On this weeks show while the Mainstream Media distracts us with wall to wall impeachment coverage neo cons are beating the war drum for regime change in iran r t has sources in the region meanwhile kim jong un threatens President Trump with what he calls Christmas Present but 1st a bombshell report about the war in afghanistan that one ups the pentagon papers and documents how we have been lied to for 8 teen years holland cook in washington this is the big picture on our to america. Since last weeks show we have been to jesting that meticulously detailed and mighty disturbing report from the Washington Post the afghanistan papers at war. With the truth this week 2 perspectives from players who were in the pentagon and in theater Michael Maloof worked for the secretary of defense as the u. S. A. s longest war was unfolding and matthew hoh is a former u. S. Marine he later resigned from the government over the escalation of the war in afghanistan his work now includes peer support for Me
Annual harvest of plant material in all its forms that is a massive number thats impossible to reach plus we talked about earlier corn if im remembering correctly is not exactly good to the topsoil if youre over producing core you know and we already are over farming for industrial far you know were going at things like that but tab of the big question is is it illuminates the audience of why is corde so bad i mean i love corn look im im all for it biofuel alternative unfortunately biofuels like this and which you can use any you that shop owner whatever you can do you say no soybean is another one but again these are things that keep getting subsidized by the u. S. Government and subsidized and subsidized now senators congressmen love that because they go to washington these bring these big subsidies and you have situations to the point that were paying farmers to not grow things so that the prices remain a certain so that the corn market says so according to the c. E. O. Biofuel prod
That it makes corn more expensive because we dont really grow corn for food the majority of the eighty million acres of corn fields in the u. S. Are made to feed livestock say so when the prices for a fee goes you have the meat corporations and these industrial farming corporations are hormel zz and tyson and perdue are going to ultimately have to going to pick up somebody is going to have to pay for that increase in corn for in the corn prices are commodities because theyre going into biofuel so then you look at the fact that theyre just its not a very green alternative to gasoline so because of the use of water and fertilizer so. Its a lot of people say its just about equal to gasoline as far as Greenhouse Gas well really look at it there was a two thousand and eleven study from Tepper School of business at Carnegie Mellon university and what they found was that using. Based ethanol resulted in a. Twenty percent greater greater Greenhouse Gas emissions than gasoline and thats simply
On this weeks after Words Program Ellen Silbergeld talks about that new form farming efforts affect consumers. Ellen is a pleasure to have you here. Here i am this port city boy who became secretary of agriculture which is one of the greater jobs ive ever had as congressman beforehand but before we talk about your book which is my father and Atticus Finch i thought maybe you might talk about yourself. How did you get into this whole area of agriculture especially the industrialization of agriculture as you call it . Guest at something of a story that begins with the Chesapeake Bay and this was this mysterious eruption of a toxic organism in the water that is some kind of a narrow toxin causing fish to die and a lot of reported illness and fishermen. It was never really figured out that one of the stimulating factors that was described was the amount of inputs from poultry waste that went into the water. That was kind of the first thing but the main thing that got me into this was going
Endangers workers, animals and consumers, i thought you might talk a little bit about yourself. How do you get into this whole area of analyzing agriculture, especially the industrialization of agriculture as you call it . Well, its something of a story. It begins with syria and the Chesapeake Bay and this was this mysterious irruption of a toxic organism in the water that produced some kind of a neurotoxin that caused millions of fishto die and a lot of reported illness in fishermen. They never really figured it out but one of the stimulating factors that was described was the amount of inputs of nutrients poultry waste that went into the water so that was kind of the first thing but the main thing that got me into this was going to a lecture and listening to the speaker talk about food borne infections and how these were really big problems and he said it was particularly a problem because many of them were drugresistant and i knew nothing about the subject. So Infectious Diseases li