Forward from another list Mary Lynn
Rev. Mary Lynn Schmidt, Ordained Minister ONE SPIRIT ONE HEART TTouch . Reiki . Pet Loss Grief Counseling . Animal Behavior Modification . Shamanic Spiritual Travel . Behavior Problems . Psionic Energy Practitioner . Radionics . Herbs . Dowsing . Nutrition . Homeopathy . Polarity . The Animal Connection Healing Modalities http://members.tripod.com/~MLSchmidt/ http://allcreatureconnections.org >Subject: Re: [n2n4h] BSE >Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 07:27:03 -0500 > >Creekstone Farms, Arkansas, Kansas, exported 40% of its Angus beef to >Japan. Creekstone set up a special lab and hired appropriate experts. The >government is the only legal supplier of the kits for testing BSE & the >government refused to sell the kits to Creekstone. >Info from Raising Less Corn-More Hell by George Pyle. >More from same book: >In beef a four-firm concentration controls 84% of the market: >IBP (Iowa Beef Processors absorbed by Tyson in 2001) controlled 1/3 of the >market all by itself >Swift (spun of on ConAgra in 2002) >Cargill Excel Subsidiary >Farmland National >#5 Smithfield (John Morrell, Cumberland Gap, Smithfield, Cudahy, Ember >Farms) > >Pork with 64% of the market: >Smithfield >Tyson/IBP >Swift >Cargill/Excel > >Chickens with 88% of the market >Tyson >GoldKist >Perdue Farms >Pilgrim's Pride > >Corn: 75% of seed corn & 60% of soy bean >Monsanto >Novartis >Dow Chemical >Du Pont > >Corn Exports with 80% of the market >ADM >Cargill >Zen Noh > >Some names look familiar. _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
