As a farmer, Im supposed to hate vegans and environmental activists, but thats nonsense. Even when I dont agree with everything they say, I share their wish to make the world a better place and their concern about the state its in today. In an age of increasingly apocalyptic news about the natural world, we are frequently warned that the things we are buying and eating are driving ecological collapse. Sensible and thoughtful people everywhere are asking the same question: what should I eat?

It is a good question and an important one that speaks of a growing public awareness of our footprint on Earth and our wish to do less harm, individually and collectively. But as a farmer I know that that question masks another, far deeper one, that we must all ask ourselves: how should we farm?

Yes, that question is relevant to each of us, even if we dont work on the land. What we choose to eat isnt just a personal choice. The things we pick from the shelves as we shop (and how much we pay for them) add up to a world-shaping message that is broadcast across the fields and determines what farmers choose to grow and how they must do it. So lets ask ourselves, and farmers, to produce food that makes ecological sense. The question what should I eat? is looking down the wrong end of the telescope.

So, how should we farm? A sustainable and good farming landscape needs to do many things. It needs to feed us all affordably, to keep soil healthy, to provide micro-habitats such as hedgerows and field trees and even protect what is left of precious habitats such as peat bogs, rivers, wetlands and woodland. If a farming landscape does all this well already, then it is perhaps enough for us to talk about it being sustainable. In practice, however, few places are like this, so we need to be way more ambitious.

We need to ask for regenerative agriculture, which means boosting soil health and encouraging biodiversity by working with natural processes as we grow food. More often than not, this means using grazing animals in mixed farming systems. Livestock, if well managed, repair soil, trample or eat crop residues and waste, provide fertiliser and control weeds. It means our uplands becoming patchworks of native habitats meadows and pastures, woodland and bogs and our lowlands working as rotational mosaics of fields.

We have become profoundly disconnected from the fields that feed us and it can be difficult to know, as we stand in the supermarket aisles, whether our food has been grown sustainably. We often dont realise that, behind the misleading packaging, a lot of what we eat doesnt come from our own landscapes, but from far-off places where animal welfare or environmental regulations are almost non-existent.

Responding to this crisis, many people opt for a plant-based diet. For sure, there are sensible reasons to eat lots of fruit, nuts and vegetables. But if those plants were produced in landscape-scale monocultures, created by ploughing (which is increasingly understood to be an ecological disaster) and grown using either copious amounts of synthetic fertilisers or with industrial chicken litter and doused in pesticides well, count me out. Such places would once have been biodiverse forests, mixed wild habitats or, perhaps, less destructive, more nature-friendly mixed farms. Yes, it takes less space, but it is the worst farming on Earth. The ethical reasoning doesnt go nearly far enough.

Likewise, just choosing to eat local food doesnt cut it if that food is produced in ecologically disastrous ways. Even choosing to eat organic doesnt necessarily meet the challenge, because organic fields are often ploughed and, at vast scale, devastate wildlife and release huge quantities of carbon into the air.

The difficult truth is that theres no such thing as a one-size-fits-all global sustainable diet that will solve the ecological crisis at one fell swoop. We are all local to somewhere and owning, seeing and taking responsibility for our food and how it is grown is imperative. We need to re-engage with the fields that feed us. We need to learn about and care about farming once more.

As a first step, I would urge everyone to try to grow something of their own to eat, at least once. Of course, not everyone is lucky enough to own a field, or even a garden, but just growing something like a packet of lettuce on a windowsill can help to appreciate the beauty, the challenge and the sheer miracle of growing food. It helps us to start to think about the soil, about the life were nurturing, about the elemental processes that sustain us all.

As you do so, you might start to think of the British countryside as your garden. You wouldnt walk into it and expect to eat something from it that you couldnt actually grow, or something out of season, or something that trashed your garden. Instead, you would look at what was available in each season and try to eat accordingly.

Beyond this, if you can, get your food direct from a farmer with a sustainable farming system and environmental values (quite a lot of them can be found on social media and, yes, they often home deliver). Or try being a nuisance and ask more questions in shops and restaurants about where the food came from. If it doesnt have an origin, a story you can understand, dont buy it. And then be noisy. Demand changes to our laws that raise our standards and encourage progressive change on farms via environmental schemes. Above all, right now we should all raise our voices against the proposed US trade deal that would drive things to be much, much worse.

When we find ways to farm regeneratively and in ways that allow nature to thrive around us, then we will have a range of foodstuffs to choose from. We can then take our pick and eat what we each think is right and good.

James Rebanks is a farmer based in the Lake District. His latest book is English Pastoral

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Enough with 'local' and 'organic'. We'll begin to eat well when we farm well - The Guardian

September 04, 2020 18:29 ET | Source: ReportLinker

New York, Sept. 04, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Global Starch Industry" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p05485911/?utm_source=GNW The food processing industry remains the largest established application area supported by increased demand for convenience foods at the back of growing number of working women, higher disposable incomes and preference for easy meal and snack options. In the food industry, starch is a versatile additive valuable in imparting viscosity, stability, creaminess, texture, and mouth feel to food products. "Clean label" revolution underway in the food industry is driving demand for pure and native corn/rice/tapioca/ potato starch at the expense of "modified corn starch". A naturally occurring polymer, starch is also an excellent pharmaceutical excipient given its non-toxic properties. Starch-based adhesives are growing in popularity in industrial packaging applications where they are increasingly being valued for their cost benefits, recyclability, easy solubility and dispersion in water; excellent heat resistance; increased stability and shelf-life. The market also stands to benefit from the massively growing popularity of organic foods and the ensuing demand for organic certified starch; growing concerns over gluten, rise in gluten intolerance and the resulting interest in modified food starch from corn as against wheat starch; increased use of starch and starch derivatives in detergents and textiles as a result of the growing stringency of environmental regulations; significant advancements in starch science; development of innovative starch extraction and modification techniques; emerging new uses of starch and starch derivatives such as in starch-based biodegradable plastics/starch-composite plastics, and starch based binders for metal injection molding. Rising prices of gelatine is throwing the spotlight on starch as an affordable alternative.

