An interesting notice about what we are feeding to our beef and dairy cattle.
bane...@gmail.com
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 have 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 causes birth defects, & damages the immune systems of animals who
eat it. The occupational exposure limit for inhalation of Hexane as set
by OSHA at 50 ppm (TWghAvg 8 -10 hours). How much Hexane & Methylene
Chloride remain in the oils and the 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
human consumption, and which stage and which plant & location produce
for 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, sexual impotence(MSDS for Hexane) and reproductive system
damage, hair loss 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 foolish 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 that 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
500ppm for up to fifteen minutes and 50ppm for 8-10 hours.
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, and 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 attatched to the vegetable's protein when the oil
is extracted. Hexane attaches itself to 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 the 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, and Hexane causes erectile
dysfunction - "impotence" - in men(MSDS for Hexane). Another effect
associated with Hexane is hair loss. Our cattle were only fed the meal
in the winter and were losing their hair, mid-winter through the
springtime, in patches. The summertime being the time when the hair
always grew back and the livestock then look healthier, while eating
the green grass. A known effect of Hexane in people is listlessness,
fatigue, and 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 my
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 which 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 when we are not feeding the cows
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 hair is falling out, the need for Viagra because they can no
longer get it up, 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 that same amount claimed by a producer
of hexane free soybean oils(0.5%), that admitted level (~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 then we
eventually eat the meat of that livestock, I finally found your
official government 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, is the same
neuro-logical toxin that were used as the solvent in the lab, the
toxins Hexane(and now Methylene Chloride).
The toxic solvent Hexane's stated effects have been recorded by many
over the years and have the well-known solvent fingerprint symptoms
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 fingerprint of symptoms that those cattle display in
their activities after eating Hexane-laced meals resembles the maladies
of BSE and TSE. These toxins, Hexane and Methylene Chloride fed to cows
causes scrapie and mad cow disease. My simple mind sees that
connection.
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 food.
Can I do a test for Hexane concentration in the feeds of animals? 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 emphasises)
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 lowerchlorinated
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 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, Methylene Chloride and
Hexane? Meat and milk and eggs 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 also 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 also.
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. 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, how does that compare with the average concentration
of Hexane in meals fed to animals? As measured by the EPA, that meal
contains ~507 ppm(507ppm is detectable by the EPA, can my lab detect an
amount ten times above OSHA's incidental contact level?
Because 95% of all meal processing is Hexane- Methylene Chloride based,
and processing by other than with Hexane-Methylene Chloride is a little
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 processes of 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 about the
average Hexane concentration, as stated by the EPA.
But what should the level of that toxin be in my food? Is 50ppm Hexane
ok to eat occasionally? What about 500ppm Hexane regularly? If the EPA
has measured hexane in that meal, could they measure for it in meats
and in cheese and in milk and in eggs that I eat? What is the measured
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, It is a free
letter, I encourage the forwarding of this letter.
Earnestly yours,
Dale Baney
bane...@datacruz.com
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 in men. 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 once a week for the rest of his life, should
not the MSDS sheet 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"?