corn.
We are taking a lot out of our soil to produce these demanded crops. Competition from foreign sources is demanding an ever increasing harvest of these crops resulting in the soil being over worked stimulated with chemical fertilizers and insecticides and pesticides.
Thank you, Eric deCarbonel in www.MarketSkeptics.com for a stimulating look
at today's agriculture
With Love and Kindness,
THE HATMAN
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