Starch-based biodegradable polymers have been gaining prominence in the recent years due mainly to its abundant availability, the relatively low price, and eco-friendly profile, all of which present them as ideal replacements for petrochemical-based polymers. Starch blended biodegradable polymers are formed through the combination of synthetic polymers and are capable of breaking down into various types of natural by-products such as biomass, water, inorganic salts and gases. These polymers combine the physical attributes of polymers and the biodegradable nature of starch. With starch content in the 10-90% range, starch-based polymers are crystalline in nature and are also relatively easy to process. On an industrial scale, starch blended biodegradable polymers are produced through the processing of low-density polyethylene, ethylene acrylic acid copolymer, and starch in a mix of glycerin and water. Since the properties of starch-based polymers are similar to that of low-density polyethylene (LDPE), these are widely used in the production of bags for recycling of organic waste, packaging, hygiene products and in agricultural applications. Asia-Pacific including China is a major market led by favorable economic climate, growing population, robust food processing industry, expanding manufacturing sector as a result of shifting of production bases to low cost Asian countries and strong growth of paper mills and packaging sectors in China, India, Russia, and Brazil.

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I. INTRODUCTION, METHODOLOGY & REPORT SCOPE

II. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1. MARKET OVERVIEW Starch: Integral Ingredient in Food and Non-Food Applications Outlook Developing Economies Continue to Fuel Starch Demand Rising Health Awareness Generates Demand for Starch Products Production Scenario Global Starch Production Breakdown in % by Country/Region World Trade in Starch & Inulin: A Brief Overview World Starches & Inulin Market (2018): Percentage Breakdown of Export Value by Leading Exporting Countries World Starches & Inulin Market (2018): Percentage Breakdown of Import Value by Leading Importing Countries Competition An Intensely Competitive Marketplace Recent Market Activity Impact of Covid-19 and a Looming Global Recession

2. FOCUS ON SELECT PLAYERS AGRANA Beteiligungs-AG (Austria) Archer Daniels Midland Company (USA) AVEBE (The Netherlands) BENEO GmbH (Germany) Cargill, Inc. (USA) Chemstar Products Company (USA) Global Bio-Chem Technology Group Company Limited (China) Grain Processing Corporation (USA) Ingredion Incorporated (USA) PT. Budi Starch & Sweetener Tbk (Indonesia) Roquette Frres (France) Tereos Starch & Sweeteners s.a.s. (France) Tate & Lyle PLC (UK) The Emsland Group (Germany) Zhucheng Xingmao Corn Developing Co., Ltd. (China)

3. MARKET TRENDS & DRIVERS Clean Label Starches Bodes Well for Functional Native Starches Food Industry: Dominant Market for Starch Use of Starch as a Fat Replacer Drives Growth Resistant Starch Comes into Focus Starch Blended Biodegradable Polymers: Expanding Applications Fuel Growth Starch-based Bioplastics Market (2019): Percentage Breakdown of Revenues by Technology Starch-based Biodegradable Polymers Gain Momentum Major Suppliers of Starch-Based Biodegradable Polymers Starch in ?Green? Products Environmental Issues Widen the Use of Starch in Detergents and Textiles Extended Applications Drive Market Gains Focus Grows on Innovations Native Starch Market Gains Growth Modified Starch Market: Food & Beverage Industry Fuels Growth Food & Beverage Leads the Global Modified Starch Market Major Markets for Modified Starch Market Modified Starch Market Receives Boost with Biotechnology Modified Starches Bring Higher Quality to Paper Industry Tropical Starch: A Review Corn Starch: Market Growth Prospects Cassava Starch: A Leading Tropical Starch Type Wheat Starch: Rising Needs of Food Industry Bode Well for the Market Potato Starch: Food Industry Spurs Opportunities Global Potato Starch Market by Region (2019): Percentage Breakdown of Production Output New Applications Emerge for Rice Starch in Pharmaceutical & Cosmetics Industry Product Overview Definition of Starch Types of Starch Dry Starches Native Starch Modified Starch/Specialty Starch Other Dry Starches Liquid Starch Products Sources of Starch Maize (Corn) Cassava Wheat Starch Potato Starch Arrowroot Canna edulis White Corn Starch Yellow Corn Malanga Starch Pearl Tapioca Rice Starch Sago Starch Sorghum Starch Sweet Potato Starch Taro Yam Starch End-Use Profile A Boon to Non-Food Sector

4. GLOBAL MARKET PERSPECTIVE Table 1: World Current & Future Analysis for Starch by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2020 through 2027

Table 2: World Historic Review for Starch by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 3: World 15-Year Perspective for Starch by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

Table 4: World Current & Future Analysis for Liquid Starch by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2020 through 2027

