An interesting note about what we are feeding to our beef and dairy cattle and poultry.
HebrewMan
Hello,
My name is Dale Baney. I am a cattle-producer from Indiana, near
South Bend. We raise beef cattle, and have for fifteen years. While
reading material on the internet in the last month I have learned that
straight vegetable oil can be used as a many ways superior-quality fuel
over petroleum diesel!
In my researching vegetable oils and the process involved in their
'creation' or processing, I learned that 95 percent of all
vegetable oils in the US are created using the very reactive
neuro-toxins Hexane and Methyl-Chloride that solve tight budget desires
for consumer to get cheap food.
The neurotoxin Hexane is said to be the most adversely effecting toxin
of all of the toxic solvents, and Methylene Chloride is also a chemical
that damages the immune systems, & causes birth defects of animals who
eat it. The occupational exposure limit for inhalation of Hexane has
been set by OSHA at 50 ppm (TWghAvg 8 -10 hours). How much Hexane &
Methylene Chloride remain in the oils and the high fiber meals produced
using Hexane and Methylene Chloride as the solvents?
One company selling Hexane-Free soybean oil says that a trace quantity
of Hexane remains in the meals and the oils processed with Hexane. That
website named the concentration number as "a 0.5% Hexane
concentration" in meal.
http://www.alaffia.com/ingredients/oil_extraction.php
The EPA has published the following document on the internet that
reveals what the average concentration found for Hexane in various
stages of production of the meal, though which stage is the stage for
production of high fiber, high protein meals for human consumption, and
which stage and which plant & location produce for high-protein animal
foods is not stated:
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/ap42/ch09/bgdocs/b9s11-1.pdf
This official report reveals the average Hexane content of the meals in
that study to be: (0.152) gallons, or about 1.14 pounds of Hexane
remains per ton of food meal after the Hexane has been removed by the
'desolventizing toaster' process; (0.119) gallons, or about 0.9
pounds of Hexane remains per ton of food meal after the Hexane has been
removed by the 'dryer' processing; (0.097) gallons, or about 0.75
pounds of Hexane remains per ton of food meal after the Hexane is
removed by the 'cooler' processing. Rounding to one pound per ton,
ballpark of the known numbers, A million pounds is 500 times 2000lbs.
That means that the admitted average weight of Hexane per ton of meal
is approximately 500 pounds of Hexane per million pounds of processed
meal, or simply put: 500 parts per million!
I have searched for and pored over more than two thousand websites
looking for some statements by someone who knows what the levels of
Hexane and Methylene Chloride in cattle food and food for human
consumption are and should be. I desire to learn what the concentration
is of these neurological toxins that cause heart damage and brain
damage, impotence (MSDS for Hexane) and reproductive system damage,
loss of fur(hair) and irritability, that remain in the foods that I am
feeding to my animals and eventually eating myself after the animal has
effectively concentrated those toxins in his body for up to ten years
or more, or who I drink the milk of that has not been allowed to have
the Hexane and Methylene Chloride evaporated off from.
That first level of Hexane reduction is where it is cost effective to
pelletize the Hexane processed meal and sell it as cattle food. I
believed that there must be a mistake somewhere, because at that 0.5
percent Hexane level claimed by the machinery maker and the Hexane-free
vegetable oil producer, with my simple calculations and math(one half
of one percent is equal to one-half pound Hexane for every 100 pounds
of feed), that seemingly small percentage amounts to approximately 5000
ppm Hexane toxin in the meal, a level that is one hundred, and ten,
times higher than the OSHA permissible levels for incidental and
temporary exposures to Hexane by inhalation for the lengths of time of
50ppm for 8-10 hours, and 500ppm for up to fifteen minutes.
