***** True or False:
Is genetically modified food bad for the environment and bad for the people that eat it?

Answer: False
Just ask Norman Borlaug, the man credited with saving the lives of over a BILLION (Yes, with a ‘B’) people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIvNopv9Pa8

Research Norman Borlaug. He IS the most wonderful man in HISTORY and has SAVED more lives then most countries KILL in a given year… All out of the goodness of his heart and his love of science. PLEASE watch the video above!!

***** True or False:
Not using paper is GOOD for the environment?

Answer: False
Paper companies plant field after field of fast growing "Pulp Trees" to make paper from. After they harvest a field, behind the workers, is a crew of people with seedlings to replant the field.

If you use less paper, paper companies won’t make as much paper, so they will find OTHER USES for the fields of Fast Growing "Pulp Trees".

***** True or False:
Recycling Paper is MORE harmful to the environment then making new paper?

Answer: True.
To recycle paper, you need to collect the paper, which uses trucks that burn petrol chemicals and pollute the environment.

The equipment used to sort the paper and remove such things as contaminants from food and chemicals as well as paper clips and staples uses electricity and petrol chemicals that pollute the environment.

The equipment that shreds the paper to be turned back in to pulp uses electricity and petrol chemicals that pollute the environment.

The chemicals needed to bleach the paper to make it off/white are toxic chemicals that must be disposed of and therefore pollute the environment.

The equipment needed to turn that recycled pulp back in to usable consumer goods uses electricity and petrol chemicals that pollute the environment.

Then they must use packaging (which contains plastics) and then put them on Pallets made of wood to put on the trucks uses electricity and petrol chemicals that pollute the environment to ship to the stores for you to buy.

Not only does it cost more to recycle paper but it is MUCH WORSE for the environment then growing new trees and make paper from scratch.

***** True or False:
Recycling Aluminum is worse for the environment then making new Aluminum?

Answer: False
Aluminum comes from a mineral called Bauxite that needs to be mined from the ground and smelted and processed in to Aluminum.

Aluminum, like all metals, has a 100% ability to be recycled in to ANY METAL PRODUCT and NEVER gets used to the point that it cannot be recycled. The same goes for Steel. The steel in your refrigerator was once in someone’s car. The aluminum in your Soda Can will become roof sheeting in someone’s business some day.

You KNOW that Recycling Metal is GOOD for the environment because you are PAID to bring in metal to be Recycled. The day that a homeless person is PAID to bring in used plastic bottles is the day you will know that a RELIABLE and Environmentally Friendly means of recycling plastic has been developed.

***** True or False:
The plastic, paper, glass, and metal you put in to your Blue “Recycling” trash can goes to a recycling center and not a land fill.

Answer: False
To dispose of garbage in a landfill costs approximately $52.00 a ton. To sort and recycle the garbage in the blue cans, it costs approximately $152.00 and that extra cost, if a city actually recycles the contents of the blue cans, is subsidized by the US Government. Meaning, taxpayer money goes to give people “Make Work” jobs to make you feel like you have accomplished something positive for the environment. It is a lie.

***** True or False:
We are running out of Land Fill Space for our Garbage?

Answer: False (Check Video Links Below for Details)

You can get MANY MANY more questions about the Environment and what we can do to REALLY help it below…

Penn & Teller – RECYCLING: Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onDbTL9DFpA

Penn & Teller – RECYCLING: Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0mq9skLurY

Penn & Teller – RECYCLING: Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfwE5y_GOIQ

Oh… and this article about "The 65 mpg Ford the U.S. Can’t Have" from the Yahoo! Home Page.
http://finance.yahoo.com/loans/article/105735/The-65-mpg-Ford-the-U.S.-Can't-Have

OH!!!
***** And, what is better for the environment? Organic food or locally grown food?

Answer: Local Food
http://www.livescience.com/health/060627_bad_organic.html
16 Organic Apples and a Gallon of Gas

By Christopher Wanjek, LiveScience’s Bad Medicine Columnist posted: 27 June 2006 08:40 am ET

Do you like the taste of juicy organic apples from Washington? They’re not bad, but they could taste sweeter if each one didn’t involve a cup of gasoline.