Table 5: World Historic Review for Liquid Starch by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 6: World 15-Year Perspective for Liquid Starch by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

Table 7: World Current & Future Analysis for Native Dry Starch by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2020 through 2027

Table 8: World Historic Review for Native Dry Starch by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 9: World 15-Year Perspective for Native Dry Starch by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

Table 10: World Current & Future Analysis for Modified Dry Starch by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2020 through 2027

Table 11: World Historic Review for Modified Dry Starch by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 12: World 15-Year Perspective for Modified Dry Starch by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

Table 13: World Current & Future Analysis for Other Product Segments by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2020 through 2027

Table 14: World Historic Review for Other Product Segments by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 15: World 15-Year Perspective for Other Product Segments by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

Table 16: World Current & Future Analysis for Food & Beverage by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2020 through 2027

Table 17: World Historic Review for Food & Beverage by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 18: World 15-Year Perspective for Food & Beverage by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

Table 19: World Current & Future Analysis for Paper by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2020 through 2027

Table 20: World Historic Review for Paper by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 21: World 15-Year Perspective for Paper by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

Table 22: World Current & Future Analysis for Pharmaceutical by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2020 through 2027

Table 23: World Historic Review for Pharmaceutical by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 24: World 15-Year Perspective for Pharmaceutical by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

Table 25: World Current & Future Analysis for Feed by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2020 through 2027

Table 26: World Historic Review for Feed by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 27: World 15-Year Perspective for Feed by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

Table 28: World Current & Future Analysis for Other End-Uses by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2020 through 2027

Table 29: World Historic Review for Other End-Uses by Geographic Region - USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 30: World 15-Year Perspective for Other End-Uses by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for USA, Canada, Japan, China, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

III. MARKET ANALYSIS

GEOGRAPHIC MARKET ANALYSIS

UNITED STATES Starch Derivatives Market in the US Modified Starch Market: Food & Beverage Represents the Leading Application Segment Modified Starch Market in the US (2019): Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales by Application - Animal Feed, Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Textile and Others ABLE: Modified Starch Market in the US (2019): Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales by Product - Cationic Starch, Pre- gelatinized Starch, Resistant Starch, Starch Esters & Ethers and Others Corn Starch Market: The Widely Used Starch Product HFCS Production Determines Demand for Corn Starch Biodegradable Plastics Drive Demand for Starch Demand for Rice Starch Grows Production Statistics US Potatoes Production Volume (in 000 Cwt) for the Years 2010 through 2019 US Corn Production in Million Metric Tons for Years 2010 through 2019 US Wheat Production Volume in Million Bushels for Years 2012-13 through 2018-19 EXIM Statistics US Exports of Starches (Inulin) (2019): Percentage Breakdown of Export Value by Destination Country Wheat Starch Market Exports in the US (2019): Percentage Breakdown of Export Value by Country of Destination Maize (Corn) Starch Exports in the US (2019): Percentage Breakdown of Export Value by Country of Destination Potato Starch Exports in the US (2019): Percentage Breakdown of Export Value by Country of Destination Manioc (Cassava) Starch Exports in the US (2019): Percentage Breakdown of Export Value by Country of Destination US Imports for Starches (Inulin) (2019): Percentage Breakdown of Import Value by Country of Origin Wheat Starch Imports in the US (2019): Percentage Breakdown of Import Value by Country of Origin Maize (Corn) Starch Imports in the US (2019): Percentage Breakdown of Import Value by Country of Origin Potato Starch Imports in the US (2019): Percentage Breakdown of Import Value by Country of Origin Market Analytics Table 31: USA Current & Future Analysis for Starch by Product Segment - Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for the Years 2020 through 2027

Table 32: USA Historic Review for Starch by Product Segment - Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 33: USA 15-Year Perspective for Starch by Product Segment - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

Table 34: USA Current & Future Analysis for Starch by End-Use - Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for the Years 2020 through 2027

Table 35: USA Historic Review for Starch by End-Use - Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 36: USA 15-Year Perspective for Starch by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

CANADA Canadian Imports of Starches (Inulin) (2017): Percentage Breakdown of Import Value by Country of Origin EXIM Statistics Corn Starch Market in China (2019): Percentage Breakdown of Consumption in Modified Starch, Starch Sugar and Others Canadian Exports of Starches (Inulin) (2019): Percentage Breakdown of Export Value by Destination Country Canadian Imports of Wheat Starch (2019): Percentage Breakdown of Import Value by Country of Origin Canadian Imports of Maize (Corn) Starch (2019): Percentage Breakdown of Import Value by Country of Origin Canadian Exports of Maize (Corn) Starch (2017): Percentage Breakdown of Export Value by Destination Country Market Analytics Table 37: Canada Current & Future Analysis for Starch by Product Segment - Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for the Years 2020 through 2027

Table 38: Canada Historic Review for Starch by Product Segment - Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 39: Canada 15-Year Perspective for Starch by Product Segment - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

Table 40: Canada Current & Future Analysis for Starch by End-Use - Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for the Years 2020 through 2027

Table 41: Canada Historic Review for Starch by End-Use - Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 42: Canada 15-Year Perspective for Starch by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

JAPAN Market Overview Market Analytics Table 43: Japan Current & Future Analysis for Starch by Product Segment - Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for the Years 2020 through 2027

Table 44: Japan Historic Review for Starch by Product Segment - Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 45: Japan 15-Year Perspective for Starch by Product Segment - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