Contact is contact, and contact internally is also contact, so the
contact the Hexane and Methylene Chloride make with the parts of the
stomach and intestines, is contact in that part of the body that is
configured to dissolve, digest and deliver to the rest of the body,
brain, heart, lungs and reproductive system, whatever is placed in it,
should be at least as low as the 50 parts per million inhalation level,
because it must be that the Hexane enters the blood supply. But the
lower 50 parts per million occupational exposure limit time frame is
only for 8 or 10 hours without reprieve, and the time that the contact
with the toxin Hexane and the dioxin Methylene Chloride contact occurs
intestinally is far longer than 8 or 10 hours without reprieve, for it
usually takes 36 hours for food to pass through a body, more or less.
Hexane is strongly attached to the vegetable's protein as the
vegetable oil is extracted, and Hexane's attachment to the protein is
what effects the extraction of the oil from the meal. Hexane attaches
itself to a protein and it does not let go of that grip on protein
unless it is induced to do so, either by temperature causing its grip
to lessen or by another solvent or acid that will effect that
fracturing of the bonding. The stomach's acids are the catalyst to
effect that separation, loosening the Hexane and allowing it to be
carried into the person's bloodstream, where it then does those
things that Hexane does to a person normally by possibly attaching
itself to another protein cell of the animal's body.
I have recently learned that there is a problem with dairy cattle
'breeding back', or getting pregnant again, after they have
produced milk heavily. One of the known effects of Hexane and Methylene
Chloride that both share is to cause reproductive system damage and
problems in both male and female animals, Hexane causes impotence in
men(MSDS for Hexane). Another effect associated with Hexane is fur
loss. Our cattle were only fed the meal in the winter and were losing
their fur, mid-winter through the springtime, in patches. The
summertime being the time when the fur always grew back and the
livestock then look healthier, while eating the green grass. Known
effects of Hexane in people is listlessness, fatigue, confusion, and
irritability. All characteristics I recall seeing in my cattle,
particularly in the winter. Another effect of Hexane and Methylene
Chloride is the damage it is known to do to fetuses in the womb. Last
year we had two out of eight calves die, one who was born blind, visual
maladies are a known effect of Hexane(MSDS for Hexane). Of the calves
born and that lived, one has underdeveloped hind legs and walks with an
odd gait, and stiff rear legs, a cripple. Rear end underdevelopment is
also a noted effect of Hexane. It was noted in research of the effects
of Hexane on rats in uterus.(I have wondered if the time at which these
toxins were administered to the calves while in uterus is the reason
that some of my calves are born perfectly healthy. Gestation is nine
months long, and the toxic effects could change depending on what stage
of development the calf is in when the toxins are ingested by the
mother. Some calves may be free of high levels of their mother's
ingestion of Hexane if they are conceived and develop during the time
of year when we are not feeding the cows the protein supplement.)
I spoke to an Amish dairy man by the name of Leon K. about my own
theory of Hexane residues being the cause for these maladies; causing
dairy livestock to have trouble re-breeding, and that the Hexane and
Methylene Chloride effectively concentrated in the animal's meats
being the cause for the men of America's need for Rogaine because
their fur is falling off, the need for Viagra because they can no
longer get it skyward, and is the cause for Road Rage from
irritability, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Parkinson's
disease, Alzheimer's disease, Mad Cow Disease and Scrapie, etcetera.
He said in reply that he had bought some soy meal once from ADM,
NEVER AGAIN!- he said. He had fed the meal to a group of sows and when
only three of them had gotten pregnant, he said that he will never feed
the meal again.
I asked the man at feed center here in Wyatt, where I was buying our
cattle food, what the level of Hexane his protein supplement carried on
it, and the answer was: People get hung up on how much toxins are in
the food... but he answered my question by not answering the question.
A sample of the meal pellets I have taken to a local laboratory to have
them analyzed for concentration of the toxin Hexane, although I now
know that the official EPA measurement for that toxin is from reading
that document noted above. Hexane's confessed average concentration
after the toaster processing stage": (0.152) gallons, or about 1.14
pounds of Hexane per ton of food meal after the 'desolventizing
toaster' process".
