The american food

The United States has the largest cultivable land in the world. The variety of climates has made it possible to diversify crops. American agriculture is highly exporting and scientific.

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Agriculture is a key sector of the US economy, the country being the world's leading exporter and the second largest importer. It is the first agriculture in the world, ex aequo with the European Union.

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It mainly exports corn (256,904,992 tons) and beef (11,736,300 tons).

In spite of its enormous production, American agriculture is experiencing great difficulties: Overproduction, exhaustion of soil, erosion caused by deep plowing.

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Agricultural production is only the center of the immense American agro-industrial complex. Growing agribusiness, which means the integration of agriculture with industries (fertilizers, agricultural equipment ...) and services (banks ...) necessary upstream, but also to industries (packaging, storage ...) and services ( Transport ...) solicited downstream.

Industrial societies often have large areas and control all agricultural production; They produce feed for livestock, own land and slaughterhouses, supply chains of meat, and manage huge feed-lots, the actual factories where cattle are fattened.

US agricultural policy is based on the progress and opportunities opened up by GMOs. Americans are world leaders in this field.

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According to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), 88% of maize and 94% of soybeans grown in the US in 2012 were genetically modified organisms (GMOs)

If the majority of GMOs are not directly used for human consumption, "60 to 70% of industrial food contains GMO derivatives, usually minor ingredients such as corn gluten", foods for Animals subsequently sold to the population.

        Today a crisis of GMOs is being born because feet of genetically modified plants are becoming increasingly expensive and therefore less and less profitable for farmers

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In a very lengthy investigation, the New York Times unveiled the shocking operation of the United States Meat Animal Research Center, a center that has been researching animal husbandry since the 1960s to adapt it to the needs Of the twenty-first century. Officially, it is a question of "increasing the efficiency of production while maintaining a good quality product". In fact, according to the newspaper, the scientific experiments carried out there are aimed at increasing the births of cows, sheep or pigs to benefit the industry. The center also seeks to make meat "easier to chew" and improve traceability.) Another feature is that it is funded directly by the US taxpayer.

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Created by the Congress and supervised by the Ministry of Agriculture, the center enjoys almost total impunity in its experiments that often take place at the expense of animals, according to the survey. This is all the more shocking when one knows that it is the Ministry of Agriculture that is responsible for applying the Animal Welfare Act, which prevents abuse on animals in research laboratories.

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