Posted on 04/01/2019 8:26:07 PM PDT by EdnaMode
You've probably heard statistics about how our diet affects the health of the planet. Like how a beef hamburger takes considerably more water and land to produce than a veggie burger or that around a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions stem from food production. In fact, there are websites that can calculate the carbon footprint of specific foods.
But you may not have considered how the food we eat contributes to the quality of the air we breathe.
Air pollution is the largest environmental health risk factor in the United States, and agriculture contributes in a number of ways. Fertilizer application, gas use, pesticide production and dust kicked up from tilling all affect air quality. But the sort of accounting done for the carbon footprint of foods hasn't been done for their air pollution footprint.
That changed Monday with a study published in Nature Sustainability. It modeled how the production of a single crop, corn, contributes to air pollution in the United States. The researchers found that corn production accounts for 4,300 premature deaths related to air pollution every year in the United States. Ammonia from fertilizer application was by far the largest contributor to corn's air pollution footprint.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Not this sh*t again....
What happens to Mexican food without corn? NPR is anti-Hispanic and racist.
“NPR is a Major Contributor to Fake News: Study Finds.”
Crickets the only protein allowed in the future.
Do they want us ALL to starve?
Did they make their conclusions before or after the study?
i heard soylent green is purple. It’s PURPLE!
“NPR: don’t eat meat. Don’t eat corn. Just starve.”
That’s close to — ‘Put corn in your tank and Starve Mexicans’—Which did happen...
Stop using Ethanol now !!!
4,000 deaths
Compare with:
Drug overdoses
Homosexual sex
Rotting garbage in California and Leftie cities
Automobile accidents
Gang violence from illegal immigrants
Failure to immunize children
Corn pollution comes in at the bottom of the list
However corn cobs can be a natural substitute for toilet paper
40% of corn grown goes to ethanol production
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