[NatureNS] Nature and Food

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Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 06:54:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Paul MacDonald <paulrita2001@yahoo.com>
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--- Marian Fulton & Art Harding
<fulton.harding@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Industrial Corn - scary how many corn and corn based
> foods we are eating! 
Hi Marian and All
An interesting question is corn. When one grain is so
much more efficient at producing energy than any other
- it seems that its use would have much less
environmential impact than any other grain for a given
number of calories.
At present, I understand, weanling pigs, weighing 12
kg about are been shipped to Iowa for growing out to
100 kgs on local Iowa corn. It takes less energy to
ship the pigs than to ship the corn to Nova Scotia. In
addition the parts of the corn the pigs don't use can
be spread back on the land making the corn production
more environmential efficient. Have you visited the
Meteghan River in August?
The return trip for the truck brings feed to NS to
feed the sows to raise the weanlings.
seems like the Green way to go!
A complicated question but enjoy the spring. 
Paul




 
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