Taxpayers forced to spend hundreds of millions on more inefficient ethanol
(BigGovernment.news) Despite plenty of evidence that corn-based ethanol is not a very efficient or cheaper fuel alternative to straight gasoline, the federal government is poised to spend hundreds of millions of dollars of your tax money essentially doubling down on its previous bad policy. In 2007 Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed the Read More
Approximately 94% of corn grown in U.S. is coated with bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that neonicotinoid pesticides, a relatively new class of insecticides, negatively affect the immune system of honeybees by helping a viral pathogen propagate. In an effort to find out how neonicotinoid pesticides harm bees, research scientists injected bees with a pathogen known as Read More
