Corn Hair..

aima123 · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 2:18 am Post subject: Corn Hair..

I've heard from TV news about the significant of "Corn Hair". It was experimented by our young science students in one of the prestigious science high school in the philippines, that the hair of a corn can be converted to a fabric. Does anyone here knows about it?

reviewer · Mayor's Aide Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Posts: 145

An interesting topic (especially for me in the Midwest). I found an interesting article, check it out and let me know what you think:

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=2328

aima123 · Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 6:28 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the article. It is just proven how significant corn is. Beside of its uses it is also environmentally free.

reviewer · Mayor's Aide Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Posts: 145

Well, I wouldn't say it's environmentally "free". I live in the corn belt - we're talking about massive habitat loss for prairie species and rampant pesticide use.

aima123 · Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 7:35 pm Post subject:

Anyway farmers have their different way in culturing their plants. In our place corn plantations doesn't need much pesticides and they don't even spray it. They just cleaned the environment were the corn planted. So I could say that it would be environmentally free.

reviewer · Mayor's Aide Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Posts: 145

Well, wiping out native habitats to plant corn is still not environmentally free. You have to consider the effect on water tables and habitat loss.