- Total annual U.S. non-export corn production: 602.3 billion pounds
- More than half of that is used as animal feed.
- A piece of corn fed meat has approximately seven times the fat of a piece of grass fed meat.
- Livestock consume 70% of the antibiotics in the United States.
- If you try to grow an acre of corn without government subsidies, you will lose money.
- 1 in 8 New Yorkers has diabetes, though many cases go undiagnosed.
- The corn plant that migrated north from Mexico had a higher protein content than the plant we eat today, which was bred to increase its starch content.
- Four of the top 10 killers in America today are chronic diseases linked to diet: heart disease, stroke, Type 2 diabetes, and cancer.
