An interesting note about what we are feeding to our Beef, Dairy cattle, swine and poultry.

Spring, 2006

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 last month I have learned that straight vegetable oil can be used as a many ways superior-quality fuel over petroleum diesel!

In researching vegetable oils and the methods involved in their ‘creation’ or processing, I learned that ninety-five percent of all vegetable oil in the US and world are created using the very neurologically reactive neuro-toxin Hexane. Its use solves tight budget desires for the consumer to get cheap food.

The neurotoxin Hexane is said to be the most adversely effecting toxin of all of toxic solvents.

Hexane is a petro-chemical that damages and weakens the immune system, and causes birth defects for animals who ingest it.

The OSHA exposure limit for inhalation of Hexane has been set at 50 parts per million (8-10 hours).
How much Hexane remains in oils and food meals produced using Hexane as solvent from vegetable oil and food meal processing?

One producer of oil producing machinery that uses Hexane says that a half percent Hexane remains in the meals after processing with Hexane, and another company selling Hexane-Free soybean oil says that a half percent Hexane remains in meals and oils processed with Hexane.

Turning soybeans and corn into soybean and corn oil is done by 'flaking' the grains as finely as possible. Then the gasoline Hexane is added and meals are soaked in this gasoline. Hexane accomplishes quick and cheap oil extraction from grains. I call Hexane gasoline though it is not exactly gasoline. Gasoline usually contains 1-2% Hexane.

The EPA has provided the following internet document that reveals average concentrations found for Hexane in various stages of production of food meal. Which stage and which plant & location produce human or animal food meal is not specified: http://www.epa.gov/ttn/chief/ap42/ch09/bgdocs/b9s11-1.pdf

This study reveals that food meal's Hexane average to be: .152 gallons, .119 gallons, .097 gallons of Hexane remain per ton food meal after Hexane is removed by the “desolventizing toaster”, “dryer”, and ‘cooler’ process, respectively.

I round the average to one pound per ton, ballpark of given numbers.

The lowest average level found by EPA, .097 gallons, amounts to about one half pound of Hexane per ton of food meal in the final process of food meal production.(this is about .05%) EPA’s measured average weight of Hexane per ton of meal is approximately two hundred and fifty parts per million.

(One million pounds = five hundred 2000 pound tons, so 1 pound per ton = 500pounds Hexane per million pounds food meal)

I have searched for and pored over more than two thousand websites looking for statements of what levels of Hexane in cattle food and human food should be. Also I desired to find what levels of neurologically toxic Hexane are.

Hexane causes heart damage, brain damage, impotence, reproductive system damage, loss of fur(hair), irritability, confusion, difficulty breathing, the stopping of breathing, heart failure, etc. etc.

         Hexane processed meal is made into pellets and sold to feed cattle. What Hexane level is in human food?

        .05 % amounts to approximately five hundred parts per million Hexane toxin in meal. A level that is ten times higher than OSHA's permissible levels for temporary exposure to Hexane (50 parts per million exposure limit for 8-10 hours).

        Contact internally is contact, Hexane's exposure to stomach and intestines, is exposure in that body part designed to dissolve, digest and deliver to the rest of the body, brain, heart, lungs and reproductive system, whatever is placed in it.

       Should there be recommended ingestion levels for Hexane? And should advised ingestion levels be at least as low, or lower than the fifty parts per million inhalation level?

        This lower fifty parts per million occupational inhalation exposure limit time frame is for 8-10 hours, while Hexane's toxic exposure contact occurs intestinally for about 36 hours while it passes through a person's body.

        Hexane forms a bond with vegetable’s protein molecules as vegetable oil is extracted from its meal. Hexane’s bonding to protein is what effects extraction of oil from grain meals.

        Hexane does not let go of that grip on protein unless it is induced to, either by temperature causing its grip to lessen, or another solvent or acid effecting a break of this bond.

        The stomach’s acids are catalyst to effect that fracturing, loosening Hexane and allowing it to be carried into the person’s bloodstream, where Hexane then does the things it does to a body, possibly attaching itself to a protein cell of the body.

        I recently learned there is a problem with dairy cattle ‘breeding back’, or getting pregnant again, after heavy milk production . One of the effects of Hexane is reproductive system damage and reproductive problems in animals.

        Another effect associated with Hexane is fur loss. Our cattle were only fed meal pellets in winter, and were losing their fur, mid-winter through the springtime, in patches. Summertime being when their fur always grew back and livestock look healthier while eating green grass.

Effects of Hexane exposure include: listlessness, fatigue, confusion, and irritability.

Another effect of Hexane is damage to fetuses in womb

Last year we had two out of eight calves die, one who died was born blind. Visual maladies are also a known effect of Hexane(Hexane's Material Safety Data Sheet).

Of the living calves, one walks with an odd gait, and a stiff rear left leg. The calf has possibly suffered nerve damage, now he can not make his left leg ‘go’ like he wants it to.

Rear end underdevelopment of fetuses is an effect of Hexane, noted in research of effects of Hexane on rats in uterus.