That average, though lower than claimed by the machinery maker of oil
processing equipment, (0.5%) and the same amount (0.5%), claimed by a
producer of Hexane free soybean oils, (~507 part per million) is about
at the OSHA limit set for temporary and incidental occupational
exposure (500 part per million) for a maximum of fifteen minutes
exposure. (MSDS for Hexane)
Then in my study I searched for articles relating to my query, that is,
how much Hexane is in the food that we feed to the cattle and allow
those cattle to concentrate that toxin that they carry until we
eventually eat the meat of that livestock, I finally found your Federal
study. I was reading it, and discovered that in your laboratory, when
checking for various toxins, the same toxic solvents that I want to
learn the concentration of, are the same neuro-logical toxins that were
used as the solvent-mixture in the lab, the toxins Hexane and Methylene
Chloride.
The toxic solvent Hexane's stated effects have been recorded by many
over the years and have the well-known fingerprint of solvent symptoms
affecting the neorology, that I have seen in my cattle when feeding
them that meal that is the leftover of vegetable oil processing using
Hexane and Methylene Chloride. The tell-tale symptoms that those cattle
display in their activities and manner after eating Hexane-laced high
protein meals resembles the maladies of BSE and TSE. These toxins,
Hexane and Methylene Chloride, fed to cattle, cause scrapie and mad cow
disease. My simple mind sees the connection.
Spongiform Encephalopathy is brain damage caused by what an animal is
fed, Hexane is known to cause brain damage(MSDS for Hexane), and Hexane
is fed to cattle in serious quantities. To discover what does cause
scrapie and mad cow disease, and what does not cause the malady, one
could look to the only two countries in the world that do not have any
scrapie or mad cow disease: New Zealand and Australia, and look at what
they feed to their cattle. New Zealand and Australian cattle and
livestock are normally only fed grass and grass hay, and not grain or
high-protein supplements. The connection is so straightforward that it
would take a great deal of effort to explain it in a simpler way.
The source(Hexane and Methylene Chloride remaining from vegetable oil
solvent processing) I have noted, the results(locally in my own cattle,
and in the dairy industry) I have noted. Is there any way for a person
to govern how much Hexane and Methylene Chloride he eats? Is there a
way other than growing his own grass hay to feed his own cattle? A
little amount of toxin in food is good and acceptable, but a food
concentration for Hexane that is over one hundred times the
occupational limit for incidental and occasional contact(>5000 part per
million [or even 500 part per million]) in food meal compared to <50
part per million 8-10 hour TimeWeighedAverage limit for the worker) is
not acceptable in my food.
Can I do a test for Hexane concentration in the food that I eat? Andy
from the laboratory locally said that he also normally uses Hexane as a
solvent for doing mass spectography and for many other tests, but it is
possible, and he is doing a Volatile Organic Content concentration test
for Hexane on the meal that I have supplied to him, without using
Hexane as the solvent.
This study was named:
The "Study to Evaluate the Levels of Dioxin-Like Compounds in Dairy
Feeds in the United States"
by: Matthew Lorber, Joseph Ferrario, Christian Byrne, Christopher
Greene, Ann Cyrus
that was filed as: "ORGANOHALOGEN COMPOUNDS - Volume 66 (2004)"
1958 Introduction
The primary route for general population exposure to dioxin-like
compounds is through the consumption of animal fats, with
bovine-derived meat, milk and dairy products comprising over 50% of
total exposure in the United States1. The primary route of exposure
hypothesized for cattle is airborne deposition of dioxins onto the
leaves of feed crops. Over the last few years additional pathways of
exposure have been identified associated with contaminated feed
additives such as ball clay, mineral supplements, and animal
byproducts.
