First Mate does not provide a great deal of information about
where they source their ingredients, but they do own and operate their own human - grade production facilities and they do not use any
corn,
wheat,
or soy ingredients in their products.
[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River
where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US
corn crop, Russian
wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails —
or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)
According to the USDA's latest data, by 2010 - 11, no - till farming had grown to the point
where roughly 40 percent of the
corn, soybean,
wheat, and cotton grown per year in the U.S. used either no - till
or a half - step technique called strip - tilling.