Table 46: Japan Current & Future Analysis for Starch by End-Use - Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for the Years 2020 through 2027

Table 47: Japan Historic Review for Starch by End-Use - Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 48: Japan 15-Year Perspective for Starch by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

CHINA Market Overview Potato Starch Market: An Insight Starch Sugar Emerges as Alternative to High Cost Edible Sugar Modified Starch: A High Growth Market Corn Starch Market in China: An Overview Cassava Starch Market in China Market Analytics Table 49: China Current & Future Analysis for Starch by Product Segment - Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for the Years 2020 through 2027

Table 50: China Historic Review for Starch by Product Segment - Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 51: China 15-Year Perspective for Starch by Product Segment - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

Table 52: China Current & Future Analysis for Starch by End-Use - Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for the Years 2020 through 2027

Table 53: China Historic Review for Starch by End-Use - Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 54: China 15-Year Perspective for Starch by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

EUROPE Production Scenario Starch Production (in Million Tonnes) in the EU for the Years 2010 through 2018 EU Starch Market (2019): Percentage Breakdown of Raw Materials Used in Starch Production A Peek into the Food Starch Market Contribution of the European Starch Industry to the Economy and Environment Market Analytics Table 55: Europe Current & Future Analysis for Starch by Geographic Region - France, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Russia and Rest of Europe Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2020 through 2027

Table 56: Europe Historic Review for Starch by Geographic Region - France, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Russia and Rest of Europe Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 57: Europe 15-Year Perspective for Starch by Geographic Region - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for France, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Russia and Rest of Europe Markets for Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

Table 58: Europe Current & Future Analysis for Starch by Product Segment - Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for the Years 2020 through 2027

Table 59: Europe Historic Review for Starch by Product Segment - Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 60: Europe 15-Year Perspective for Starch by Product Segment - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

Table 61: Europe Current & Future Analysis for Starch by End-Use - Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for the Years 2020 through 2027

Table 62: Europe Historic Review for Starch by End-Use - Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 63: Europe 15-Year Perspective for Starch by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

FRANCE Table 64: France Current & Future Analysis for Starch by Product Segment - Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for the Years 2020 through 2027

Table 65: France Historic Review for Starch by Product Segment - Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 66: France 15-Year Perspective for Starch by Product Segment - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

Table 67: France Current & Future Analysis for Starch by End-Use - Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for the Years 2020 through 2027

Table 68: France Historic Review for Starch by End-Use - Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 69: France 15-Year Perspective for Starch by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

GERMANY Table 70: Germany Current & Future Analysis for Starch by Product Segment - Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for the Years 2020 through 2027

Table 71: Germany Historic Review for Starch by Product Segment - Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 72: Germany 15-Year Perspective for Starch by Product Segment - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

Table 73: Germany Current & Future Analysis for Starch by End-Use - Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for the Years 2020 through 2027

Table 74: Germany Historic Review for Starch by End-Use - Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 75: Germany 15-Year Perspective for Starch by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

ITALY Table 76: Italy Current & Future Analysis for Starch by Product Segment - Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for the Years 2020 through 2027

Table 77: Italy Historic Review for Starch by Product Segment - Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 78: Italy 15-Year Perspective for Starch by Product Segment - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

Table 79: Italy Current & Future Analysis for Starch by End-Use - Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for the Years 2020 through 2027

Table 80: Italy Historic Review for Starch by End-Use - Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 81: Italy 15-Year Perspective for Starch by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

UNITED KINGDOM Table 82: UK Current & Future Analysis for Starch by Product Segment - Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for the Years 2020 through 2027

Table 83: UK Historic Review for Starch by Product Segment - Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 84: UK 15-Year Perspective for Starch by Product Segment - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Liquid Starch, Native Dry Starch, Modified Dry Starch and Other Product Segments for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

Table 85: UK Current & Future Analysis for Starch by End-Use - Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for the Years 2020 through 2027

Table 86: UK Historic Review for Starch by End-Use - Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses Markets - Independent Analysis of Annual Sales in Million Metric Tons for Years 2012 through 2019

Table 87: UK 15-Year Perspective for Starch by End-Use - Percentage Breakdown of Value Sales for Food & Beverage, Paper, Pharmaceutical, Feed and Other End-Uses for the Years 2012, 2020 & 2027

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ALBANY, N.Y., Sept. 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Factors such as the complex web of food supply chains, the absence of basic hygiene and sanitation while handling food items, corruption, adulteration, and other result in food contamination to a great extent. Therefore, these factors may help the food safety testing market to gain immense growth prospects for the food safety testing market.

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Adulteration levels in the food and beverage industry are of grave concern and to tackle this menace, food testing is an important process. Thus, the food safety testing market is gaining highly on this factor. Furthermore, government initiatives to reduce foodborne diseases will provide a boost to the growth of the food safety testing market.

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The food safety testing market is mildly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic as routine surveillance of farms and food production facilities has been reduced due to the lockdown implementations. The post-pandemic era may hold great importance for the growth of the food safety testing market as many guidelines and regulations are expected to see a transformational change.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has also recommended a list of standards for maintaining food hygiene that assist in the preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus. The changing dietary preferences of a considerable populace due to the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak may further have a positive impact on the growth of the food safety testing market.

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In June, Fare Community Kitchen worked with the YMCA of the East Bay to feed students who were no longer receiving meals at school. Photo: Fare Community Kitchen

Prior to COVID-19, Fare Resources, a food consulting and catering company in Emeryville, earned most of its revenue from feeding tech clients. It created 1,500 meals a day for a few offices across the Bay Area.