I have wondered if the time at which this toxin was administered to calves while in uterus is reason that some of my calves are born perfectly healthy. Gestation is nine months long, and Hexane's toxic effects could change depending on what stage of development the fetus is in when this toxin was ingested by the mother. Some calves may be free of high levels of their mother’s ingestion of Hexane if they conceive and develop during the time of year when we are not feeding the cows this processed pelletized supplement.

I spoke to an Amish dairy man by name of Leon K. about my own theory of Hexane residue in food meals being cause for these maladies:

       My cattle's miscarriages, Dairy livestock's trouble re-breeding, America’s need for Rogaine because their fur is falling off, America’s need for Viagra because it no longer goes skyward, Road Rage from irritability, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Parkinson’s disease, Mad Cow Disease, etcetera.

        He said in reply that he had bought some soy meal once from a certain company,   NEVER AGAIN!- he said. He had fed the meal to a group of sows but only three of five got pregnant.

        I asked the man at the feed center where we were buying our cattle food, what level of Hexane remained in his protein supplement, and he answered: “People get hung up on how much toxins are in foods…”

I now know what the EPA measurement for this toxin is by finding EPA's document noted above. Hexane’s confessed average concentration after toaster processing stage”: (0.152) gallons, or about 1 pound of Hexane per ton of food meal after ‘desolventizing toaster’ processing.)

Hexane’s effects are well documented and are neurological symptoms that I noticed in my cattle when feeding them grain meal pellets leftover from Hexane based processing of various whole grains into vegetable oils.

The tell-tale symptoms that these cattle displayed in their activity and manner after eating Hexane-laced meals resemble Mad Cow Disease. This toxin Hexane, fed to cattle causes Mad Cow Disease. My simple mind sees connection.

Three points to weigh:
1. Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease) is brain damage, caused by what an animal is fed.

3. Hexane is fed to cattle in large quantity. (up to 1/2 pound Hexane per 100 pounds of meal)

To discover what does cause Mad Cow Disease, study the two countries in the world that do not have any Mad Cow Disease: New Zealand and Australia. Look at what they feed to their cattle.

New Zealand and Australian livestock are fed grass and grass hay, and not Hexane-laced grain supplements. Can New Zealand and Australia’s freedom from Mad Cow Disease be explained in a simpler way?

The source, Hexane 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 he eats? Is there a way other than growing his own grass hay to feed his own cattle & to stop eating cereal meals and white flours and white sugars and any other food that has likely been processed with toxic Hexane?

A small amount of toxins in food is good and acceptable, but a concentration for Hexane in food over one hundred times occupational limit-five hundred part per million in food compared to the fifty part per million limit set for the worker-is not acceptable in food.

One study named:
“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.

Note: “over 50% of total exposure” is vague wording, but this is a government document, and the public would be shocked if they were to discover that their exposure to dioxin like products through consumption of bovine cattle products is closer to 91 percent than it is to 50 percent of total ingestion exposure. 91 % is over 50 %, so clearly the document can be proven true.

This study points to notes of some dioxins in and on grass feeds, meal pellets, and alfalfa etcetera and is an honest study.

Very difficult for a three year old like me to follow, but these are 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 …

It has been explained to me by some speculators of the levels of Hexane in food that “the levels of Hexane that remain in food are “probably very low”

But since I have seen my cattle acting as if they had taken very large doses of Hexane, displaying symptoms associated with Hexane, and I see publicly in America many of the effects that have been noted as specific symptoms for Hexane exposure, is it too much to ask: “how low of concentration is Hexane in food ?”

Eggs may have high concentrations of Hexane in them, and the meat of birds may have very high concentration. As a youth I worked at an egg producing farm, and chickens are fed this Hexane-laced meal also.

Thank you for taking time to read and listen to my questions. I earnestly await response. As I intend to discover answers to these questions and I think people are key to discovering answers to any problem, any question, I am going to employ newspapers and other media outlets worldwide.

Face to face I hand this letter to people I meet. I will provide these questions to my leaders and request them to answer this question.

How much Hexane is in human food ?

Perhaps an answer could be posed that Hexane escapes by evaporation into the open air. It seems that open air evaporation would work well for evaporating off toxic Hexane from grain meal, if enough time and temperature can be supplied. One look into the effects of Hexane and I know whether I would buy a house next to a certified Hexane evaporation procesing plant(or a grain elevator, for that matter)

Grain meals are transported and stored in closed containers from time of their processing until placed into air-tight plastic bags for transportation to the feeding site by most farmers, there is little time or opportunity for hexane to evaporate after meal’s processing.

        Toxic Hexane is reportable. Any corporation that releases more than one pound per year is required to report that release to the government.

       Should dairy farmers account for and report releases of known concentrations of Hexane in grain meals fed to animals? How many tons of grain meal do 3500 cows eat in a year? A high-producing dairy cow produces over one hundred pounds of milk every day. If dairy cattle were only fed five pounds of Hexane processed grain meal every day, 3500 cattle would eat 6,387,500 pounds of Hexane processed grain meal in a years’ time.

