References

The following links are numbered references taken from the Master Reference List and archived blog comments from "America's Failed Food System" (pdf download)

HEALTH

¹ PRESS RELEASE - PEW COMMISSON ON FARM ANIMALS

¹³ E-mail from Dr. Walter Willett Harvard University
Dr Willett heads the largest epidemiology and nutrition department in the world.
e-mail to DRK Spring 09:
“Don - you will find common ground among nutritionists on the harmful effects of very cheap and large amounts of starch from subsidized corn in the US diet, which is the substrate for high fructose corn syrup, and very cheap sugary beverages and feedlot pork and red meat. While not the only contributors these are fueling our epidemics of obesity and diabetes.”
RELATED FOX NEWS STORY

¹⁶ DAILY RED MEAT RAISES CHANCES OF EARLY DEATH
Study by The National Cancer Institute - Washington Post 3/24/09

¹⁷ THE FAT OF THE LAND - AN OPINION ON CHILDHOOD OBESITY
Wall Street Journal 8/1/09

²⁰ UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER OMEGA 6/OMEGA3 SUMMARY (pdf download)
Wall Street Journal 8/1/09

²² THE REAL COST OF CHEAP FOOD - TIME MAGAZINE COVER

¹⁴ THE END OF OVEREATING - DAVID KESSLER FORMER HEAD OF FDA - THE REAL STORY BEHIND PROCESSED FOOD
TAPE (enter "Kessler" in the video search area)
INTERVIEW

⁸ OMNIVORE’S DILEMMA - BY MICHAEL POLLAN
THE FAILURE OF OUR CORN BASED FOOD SYSTEM

² KING CORN
Corn fed vs. Grass fed Beef
Dr. Loren Cordain - Corn fed beef has more than seven times more saturated fat 10 vs 1.3 grams than grass fed beef- minute 40 to 51=11 min.
Interviews with Magregor, Bledso, Sue Jarrett, Trinkle ISU, Loren CordainUC

High Fructose Corn Syrup
Dr. Walter Willett - One coke per day doubles your risk of diabetes-
5:20 Interviewswith Erickson, Cordain, Willett, Nurses, Willett. cab driver, M.Pollan summary 9:25=14 minutes

WATER QUALITY

³¹ A PBS taped update to the original report of President Clintons National Science & Technology Committee on Hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico as a direct result of subsidizing corn to ethanol

³² WATER QUALITY IN THE CHOPTANK BASIN (pdf download)
by Dr. Tom Fisher

³³ USGS CIRCULAR 1228
See page 6 for sources of Delmarva nitrogen pollution, 56% from commercial fertilizer, 35% from CAFO manure

⁴³ CHOPTANK 5-DECADE NITRATE RECORD VS. FERTILIZER APPLICATION (pdf download)
Major milestones. Based on UMCES and USGS data

⁴² PBS DOCUMENTARY - POISONED WATER

SOIL

⁵⁰ THE MYTH OF NITROGEN FERTILIZATION FOR CARBON SEQUESTRATION-BY S.A. KAHN (pdf download)
11 of 12 Corn Belt states losing soil carbon despite widespread use of modern tillage equipment for many years

⁵² A 50-YEAR FARM BILL- NY TIMES REPORT, JUNE 08
Midwestern soil disaster by Wes Jackson and Wendell Berry

⁵³ RODALE INSTITUTE SOIL PHOTOS (pdf download)
2 crop chemical vs. 3 crop organic after 15 years

GREENHOUSE GAS

¹ PEW COMMISSION PRESS RELEASE

⁶⁰ THE MEAT OF THE PROBLEM by EZRA KLEIN

PATHOGENS

²¹ FARMACOLOGY, AN ARTICLE IN JOHNS HOPKINS MAGAZINE

³ KANSAS STATE RESEARCH ON THE CONNECTION BETWEEN DISTILLER'S GRAIN ON ETHANOL BYPRODUCT AND INCREASED E.COLI IN CATTLE FEED (pdf download)

²³ YOUNG DANCER WHO WILL NEVER WALK AGAIN, NY TIMES 10/04/09
Her family stricken by e. coli from eating Cargill Chefs Select Angus Hamburger

CORN ETHANOL

⁷¹ THE GREAT ETHANOL SCAM
BusinessWeek Magazine

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