Our Footprint
This image is from Google Maps. It is a remarkable example of how we can see the effect of humans on the planet. Most of this farmland is used to grow corn and soybeans. Corn is used, among other things, to feed cattle and pigs for slaughter on massive feedlots and to make high fructose corn syrup. Soybeans are used for many applications, good and bad.Every acre of that land is cultivated with tractors that burn oil. It is sprayed with herbicides and pesticides made from oil. The crops harvested from these fields are transported to market by trucks that are made from oil, that run on oil, on roads made from oil. The food "products" created from these crops are made in factories that run on coal and oil, are packaged with products made from oil, and are delivered to supermarkets by trucks made from oil, that run on oil, on roads made from oil. All so people can have Twinkies and Whoppers. Mmmmmmmm!!!!
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