        How much toxic Hexane would be brought into the environment local to that factory every year? In a year, using EPA’s findings of 238 parts per million Hexane concentration, that factory would pollute environment and water supply local to that farm with 1520 pounds of Hexane in one year’s time.

        Hexane levels given by the EPA, as interpreted by Dr. Randall Lovell of the FDA to me concerning Hexane content in grain meal:

Response: The EPA publication at this website is entitled "Emission Factor Documentation for AP-42, Section 9.11.1, Vegetable Oil Processing, Final Report." Table 4-4 on page 4-11 provides hexane concentrations in soybean meal and vent gases during processing in liters per Metric ton (gallon per ton). liters per Metric ton is liters per metric ton and gallon per ton is gallons per ton.
The average hexane concentration at 9 vegetable oil processing plants after the 'desolventizer toaster' process was .565 liters per Metric ton or .152 gallon per ton. The average hexane concentration at 5 vegetable oil processing plants after the 'dryer' process was 0.442 liters per Metric ton or .119 gallon per ton. The average hexane concentration at 8 plants after the 'cooler' process was .360 liters per Metric ton or .097 gallon per ton.
I then converted liters per Metric ton to parts per million (parts per million) and used 0.6603 as the density for hexane. I calculated that the average hexane concentrations in the soybean meal after the 'desolventizer toaster' process, the 'dryer' process, and the 'cooler' process were 373 parts per million, 292 parts per million, and 238 parts per million, respectively.”-
             Dr. Randall Lovell, FDA, Feb 10, 06.

        The lowest average explained by Dr Lovell of the FDA, is measured at about one half pound of Hexane per ton of feed meal.

        With the 'dairy factory' inputting only five pounds of Hexane processed feed meal daily per cow, a 3500 head dairy factory would pollute surrounding environment with 1520 pounds of Hexane in one year’s time. That is true unless the total of the hexane remains in the milk and the meat of the dairy cow who are fed Hexane.

        Where does Hexane fed to cattle go to if it does not remain in meat and milk of the cow? Do cattle have a body cleaner like humans do that excretes poisons through urine?

Using the official EPA findings for Hexane in meals at approx .025% of Hexane residue in Hexane processed feed meal, 1520 pounds of Hexane would be put into the local environment and water supplies of that 3500 head dairy operation every year.

Do dairy farms report release of the toxic Hexane into environment and water supply?
Should the release of hexane to environment and local water supplies through feed given to cattle be regulated?

EPA has measured Hexane content in meals, Hexane concentration can be measured by people who know how to find Hexane.

Can a valid measurement and levels be made for Hexane in meats and in cheese and in milk and in eggs that we eat?
What amount of Hexane remains in our food ?

To anyone who wishes to, I give permission to publish this letter or any part of it, no restrictions, This is a free letter, I encourage forwarding this letter.

Earnestly, Dale Baney :baneyred@skyenet.net

p.s. In reading Hexane’s Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS), there is a discrepancy in speech there, when naming effects of various methods of Hexane exposure.

Hexane’s MSDS notes information on short term adverse effects for inhalation.

Hexane’s MSDS notes information on long-term adverse effects of Hexane inhalation as: “same as for short-term exposure”, plus more adverse effects, including impotence.

Hexane’s MSDS notes information on skin-contact short-term adverse effects, and long-term exposure effects by skin-contact are: “same as for short-term exposure”.

But Hexane’s MSDS about ingestion, or exposure by eating, effects are a very interesting study..

Hexane’s MSDS oddly does not keep to habit, by saying that long term effects are the same as for short-term exposure, but here say:

But was information on short-term adverse effects noted in line immediately preceding this statement? possibly, but can I read this for myself?

Is “Brain Damage” listed as an effect of Hexane in in the line immediately preceeding line stating “no information on adverse effects”?

Is information on "Brain Damage", as an adverse ingestion effect, listed in Hexane’s MSDS as a short term adverse effect?

Should Hexane’s MSDS rightly say that long term effects by ingestion are the same as information noted for short term effects for exposure by ingestion?

Why not simply say the obvious: that effects for hexane ingestion over long term are the same as for short term exposure?

Is something keeping OSHA from putting it in writing?

Does a cursory reading of Hexane’s MSDS leave a person believing that Hexane is harmless, because he has read the one line that affects him, because he discovered Hexane is in food?

        Did I read Hexane's MSDS for myself and see where it says that Brain Damage is a "short term effect" and then in the very next line says that there is no information on adverse effects?

        Why is cancer of all kinds so prevalent in the United States and world? Can long term ingestion of immune system weakening petroleum distillates used in 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 symptom of an overworked and overburdened, weak immune system.

Unburden and strengthen the immune system. Will the body will heal itself of all cancers?

Will you research these questions for peace of mind and come to your own conclusions? If you agree that these questions are legitimate and deserve consideration, will you forward this questioning letter to deserving people who you know?