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Pesticides
- How many birds do you think die a year because of pesticides?
67 Million
- FACT: Pesticides killed 25% of our bees in the winter of 2006/2007. That's tens of billions of bees
-What might pesticides put unborn fetuses at risk for?
Growth and development issues, 70% increase for risk of Parkinson's disease
- FACT: In China, 500,000 people a year suffer from pesticide poisoning, and approximately 500 of them die
- FACT: The production of pesticides can kill. In one incident, where 40 tons of pesticides were accidentally released, 15,000 people were killed, and 100,000 people are still left with mild to severe effects.
http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/effects-of-pesticides.html
- How many pounds of pesticides do you think are used annually worldwide?
5 billion.
- FACT: 90% of pesticides never reach the plant. They go to the soil, air, water, or us.
- The production use of pesticides has increased drastically. From 1954 to 2001, India went from spraying 154 million tons of pesticides to how many?
88 Billion
http://theviewspaper.net/five-billion-pounds-of-pesticides/

High Fructose Corn Syrup
- History- started in 1957. Corn has glucose, not fructose. Researches created an enzyme called glucose isomerase (enzyme to alter a group of enzymes). This enzyme rearranged the composition of glucose in corn syrup and made it into fructose. With adding this, it turned a mildly sweet corn syrup into the sweet high fructose corn syrup. The production initially began as a industrial scale in 1970s.
http://www.ehow.com/about_5106547_history-high-fructose-corn-syrup.html

-Fact-HFCS is now in ketchup, canned vegetables and jams. In 2005, Americans consumed a per-person average of 28.4 kg (54.56 lbs) of HFCS each year. This is also what they understand is causing the obesity problem in the US.
http://www.ehow.com/about_5106547_history-high-fructose-corn-syrup.html

-Why? HFCS started because corn growers were beginneing to see competition in the area of margarine and shortening. With the increase in demand for corn to make HFCS the loss in production for margarine and shortening was canceled.
http://www.ehow.com/about_5106547_history-high-fructose-corn-syrup.html

- Fact-Stove Top Stuffing, Capri-Sun Juice Drink, Kellogg's, Eggo®, Lifesavers, Nabisco, Nutri-Grain, Robitussin, Vicks, Cool Whip, Claussen Pickles, Ben & Jerry's, Dreyer's, Kraft Salad Dressing, Miracle Whip Salad Dressing, A1, Bull's Eye, Holy Smoke, Jim Beam, Tuttorosso, Kraft Philadelphia Cream Cheese, Oscar Mayer Lunchables,Campbells Vegatable soup all have HFCS.

Processed Foods Annotations

This is an interesting article that I came across because it talks about GMO ( genetically modified organisms). GMOs are organisms that get pumped in most foods that we eat. I found this article especially important because it talks about two approaches that introduces GMOs into the food we eat, and how are bodies react to them.

"ScienceDirect - Food Control : Quantitative analysis of genetically modified organisms (GMO) in processed food by PCR-based methods." ScienceDirect - Home. Web. 09 Nov. 2009. .

I found this article really interesting because its all about statistics that they give me and how much information they investigated about processed foods.

"USDA Economic Research Service: US Capita Food Supply Trends: More Calories, Refined Carbohydrates, and Fats." USDA ECONOMIC RESEARCH - Home. Pdf. 09 Nov 2009. .

This article talks more about how its not only commercial foods that gets the processed treatment but that it is also the fruits and vegetables that you thought were healthy but are actually added with chemicals and GMOs. This also talks about how we should buy more from organic markets.

"USDA Economic Research Service: Recent Growth Patterns in the U.S. Organic Foods Market." USDA ECONOMIC RESEARCH - Home. Pdf. 09 Nov 2009. .

This talks mainly about the use of GMOs in a widely known food, tomatoes, and tomatoes based products, such as ketchup.

"Carotenoid Content of Thermally Processed Tomato-Based Food Products - Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (ACS Publications)." ACS Publications - Cookie absent. Web. 09 Nov. 2009. .

This article talks heavily on Foreign Direct Investments by the US food processing industry in developed and developing countries. This article, talks more about the marketing of food.
"Determinants Of U.S. Foreign Direct Investments In Food Processing Industry: Evidence From Developed And Developing Countries." Docstoc – Documents, Templates, Forms, Ebooks, Papers & Presentations. Web. 09 Nov. 2009. .