These days, Fare Resources is still making 1,500 meals a day, but now its clientele is completely different. Since May 18, its become Fare Community Kitchen, a fiscally sponsored project of San Francisco-based cooking non-profit 18 Reasons, working to feed food-insecure communities.

When we lost all of our office clients, we wanted to find a way to keep things going, said Nina Mendez, the director. We knew there would be a need for food assistance, and the goal became not so much to keep us open, but to make sure food goes to people who need it most.

While disparate wealth and food insecurity have been longstanding problems in the Bay Area, with up to one in eight people being food insecure, Mendez noted that with COVID-19, that statistic will only get worse the longer the pandemic goes on.

Many believe we havent seen the full effects of [COVID-19] on food insecurity yet, she said.

When Fare Community Kitchen launched in May, it donated 900 meals. A week later, it gave away 1,880. It since has donated more than 38,000 meals to community partners in the East Bay, with the largest recipient being the Oakland Unified School District.

With schools being closed, children who qualified for the schools free lunch program were not only without a classroom, they were out what might have been their only full meal for the day. And in a household where a child qualifies for a free meal, the rest of the family is likely food insecure as well. With this in mind, Fare Community Kitchen creates family meals that feed four to six people. The meals are distributed at three public schools in Oakland: Sankofa Academy, Hoover Elementary and International Community School.

Although its customer base has changed, Fare Community Kitchens menu has not. Its new clients are getting exactly the same meals as its former paying clients, such as barbecue chicken with heirloom beans and grilled asparagus, polenta pie with beans and vegetables served with maple-glazed yams and hot sauce, and spaghetti and vegetarian meatballs made from lentils and quinoa with steamed broccoli. Everything is scratch-made, and almost everything is organic. Whatever food Fare Community Kitchen doesnt source from small farms, it gets in a partnership with Food Shift, the Alameda-based nonprofit that diverts food from going to waste.

The feedback were getting from family members is really incredible, said Mendez. Theyre not used to the level of thoughtfulness that goes into our dishes. Unfortunately, theres a much lower bar for food assistance meals. Were putting out the same exact food we put out to our tech clients, as we dont believe they deserve anything less than our paying tech clients. If anything, these people need such high-quality food even more.

Were putting out the same exact food we put out to our tech clients, as we dont believe they deserve anything less than our paying tech clients. Nina Mendez, director of Fare Community Kitchen.

So far, Fare Community Kitchen has partnered with about 12 other nonprofits, mostly smaller, grassroots organizations like Homies Empowerment, East Oakland Grocery Cooperative, East Oakland Collective and the YMCA of the East Bay that are lifelines to the communities they serve. Theyve also dropped off some meals in the Town Fridges that have appeared around town.

Although the company was able to pivot its mission for the times, it also was greatly affected by the pandemic. Fare Resources laid off a portion of its staff, but was able to retain about 26 employees for Fare Community Kitchen, Mendez said.

Wed love to be doing 1,500 meals every day like we were before, and be able to hire back all of our staff, she said. Fare Community Kitchen is currently looking for grants and donations from individual donors to help it reach its goal.

Weve just started looking for major donors, Mendez said. Were hitting the ground running for fundraising, applying for grants, and starting conversations with potential individual donors. We live in an area that has an incredible amount of individual wealth and were doing a good thing that we think is fundable.

Homies Empowerment, a nonprofit afterschool program in Oaklands Eastmont neighborhood, has greatly benefitted from Fare Community Kitchens work.

Two weeks after the shelter-in-place orders, Homies began operating its Peoples Freedom Store, giving away items like diapers, formula, toiletries and food, including fresh produce, flour, salt, sugar, rice and beans.

JP Hailer, coordinator of partnerships with Homies Empowerment said the freedom store serves some 400 families a week. Fare Community Kitchen has provided dry bulk items and organic produce for the store, as well as 20 vegan meals to feed the stores volunteer staff, who are also from within the community.

The meals are really high quality, Hailer said. I often hear the volunteers, and not only overhear how delicious they are, but theyre surprised by the fact that theyre vegan.

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Every day is a reenactment of my book, Resistance Is Futile. Trump does something stupid (or many things) and the media say, We can top that!

Trump fumbles the ball, followed by the media throwing an interception, then Trump commits a personal foul, but the media blows the field goal, then Trump throws the ball out of bounds.

Does anyone want to win this election?

As the country burns, Trump (the president) sits in his bed sending out gratuitously bad-ass tweets ... followed by utter spinelessness. He talks like hes Yosemite Sam, then does nothing. This is the worst of everything. How about saying sweet nothings then stunning them with force!

Trump claims hes the antidote to the mass riots in cities across the country, but what powers will he have after being reelected that he doesnt have right now, while hes already president?

Our only alternative is the party that embraces Black Lives Matter, as The Washington Post admitted, calling Democrats cuddling up to BLM a remarkable development in American politics, as a major party sought to associate itself fully with an emerging protest movement.

So your choice is: a president who denounces riots, looting and violence in the streets, but does nothing, or a president who actively supports the people doing the riots, looting and violence in the streets.

And what can the media say? They denied the riots were even happening, then blamed white supremacists for the violence they said didnt exist. (Is it the Boogaloo Boys or QAnon?) Now the media are calling the riots peaceful protests again, so I guess they know its their side doing the arson and destruction.

Democrats could wallop Trump if the media would just stop lying constantly.

