European Hamsters face new crisis

[Catherine]

They also turn corn into corn syrup. Just look how many things are sweetened with corn syrup. It is a form of sugar that is very bad for us.  It is probably a major contributor to the diabetes epidemic.

Corn starch was never meant to be eaten in quantities, not by us and not by our pets.

The hamster crisis may be a bit of a warning to us all.

We certainly haven't learned anything about farming. Whenever we get into vast tracts of monoculture farming it seems to work at first then problems arise. Soils get depleted by the same crop over and over. Lack of hedge rows and wooded areas invites drought or flooding damage. Areas of wild plants help stabilize the soil. Also if some blight attacks the corn crop it will  spread and  everything will go.

I doubt they have enough sense to plant different kinds of corn.

It is an agricultural disaster in the making.
It is a dietary disaster in the making.
Hamsters are the first casualty. If we would listen to them and help them we would also be helping ourselves.