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Mans nailed it. USDA, FDA, EPA, they're all funded by large corporations that persuade them to do the wrong thing with money. Corn is horrible, I think it's the USDA or another branch of the federal government that pay farmers to grow it. If the farmers didn't get that payment, they would lose money because corn is so difficult to grow with watering, pesticides and herbicides. There was a documentary a while back where these guys went out and grew an acre of corn, the same methods that the other farmers use, they lost money on it because they didn't qualify for that payment. You might make a little bit if you scale things up and rape the land but without that USDA or government bonus, it wouldn't be worthwhile for those farmers. Corn isn't natural for cows to eat yet that's mostly what they eat in the US, they can't digest it so there's problems with their internal system, then we're fed the nutrient-deprived, hormone injected cows who ate the pesticide and herbicide drowned corn crop. Funny thing is, this is just one example, there's many other crops and poisons out there.

Take the honey bee colony collapse disorder. In other countries they saw hints of a systemic pesticide causing the bees nervous system to be dysfunctional. Same thing that's happening in the US except those countries, the government listened to the people and they banned the pesticide until it was proven to be safe. In the US though, it's the opposite. Use it until it's proven to be harmful. The EPA doesn't do the tests, the chemical manufacturer does and even then, they don't do thorough tests, they just see if it's harmful within a day or two of exposure. There's no research done on built up levels upon generation of generation of bee or what it does to infant bees. Same thing for people. Various pesticides and herbicides have come along since the 1920's or so, that's what, 3-4 human generations have passed? Is it really any wonder why there's increasing numbers of various brain and neurological dysfunction in kids? Things like Autism, ADD and other developmental retardation. These pesticides and herbicides are really closely related and some are even derived from wartime chemicals like Agent Orange. Things like DDT which were sprayed on the city streets and playgrounds until bird populations disappeared and people became infertile.

Is it any wonder?

Then you're contributing to the degrade of AA and your ban will remain in place.

Just because you live next to college towns doesn't mean most of the people you talk to attend or attended college though.

The majority of people I talk with over e-mail aren't attending college BUT most of the people that post on Craigslist do because they're either wanting stuff because they just moved to the area or they are moving and want to sell their stuff. It just expands on how careless the generation is, even when there's fucking spell check in all modern web browsers!

No no no, we have the EPA and FDA allowing toxic substances to be used. We're one of the slowest countries to respond to environmental damage because there's so much bureaucratic crap to go through and so many big companies funding things in the opposite direction. Countries like France get things done because the government isn't as corrupt and the people have the power.

As for education, I live next to 2 college towns yet in all the correspondence I do with people via e-mails and Craigslist, there's appalling examples of a lack of basic English. I know you'll say "well that's on the internet, that doesn't count" but it's the attitude. If they're that lazy with a couple of keystrokes, how the hell do they manage through life every day? That's just my local 100% proof, no speculation example. I believe that nation-wide there's a growing number of kids that don't give a shit.

I split this thread for a juicy conversation. I think the US is going in the shitter for many reasons, just a few:

1. Environmental Damage (pollution from oil and everything derived from oil)
2. Declining Health (from farming and food processing practices)
3. Finances (the Federal Reserve and constant decline of the $)
4. Education (less and less people care about basic education, even English)

Of course, a lot of these problems are world-wide so I can't blame the US for that. I would only move if things in the US got real bad, bad enough to drastically affect my way of life. Right now the economy and education stuff doesn't really affect me. I don't have much money and I've not been to college but those things don't really degrade my happiness and quality of life. Anyway, I have no hope for humanity, I just live the way I think is best for me and my surroundings, that's really all anybody can do.

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i saw ur pic on msn ur fat who havent got a life . hope for u to get a life man

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I can tell you're really fishing for insults. Funny thing is, you don't know anything about me yet you're trying to insult me. That doesn't really work out good, you know? Skrewy trolls me much harder than you ever have and I'm not phased by it.

I know one thing about you; you're a kid with a big mouth and now you're talking about dick. You would have picked up a handsome paycheck on Crunk's street corner. Know what I mean?