here is another way to process corn and soy for human consumption: feed it to animals. As a nineteenth-century observer wrote, “The hog eats the corn, and Europe eats the hog. Corn thus becomes incarnate; for what is a hog but fifteen or twenty bushels of corn on four legs?” Research shows that one of the biggest sources of linoleic acid in the American diet is chicken. Iowans have one way of saying this: they lament that their state has been “chickenized.” You could more specifically say it has been “Tysonized.” Tyson Foods prefers to describe the process as…

Table of Contents PREAMBLE  PART ONE: GENERAL PART Chapter One: Objectives Chapter Two: General Definitions  PART TWO: TRADE IN GOODS Chapter Three: National Treatment and Market Access for Goods Annex 300-A: Trade and Investment in the Automotive Sector Annex 300-B: Textile and Apparel Goods Chapter Four: Rules of Origin Annex 401: Specific Rules of Origin Chapter Five: Customs Procedures Chapter Six: Energy and Basic Petrochemicals Chapter Seven: Agriculture and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures Chapter Eight: Emergency Action  PART THREE: TECHNICAL BARRIERS TO TRADE Chapter Nine: Standards-Related Measures  PART FOUR: GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT Chapter Ten: Government Procurement  PART FIVE: INVESTMENT, SERVICES AND RELATED MATTERS Chapter Eleven: Investment Chapter Twelve: Cross-Border Trade in…

Dénommé N.A.F.T.A. en anglais (North American Free Trade Agreement) et T.L.C.A.N. en espagnol (Tratado de libre comercio de América del Norte), cet accord définit une zone de libre-échange de quelque 450 millions d'habitants formée par les États-Unis, le Canadaet le Mexique. Signé par les présidents de ces trois pays, George Bush, Brian Mulroney et Carlos Salinas de Gortari le 7 octobre 1992 à San Antonio (Texas), le traité, qui est entré en vigueur le 1er janvier 1994, se…

Chuck Hagel cofounded Vanguard Cellular Systems, is a former Republican U.S. senator from Nebraska, and served as U.S. secretary of defense under President Barack Obama. s Synopsis Chuck Hagel was born on October 4, 1946, in North Platte, Nebraska. From 1971 to 1977 he worked for Representative John McCollister and in 1981 was appointed deputy administrator of the Veterans Administration. In the mid-1980s, he cofounded Vanguard Cellular Systems. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996 and re-elected in 2002, retiring in 2008. In January of 2013, he was nominated as secretary of defense by President Barack Obama and…

The National Security Agency (NSA) is an intelligence organization of the United States government, responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes – a discipline known as signals intelligence (SIGINT). NSA is concurrently charged with protection of U.S. government communications and information systems against penetration and network warfare.[8][9] Although many of NSA's programs rely on "passive" electronic collection, the agency is authorized to accomplish its mission through active clandestine means,[10]among which are physically bugging electronic systems[11] and allegedly engaging in sabotage through subversive software.[12][13] Moreover, NSA maintains physical presence in a large number of countries across the globe, where its Special Collection Service (SCS) inserts eavesdropping devices in difficult-to-reach places. SCS collection…