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Skeptics who ridicule fears over pesticide exposure are mum on the question of environmental degradation. Pesticides sprayed over sprawling corn fields in the Midwest do not magically disappear. Neither do nitrates from chemical fertilizers. They linger in the soil, and then seep into the water supply. Costs of treating water for just these byproducts are estimated at $300 million annually. And it is the consumer, not the farmer, who picks up the tab through higher water bills...
...fold increase in pesticide use since 1945 has not yielded a commensurate increase in food production. Rather, chemical advances have lowered present costs for farmers and saddled society with a burdensome environmental debt. Much of U.S. agriculture could be done organically at the same levels of output. Organic corn and soybean yields per acre in Iowa, according to Duffy, are even greater than conventional ones...
Appointed to fill out a Senate term because the state bosses think he's naive and malleable, Jefferson Smith eventually stages a one-man filibuster to get his message out beyond the corrupt lawmakers and to the electorate. Capra-corn was never so spicy or savory as in this angry, impassioned political weepie. James Stewart, below, expertly plays every emotional key, from innocence to hysteria to exhaustion...
...prior to 2001, the total worldwide investment in agriculture?including machinery, land improvements and livestock?increased from $1.5 trillion to more than $2.1 trillion, according to the United Nations. Different types of foods are being grown, as basic crops have given way to speciality produce. Instead of growing sweet corn for sale by the ear in the marketplace, for example, farmers are harvesting and selling white corn for the production of tortilla chips...
...years. But he's not waiting for the feds to hand out grants; he's investing in promising startups like Amyris Biotechnologies in Emeryville, Calif., which is bioengineering microbes that produce alternative fuels, and teaming up with Bill Gates and Sir Richard Branson to build ethanol refineries. Instead of corn, their "cellulosic" ethanol will come from non-edible plant matter like grasses, algae, wood chips and rice hulls. Biofuels, an area Khosla is betting heavily on, is expected to be a $52 billion market by 2015, up from $15 billion today. In another project, Khosla and former President Bill Clinton...