(my emphasis's)
This study points to different notices of some dioxins in and on grass
feeds, meal pellets, and the alfalfas etcetera and is an honest for
sure. Very difficult for a three year old like me to follow. But the
following are the laboratory procedures used:
The samples were extracted with 75/25 Hexane/Methylene Chloride in a
soxhlet for 24 hours. All 12 of the WHO dioxin-like coplanar PCBs were
evaluated in this project for most of the samples; a small subset only
measured 7 coplanar PCBs. Limits of detection(LOD) for dioxins and
furans (CDD/Fs) ranged from 0.01 pg/g for the lower chlorinated
congeners to 0.20 pg/g for OCDD, and ...
If the tests for contamination of foods for cattle were redone using
another method, other than with the dioxin Methylene Chloride/toxin
Hexane solvent extraction method, while looking for and measuring the
concentrations of those two solvents used in the oil extraction
industry, there could be a true measurement of the concentration of the
most toxic of all petroleum distillates, Hexane and a measurement of
the deadly dioxin Methylene Chloride in the animal foods that are
destined ultimately for human consumption.
I have just begun to study Methylene Chloride, could the food meals
also be checked for the concentration of Methylene Chloride, because,
who knows, maybe its use as the solvent in lab. unwittingly masks a
high Methylene Chloride concentration that is in the animal protein
pellets that are the offal of vegetable oil processing that often uses
both Hexane and Methylene Chloride.
Can I test meat, milk, and cheese for their Vol. Org. Con.
concentrations for these two particular toxins, Hexane and Methylene
Chloride? Meat and milk have high concentrations of these toxins, why?
Methylene Chloride is also used in the processing of foods destined for
livestock as Hexane is. I Think that eggs may inadvertently have high
concentrations of these two toxins in them also, and the meat of birds
may have unacceptably high concentrations. As a youth I worked at an
egg producing farm, and chickens are fed that same 'high protein'
meal.
Thank you for taking the time to read and listen to my questions. I
earnestly await your reply. As I intend to discover the answers to my
questions and I think that people are the key to discovering the answer
to any problem and any question, I am going to employ the newspapers
of this area and Chicago and New York and some in California as well as
the media in Australia, and England and other English speaking
countries worldwide. The translation of this letter is also in process
to share this question with the non-English speaking leaders in the
world. I have sent a copy of this letter to various Newspapers and
Libraries and Congressmen and Senators also, by email, and by postage,
and face to face I hand this letter to people who I meet.
Also I intend to provide this questioning letter to anyone who is
willing to help me to discover how much Hexane, and now Methylene
Chloride, is in cattle feed and human food. If my lab results come back
as none detected, (it did) how do my local laboratory's first ever
attempt to detect Hexane in cattle food compare with the average
concentration of Hexane in the meals, as measured by the EPA?-- That
meal contains ~507 ppm(507ppm is detected by the EPA.
Because 95% of all meal processing is Hexane- Methylene Chloride based,
and processing meal other than with Hexane-Methylene Chloride is more
expensive and produces a meal more valuable for resale, could a person
make me think that some cold-pressed meal accidentally was sold to me
at the mill, and that is what meal I have taken to the lab for
measurement? The cold-pressed meals are a much more nutritious
supplement, as more oil remains in that meal, but they require more
care and could never be used in the existing methods for meal delivery
and storage. The meal processed by cold rolling contains more residual
oil in the meal -more nutritional for the animals- but cold-rolled
meal goes rank after some time, while the solvent-extracted meals store
indefinitely)- my sample was solvent extracted, and so it has at least
the average Hexane concentration as found by the EPA.