FIVE Trumps spoke at the Republican Convention. You got anything to say about that, media? No, theyre too busy claiming ethics violations because Trumps secretary of state spoke at the convention. That may have violated a norm! A norm, I tell you!

And the medias No. 1 standby for any occasion is to repeat the lie that Trump called neo-Nazis fine people.

That one, they wont give up. The neo-Nazi lie is even crazier than the one about Trump, an incompetent buffoon, orchestrating a vast international conspiracy with Russian intelligence to steal the 2016 presidential election. The Russian collusion story was merely preposterous. The neo-Nazi lie is on tape.

But that lie is the centerpiece of Bidens campaign. When he announced his candidacy, Biden said he was propelled into the race when he saw Trump call neo-Nazis fine people.

Why not because Trump didnt end the carried interest loophole giving billionaire hedge fund managers a minuscule tax rate? Or because Trump never produced an infrastructure bill? Or because hes put his incompetent son-in-law in charge of everything?

Regular people had to post the true Trump quote, including this part: ... and Im not talking about the neo-Nazis and white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally. But you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists ...

Can Joe withdraw now?

No, he doubled-down, repeating the lie in his taped convention speech. Then regular people produced the quote all over again.

The media regularly invoke the neo-Nazi lie in some sort of weird sacramental ritual. And regular people have to keep posting the truth over and over and over again.

If Trump could be locked in the basement like Biden, hed probably be reelected just to spite the media.

There are plenty of things for the media to dunk Trump on, by which I mean things hes actually done as opposed to things the media wish hed done. But no, they have to tell huge stinking lies about him. Even a guilty person can be framed, and thats whats happening to Trump.

The media hysterically denounce Trump for opposing vote-by-mail, smugly announcing that vote-by-mail is exactly the same as absentee voting, as Chuck Todd emphatically stated on MSNBC this week.

Look up the absentee voting requirements in your state right now and see if its the same as having ballots dumped on your doorstep because you or someone who once lived there ever registered to vote.

In New York state, for example, to receive an absentee ballot, you have to fill out an official form stating:

1. Name and date of birth of the voter

2. The address where you are registered

3. An address where the ballot is to be sent

4. The reason for the request, and

5. The signature of the voter

By contrast, with vote-by-mail schemes, ballots are automatically mailed to every eligible voter without any request at all. Ballots will be piled up outside apartment buildings, college dormitories and homeless shelters.

Usually, its conservatives who instinctively lunge for the worst possible argument nah, leave those AK-47s behind, Ive got the water balloons! but with Trump, liberals cant help themselves. Theyd be better off being fairer to him, but their hatred makes that impossible.

The media are forcing people to say, I dont like the guy, but if it will upset The New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker and MSNBC, I have to vote for Trump.

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Alan Endries was among them. When asked what spurred him to make the 40-mile drive from Milwaukee for President Donald Trumps visit to Kenosha on Tuesday, he said he felt empathy for Rittenhouse. I just feel bad for that 17-year-old.

Hes a hero. He stuck up for the population, for property owners, Endries said. He didnt come up here just to shoot people. He came up here to defend himself.

The defense of Rittenhouse by Trump backers reflects the chasm thats opened across the nation in the wake of deadly violence in Kenosha and Portland, Ore. Activists on the left rushed to defend Jacob Blake, a Black man shot seven times in the back by a white police officer, launching a series of demonstrations protesting what they call systemic racism by police.

But many people on the right see a different dominant narrative from Kenosha: A teen who was wrongly charged with homicide and should be lionized. Online crowdfunding petitions have sprouted, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in support of Rittenhouse. And he's gotten a hand from the president himself, who refused this week to denounce the teens actions.

The divisions were on full display Tuesday in Wisconsin, one of the most pivotal swing states in the country. During Trumps visit, his supporters and Black Lives Matter activists clashed in the street along the main government complex near downtown, trading chants of All Lives Matter and Black Lives Matter.

Participants in a community gathering at the site of Jacob Blake's shooting hold a sign in support of justice during speeches Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. | AP Photo/Morry Gash

BLM activists held signs and voiced support for Blake, whose shooting prompted both peaceful protests and destructive riots. Meantime, more than a dozen Trump supporters interviewed Tuesday questioned the case against Rittenhouse, accusing the media of clouding the facts in the case.

Rittenhouse, wielding a military-style weapon that he could not legally carry at his age, shot three protesters, killing two of them. His attorney has said Rittenhouse acted in self-defense.

Rittenhouse was charged as an adult with six criminal counts, including two counts of first-degree murder, for shootings that killed two men, Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and injured a third. In videos of the incidents, Rittenhouse was pursued before he fired his weapon. The criminal complaint filed against Rittenhouse states Rosenbaum threw a plastic bag at him. The footage also shows Huber trying to hit Rittenhouse before he was shot in the chest, perforating his heart, aorta, pulmonary artery and right lung, according to authorities.

You shouldnt put a gun in a childs hand, Shawn Lyons, a Trump supporter from nearby Burlington, said. But it was self-defense, definitely. I think we could have avoided the whole thing if we had the National Guard protecting Kenosha at the time instead of children wondering how their familys business is going to do it with all the mobs.

Free him. Free Kyle, said another man who said he was a Kenosha resident but declined to provide his full name. He was here to protect us.

