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On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 03:08:08 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Tuesday, September 10, 2019 at 7:17:25 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 02:50:15 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >On Monday, September 9, 2019 at 1:12:32 AM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>> >> On Mon, 09 Sep 2019 11:37:42 +0700, Jeßus > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >On Mon, 09 Sep 2019 14:22:27 +1000, Bruce >
>> >> >wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >>On Sun, 8 Sep 2019 20:27:29 -0700 (PDT), "
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>>On Sunday, September 8, 2019 at 8:45:46 PM UTC-5, Jeßus wrote:
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> On Sun, 08 Sep 2019 00:32:12 -0700, Leonard Blaisdell
>> >> >>>> > wrote:
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> >I'm bored. My wife and SIL are gone to a class reunion. Check out this
>> >> >>>> >picture of sweet corn muffins that I made today. There's not much color
>> >> >>>> >to them.
>> >> >>>> ><https://www.dropbox.com/s/9qf3djfdi4tlezy/corn%20muffins.jpg?dl=0>
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> I'd like to try those. Never had corn muffins before.
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>They're rather 'blonde' looking but you don't know what you're missing by
>> >> >>>having never eaten corn muffins.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>Americans and their corn are like Asians and their soy beans.
>> >> >>
>> >> >><room reserved for Jebus>
>> >> >
>> >> >Yes, true in the sense it's overused thanks to lobbyists and
>> >> >manufacturers in the U.S. But that's not to say corn is of itself bad
>> >> >in moderation.
>> >>
>> >> No, I don't think so either, although it's probably always GM in the
>> >> US.
>> >
>> >No, of course it isn't. Much of the sweet corn grown directly for the
>> >table is non-GMO. Some dent corn is non-GMO so that some people can have
>> >their fish tacos GMO-free.

>>
>> "Currently, up to 92% of U.S. corn is genetically engineered (GE), as
>> are 94% of soybeans and 94% of cotton [1] (cottonseed oil is often
>> used in food products). It has been estimated that upwards of 75% of
>> processed foods on supermarket shelves €“ from soda to soup, crackers
>> to condiments €“ contain genetically engineered ingredients."
>> <https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/issues/311/ge-foods/about-ge-foods>
>>
>> There goes your biodiversity. Everything becomes the same. In the
>> future, all Americans will look and talk like Gary. You'll all have
>> freshly painted houses full of ferrets!

>
>Eight percent of the corn grown in the U.S. is still a helluva lot of
>corn. 8% of 366.6 million metric tons is close to 30 million metric
>tons.


Most of your corn is GM, which was my point.