Perhaps an answer could be posed that the Hexane escapes by evaporation
into the open air. It seems that open air evaporation would work well
for evaporating off the toxin Hexane from the grain meal, if enough
time and temperature could be supplied, but what would I do if an open
air hexane evaporation processing plant was built in my back yard? The
toxin Hexane is a reportable toxin and any corporation who releases
more than one pound per year must report that release to the
government. Since the meals are transported and stored in closed
containers from the time of their processing until placed into
watertight plastic bags for transportation to the feeding site by most
farmers, there is no time or place for the hexane to evaporate after
its processing. Should our Dairy farmers report the release of the
known concentrations and weights of the Hexane that they feed to their
animals? How many tons of meal do 3500 cows eat in a year? If
high-producing dairy cattle eat ten pounds of feed a day and half of
that is this meal, 3500 cattle would eat 6,387,500 pounds of meal in a
years time. How much of the toxin Hexane is fed to those 3500 cows
every year? In a year, at a very conservative estimation(@ Hexane
concentration of .01%)-EPA admitted average found is approx .04%-, that
farm would pollute the environment with 638 pounds of Hexane. ( a
liberal calculation would be ten times that amount 6,387 pounds (@
hexane concentration of .1%) Should the release of hexane fed to cattle
be regulated?
But what should the level of Hexane be in my food? Is 50ppm Hexane ok
to eat occasionally? What about 500ppm Hexane regularly? The EPA has
measured Hexane content in the meals, the Hexane can be measured. Could
we measure for it in meats and in cheese and in milk and in eggs that
we eat? What is the amount of Hexane in my food?
To anyone who wishes to do so, I grant permission to publish this
letter or any part of it, without any restrictions, This is a free
letter, I encourage the forwarding of this letter.
Earnestly yours,
Dale Baney
bane...@skyenet.net
p.s. In reading the MSDS for Hexane, there was a discrepancy noted in
the speech used there, when noting the effects of various methods of
exposure to Hexane.
The material safety data sheet for Hexane says that there are certain
adverse effects for inhalation in the short-term, and for the long
term. The effects, long-term, of Hexane inhalation are noted as: "the
same as for short-term exposure", plus more adverse effects,
including impotence. The sheet says that for skin-contact, the effects
of Hexane exposure in the short-term are certain adverse effects, and
the long-term exposure effects of Hexane by skin-contact are: "the
same as for short-term exposure". The MSDS sheet then lists the
adverse effects that come from ingestion exposure to Hexane over the
short-term, and for long-term ingestion exposure to Hexane the MSDS
sheet oddly does not keep to form and say that the effects of Hexane
exposure through ingestion are the same as for short-term exposure. The
MSDS sheet boldly says that "no information on adverse effects",
for long-term ingestion exposure to Hexane.(Though the short-term
effects were noted)
If a person drinks Hexane for lunch on Monday, and suffers those
adverse effect( nausea, vomiting, headache, symptoms of drunkenness,
brain damage) ,that the MSDS notes in the short-term exposure, and
drinks that Hexane lunch every Monday for the rest of his life, should
the MSDS sheet not say that the long term effects for Hexane exposure
by ingestion are the same as noted for the short term effects for
Hexane ingestion exposure?
Why not just say it? Is something keeping the OSHA from putting it in
writing? Might it be that Hexane indeed is a regular food ingredient
and actually is present in sufficient adversely affecting amounts in
the foods that I eat, that OSHA encounters that resistance to stating
the obvious- "same as short-term"- when naming the long-term
effects for Hexane ingestion?
Everyone tells the truth of who they are when they speak. Who does OSHA
reveal that they are in changing their manner away from saying that the
effects for long-term are the same as for short term, as opposed to
what they have said for Hexane: "we are not noting in this blank any
adverse effects"?
Why is cancer of all kinds so prevalent in the United States? Can the
long term ingestion of immune system depressing petroleum distillates
used in the manufacture of high protein, high fiber meals and
'healthy' vegetable oils that we eat be validly associated with the
many and varied cancers today?
Cancer is but the symptom of an overworked and overburdened immune
system, unburden the immune system, and the body will heal itself of
cancer.
p.p.s. : This letter and an MSDS link have been posted to the website
address:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Hexane/
and the web address www.datacruz.com/~baneyred/index
is under construction now.
and may be referenced freely.
Can you research these questions for your own peace of mind and come to
your own conclusions? If you agree that these questions are legitimate
and deserve consideration, will you please forward this questioning
letter to deserving people who you know?