His friend agreed. Hes a patriot, he was protecting people," said the man, who also declined to give his name. "The people out there are trying to make him look bad. He shot some people thats bad. He killed two people, thats bad, I understand that. But thats our right as American people, to protect ourselves, right?

Rittenhouses interactions with police have drawn scrutiny, particularly when compared with the swift reactions of officers to Black suspects.

J.A. Moore, a Biden supporter and South Carolina lawmaker whose sister was one of nine Black congregants killed at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in 2015, recalled how officers brought fast food to the shooter, Dylann Roof. Moore and others compared that with Kenosha police providing water to Rittenhouse and thanking his armed group just before the shooting last week.

Clashes between racial justice advocates and Trump supporters. Cries of "Black lives matter" met with chants of "all lives matter." POLITICO's Natasha Korecki gives an on-the-ground look at Kenosha.

If he was Black, he would be a thug. But because hes white, hes a young man,' Moore said of how Rittenhouse has been portrayed. Hes not a young man. Hes a murderer.

Rittenhouse has become a cause clbre on the right. Shortly after the shootings, someone tweeted they wanted Rittenhouse to be their bodyguard. Ann Coulter tweeted back that she wanted the teen to be my president. Aubrey Huff, a former baseball player for the San Francisco Giants, hailed him as a national treasure.

And Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host, quickly dedicated time on his program to the Rittenhouse story. Carlson drew fierce backlash when he seemed to justify the shootings by questioning why anybody would be surprised that 17-year-olds with rifles decided they had to maintain order when no one else would?

Carlson was slammed by Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter died in the Parkland, Fla. school shooting in 2018, while others urged his Fox News advertisers to boycott the show.

The rush to defend Rittenhouse prompted a Chicago Sun-Times columnist to ask, "How does a teenage vigilante get to be the hero?"

But right-wing activists and Trump supporters began seizing on new information, including a detailed sequence of the period leading up to the shootings published by The New York Times, to argue that Rittenhouse had no choice but to defend himself. In his first remarks about Rittenhouse, Trump on Monday refused to condemn the shootings and seemed to indicate that they may have been warranted. He also "liked" a tweet offering support for Rittenhouse.

He needs to be in jail, said Jayden Brown, a Kenosha resident who is Black.

Bryan Lanza, who worked on the 2016 campaign and remains close to the White House, lauded Trumps trip to Kenosha and said the celebration of Rittenhouse helps drive a narrative around the president thats helpful to energizing supporters.

The facts will play out, Lanza said. What plays in the burbs is that you have the right to defend yourself and theres no district attorney or attorney general that can take that away from you. If the facts bear out that he had a gun for safety reasons and used it to defend himself because he was attacked, thats a pretty strong case to make.

But other Republicans think Trumps refusal to denounce Rittenhouse including by liking a tweet that said, Kyle Rittenhouse is a good example of why I decided to vote for Trump could backfire. GOP strategist Rob Stutzman said he thinks the rush to support Rittenhouse will repel key segments of voters the president needs.

The image of a dopey delusional kid with an AR-15 isnt comforting to the burbs, Stutzman said. The type of weapon he had I think influences those perceptions.

Rittenhouses attorneys have portrayed him as a good kid who works as a lifeguard, saw that Kenosha was burning, and spoke with a Kenosha business owner before traveling there to help stand guard.

The lawyers did not respond Tuesday to a request for comment. But in previous statements and cable interviews, they said Rittenhouses gun never crossed state lines and was legal in Wisconsin, an open-carry state.

Joe Biden has not spoken in-depth about Rittenhouse, though he said last week he was concerned about armed militias. In a statement Monday after Trumps news conference, Biden criticized the president for refusing to repudiate the Kenosha shootings.

He is too weak, too scared of the hatred he has stirred to put an end to it, Biden said. He urged Trump to join him in saying violence is wrong, period. No matter who does it, no matter what political affiliation they have. Period.

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Senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway leaves position to focus on family, and her husband will also be stepping away from the Lincoln Project. USA TODAY

So who is George Conway, and why should you care?

George Conway is a 57-year-old American attorney and ultra-conservative Republican. Not a RINO (Republican in name only). He is dyed in the wool.

Conway knows Donald Trump. He was on the shortlist for appointment to U.S. solicitor general. He was also recruited for assistant attorney general heading Civil Division in U.S. Department of Justice.

Trump wanted him, because Conway is a star. Conway argued Morrison v. National Australia Bank before the U.S. Supreme Court. He won unanimously with the opinion authored by conservative Justice Antonin Scalia.

Twenty years ago Conway dated conservative Fox News pundit Laura Ingraham. Then he saw Kellyanne Fitzpatrick on the cover of a society magazine and was stunned. He called another friend, Ann Coulter, for an introduction.

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George and Kellyanne were married in 2001, and Kellyanne Fitzgerald became Kellyanne Conway. Today they have four children and live in Washington, DC.

Kellyanne turned out to be no slouch. She is a pollster, political consultant and pundit. She worked as campaign manager and strategist in the Republican Party and was CEO of The Polling Company / Woman Trend. She became Trump's campaign manager when he ran for president.

Up until recently Kellyanne was Trumps counselor and spokesperson. She appeared regularly on Fox News. Thats why you may recognize the Conway name.

Meanwhile George Conway and Neal Katyal, another high-powered lawyer, wrote an op-ed in New York Times challenging the constitutionality of Trump's appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general after Trump fired conservative Jeff Sessions. Conway and Katyal argued Trump was overriding explicit wording in the Constitution.

