{"content":[{"text":"generate what local residents refer to as “fugitive dust clouds“. The dust clouds come from \n uncovered topsoil, a cornerstone of GMO ﬁeld trials here in Hawaii, since all ground cover is \n removed by chemical application. The dust clouds contain high levels of pesticide residues, \n and go wherever the wind blows, bringing pesticides onto neighboring farms, communities, \n and into watersheds where it inevitably enters drinking water. In addition, when Monsanto \n or another GMO agribusiness leaves an area after farming for many years, this topsoil \n erosion is so bad it may take 20 years to regenerate even in ideal conditions, until which \n time the land is more or less economically unproductive.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.051633,"width":0.794148,"height":0.14027500000000004}},{"text":"The process of monoculture style agriculture itself is nothing less than a war against nature. \n Upon arriving in Hawaii, Dr. Shiva was given a helicopter tour by a local (non-GMO) farmer. \n Looking down on the landscape, it was so clear to see the local farms were integrated into \n the landscape around them, hardly standing out from other landscapes. But the GMO \n “farms” were like an extension of the military barracks, she said. Straight lines, \n obliteration. And it’s the same everywhere that monocultures are grown. According to Dr. \n Shiva, 10% of the formerly fertile agricultural land in the province of Punjab in India are now \n just dead zones. Nothing can grow there without heavy chemical additions of fertilizer \n because the soils have nothing left to give.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.209136,"width":0.7941680000000001,"height":0.15809099999999998}},{"text":"2. Deliberate ineﬃciency built into the GMO food model","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.381889,"width":0.506968,"height":0.016591999999999996}},{"text":"(image from 80/20 vision)","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.443252,"width":0.22085099999999996,"height":0.015554999999999986}},{"text":"Did you know that only 2% of GMO soy is actually eaten by people? Or that most of the corn \n grown in the U.S. is actually not even edible? Or that just 10% of corn ends up being used \n directly in foods, and about half of that is in the form of high fructose corn syrup? The GMO \n industry claims that GMOs are needed to feed the world (look at any of their websites and \n you’ll see this claim as a defense of their agricultural methods). But it’s simply not true. \n Most GMO corn is either processed into gums, pastes, additives, ﬁllers, ethanol or other \n products. According to Shiva, 80% of our actual food comes from small farms, whereas only \n 20% comes from these monocrops that are claimed to be the answer to global hunger. That \n 20% goes to factory farms as animal feed. Beyond the 2% of soy eaten by people, for \n example, the rest is factory farms (~70%) and biofuels (~25%). Normal (boring) economists \n like to look at ROI, but Inspired Economists like to look at EROEI, or Energy Return on Energy \n Invested, as a holistic metric for sustainable economic development.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.488507,"width":0.794162,"height":0.21154299999999993}},{"text":"As for return on the energy put in, according to Shiva, when we grow GE corn and soy and \n feed it to animals before we eat the animals, we go from 100 units to 1 unit. If we just grow \n organically, she said, diverse food on small farms, we go from 100 units to 200, 300, 400…. \n While the Biotech industry claims GMOs are necessary for feeding the world, the plain truth \n is that that is simply a bald faced lie. Whilefood waste in the U.S. amounts to 20 pounds per \n household per month (costing them $2200+ per year), and the completely ineﬃcient \n channeling of our crops through farm animals, one can only logically conclude that the \n deliberate overproduction of GMO corn and soy in the U.S. has only one purpose: more \n money.","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.717278,"width":0.7941400000000001,"height":0.158092}},{"text":"Corn ethanol is another great example. It needs just as much energy put into it as it delivers \n on the other end, so its EROEI is about 1. Basically, to be economically viable, any EROEI has \n to be quite a bit higher than 1, so how does GMO corn survive the free market? (segue to \n | 2","bbox":{"left":0.102926,"top":0.892598,"width":0.825651,"height":0.07593700000000003}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.102926,"top":0.412904,"width":0.017639,"height":0.014254}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.102926,"top":0.412904,"width":0.017639,"height":0.014254}]}