In your quest to eat healthier food and do better by the environment, you might want to place more value on local food products than on organic foods.

It might seem sacrilegious to pooh-pooh organic food—that is, food grown in pooh-pooh as opposed to synthesized fertilizers and pesticides. But as revealed in the June issue of Sierra magazine, the environmental price for organic foods is sometimes hidden.

Simply put, one must consider transportation costs. Apples grown in the state of Washington are trucked, on average, more than 1,700 miles. That adds up to a cup of gasoline used to ship each apple. California grapes require up to 4 cups of gasoline per bunch when shipped across the country. And so on.

These calculations were originally published in 2004 in a book chapter in "Environment Development and Sustainability 6," by David Pimentel of Cornell University and his colleagues.

Go local
Also, mass-produced foods, either grown by organic or conventional methods, are usually picked well before ripening to prevent rotting during shipping. They are less tasty and contain fewer vitamins and minerals compared to local varieties. In fact, this summer is a good time to visit a local farmers’ market and talk to the sellers about these issues.

I’m not anti-organic. I need to state that up front considering the angry email I received after I suggested that visiting untrained, unlicensed naturopaths practicing medicine based on medieval superstition could harm your health. I am, after all, reading Sierra, the pro-environmental magazine of the Sierra Club.

I merely hope to point out that blindly buying organically can be foolhardy.

Consider that unless you are eating rocks, all food is organic. Technically, organic refers to anything with a chain of hydrogen and carbon atoms. All living organisms are organic. So is gasoline. So is dry-cleaning fluid, which I now see advertised as "organic" by unscrupulous merchants capitalizing on the public perception that "organic" equals "safe."

What’s in a word
The word "organic" has come to mean plant-based food grown without synthetic fertilizers, as well as animals fed organic food during the few months to few years they were alive. It doesn’t inherently mean healthy or fair.

Organic manure could contain lead and cadmium, naturally. Organic junk foods can be just as unhealthy as conventional junk food, albeit with organic fat and sugar. The organic label says nothing about the rights of Central American workers growing organic bananas in squalid conditions, nor is it concerned with the similarly disgusting conditions in which organic meat, eggs and dairy products are often manufactured.

After all, organic is big business these days—nearly $14 billion in 2005, according to the Organic Trade Association—and big business is often business as usual.

Not so with local farming.
Local almost always means small-scale and thus more environmentally benign, fresher, healthier and cruelty-free. Talk to the farmer at the farmers’ market. He might use a little pesticide but likely not much because the food product is well-suited to the environment.

Less gas
The apples I buy at a farmers’ market in Baltimore are grown less than 50 miles away, and each apple "consumes" less than a teaspoon of gas on its journey to the market. Unlike the strangely happy cow on a carton of Horizon organic milk, the cows producing the (non-organic but hormone-free) milk sold locally walk freely and feed on grass and hay; they’re not pen-raised and fed organic grains they cannot digest, as can be the case with some organic milks. [Related story: Even the Cows are Unhappy]

With support of local farms, fewer farms get turned into asphalt-covered shopping malls and housing complexes, which in turn means fewer natural wetlands, forests and deserts are turned into mass-commercial farms. Supporting local farms, organic or not, also fights our perverse global food market in which $20 million in U.S.-grown lettuce is exported to Mexico while $20 million Mexican-grown lettuce is imported to the United States each year, as reported in the May-June issue of Mother Jones.

Some of the food at my farmers’ market is organic; other food is not. I don’t worry so much, as long as it is local. I can trust the food because I’m buying it from the person who produced it.
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Christopher Wanjek is the author of the books “Bad Medicine” and “Food At Work.” Got a question about Bad Medicine? Email Wanjek. If it’s really bad, he just might answer it in a future column. Bad Medicine appears each Tuesday on LIveScience.

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