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  1. Earth

    Gas tanks could guzzle half of U.S. corn yields

    Strong expansion of the U.S. corn-to-ethanol industry, now under way, stands poised to divert much of the grain from food uses to transportation fuel.

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    No mention is made in this article of the huge amount of petrochemical inputs required both for large-scale farming of corn and for the distilling process required to produce ethanol. When these and other environmental costs are factored in, the promotion of corn-based ethanol as fuel will ultimately be exposed as an environmentally disastrous policy. […]

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  3. Plastics ingredient disrupts fetal-egg development

    A common estrogen-mimicking chemical can damage eggs while an animal is still in the womb.