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  • All 'Tobacco" is not the same...

    As a grower of Cigar Broadleaf in good ol' 'Kantuck', let me clarify a few things for you. a. Not all tobacco emits the 600+ chemicals found in cigarette tobacco and it's wrapper. b. Cigar tobacco is pretty much a completely organic crop when done correctly. c. The anti-smoking league has made the subtle, but irresponsible leap from ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by KentuckyThunder on March 18, 2009

  • Corn can produce diesel

    Although corn is normally converted to sugars and then fermented to make ethanol, it can also be gasified to produce syngas, which then is converted to synthetic fuels. These synthetic fuels include diesel.The standard gasification process that is still used today was developed in Germany in 1913, improved upon in the 1920's by Franz Fischer ...
    Posted to Green Room by regrouping on November 14, 2008

  • Organic Pollution? Nonsense

    This is just public relations scare tactics, directly from the conventional growers' lobby. Note that every ''fact'' claimed somewhere in the article is denied elsewhere.
    Posted to Green Room by ari green on September 10, 2008

  • vegans are just ethically consistent vegetarians

    Vegans are ''intense,'' huh? Sounds too me like you haven't applied your own advice to meat-eaters - to view you as being a normal person who happens to eat things without eyes - to vegans. I was a vegetarian for a whole year until I realized that my reasons for going vegetarian (I wanted to stop causing suffering and death to animals; I ...
    Posted to Food by jenhowell77 on May 8, 2008