George Conway sought support from members of the ultra-conservative and libertarian Federalist Society. Members were influential in selecting candidates for Trump to appoint to federal courts. They concluded Trump was betraying well-established legal norms and conservative values.

None of this went down well with Trump.

With Trump suffering from narcissism to the detriment of the country and its Constitution,George Conway founded the Lincoln Project.

This conservative Super PAC wants to Defeat President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box. In fact the Lincoln Project is dedicated to "persuading enough disaffected conservatives, Republicans and Republican-leaning independents in swing states and districts to help ensure a victory in the Electoral College, and congressional majorities that dont enable or abet Mr. Trumps violations of the Constitution".

Contrary to what Trump has tweeted, the Lincoln Project is hard right, conservative, libertarian, rule-of-law, and Constitution-based.

Trump has called George Conway a "stone cold LOSER & husband from hell".

Trump has publicly called George Conway Moonface. This racial slur is based on George Conway being half Filipino. His mother was a well-respected organic chemist from the Philippines.

George Conway grew up near Boston, graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude, and obtained a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. Thats where he was editor of Yale Law Journal and president of Yale Law Schools chapter of the ultra-conservative Federalist Society.

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Several weeks ago, conservative Republican George Conway made a statement regarding COVID-19 and Trumps responsibility to the American people. Here it is:

"For Trump supporters, let me make one thing VERY clear!

For the record NO ONE is blaming the President for the virus. Let me repeat. Coronavirus is not Trumps fault.

Heres a detailed list of what we are blaming him for:

* Trump declined to use the World Health Organizations test like other nations. Back in January, over a month before the first Covid-19 case, the Chinese posted a new mysterious virus and within a week, Berlin virologists had produced the first diagnostic test. By the end of February, the WHO had shipped out tests to 60 countries. Oh, but not our government. We declined the test even as a temporary bridge until the CDC could create its own test. The question is why? We dont know but what to look for is which pharmaceutical company eventually manufactures the test and who owns the stock. Keep tuned.

* In 2018 Trump fired Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossart, whose job was to coordinate a response to global pandemics. He was not replaced.

* In 2018 Dr. Luciana Borio, the NSC director for medical and bio-defense preparedness left the job. Trump did not replace Dr. Borio.

* In 2019 the NSCs Senior Director for Global Health Security and bio-defense, Tim Ziemer, left the position and Trump did not replace the Rear Admiral.

* Trump shut down the entire Global Health Security and Bio-defense agency. Yes, he did.

* Amid the explosive worldwide outbreak of the virus Trump proposed a 19% cut to the budget of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention plus a 10% cut to Public Health Services and a 7% cut to Global Health Services. Those happen to be the organizations that respond to public health threats.

* In 2018, at Trumps direction, the CDC stopped funding epidemic prevention activities in 39 out of 49 countries including China.

* Trump didnt appoint a doctor to oversee the US response to the pandemic. He appointed Mike Pence.

* Trump has on multiple occasions sowed doubt about the severity of the virus even using the word hoax at events and rallies. He even did it at an event where the virus was being spread. Trump has put out zero useful information concerning the health risks of the virus.

* Trump pretended the virus had been contained.

* Trump left a cruise ship at sea for days, denying them proper hospital care, rather than increase his numbers in America.

Repeat. We do not blame Trump for the virus. We blame him for gutting the nations preparations to deal with it. We blame him for bungling testing and allowing it to spread uninhibited. We blame him for wasting taxpayer money on applause lines at his rallies (like The Wall). We blame him for putting his own political life over American human life. I hope this clears things up."

This is not a liberal speaking. These are the words of George Conway and members of the ultra-conservative libertarian Federalist Society.

Bill Gindlesperger is a central Pennsylvanian, Shippensburg University trustee and founder of eLynxx Solutions that provides Print Buyers Software for procuring and managing direct mail, marketing, promo and print. He is a board member, campaign advisor, published author and commentator. He can be reached at Bill.Gindlesperger@eLynxx.com

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If youre wondering how to meditate, theres a good chance its because youve heard all sorts of things about how good it can be for you. People love to suggest meditation for a variety of reasons: to reduce stress and anxiety, to ease depression, to put you to sleep, to make you feel more present, to magically transform you into a better, more grounded human being. The claims go on and on. And while the benefits of meditation have been greatly exaggerated in a lot of ways, plenty of people find it to be a worthwhile practice and we agree. With everything going on in the world, its a solid time to explore meditation and whether it might be useful for you too.

Meditation may seem simpleand in many ways, it isbut people are often unsure where to start and whether theyre doing it correctly. To help you learn how to meditate and integrate it into your life, SELF asked meditation experts some of your most common meditation questions.

First things first, there are many different kinds of meditation. Meditation is generally used as a broad umbrella term that covers a wide array of contemplative practices, many of which are drawn from Buddhist traditions but have often been adapted and secularized for application in Western society, neuroscientist Wendy Hasenkamp, Ph.D., science director at the Mind & Life Institute and visiting professor of contemplative sciences at the University of Virginia, previously told SELF.

With that in mind, the questions of what meditation is and how to meditate arent exactly straightforward ones. Its kind of like asking how to play sports, Diana Winston, the director of mindfulness education at the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center and the author of The Little Book of Being, tells SELF. Just like there are many types of sports, there are many types of meditation, she says. And just like different sports share important things in common (like competition and physical activity), meditation has core tenets too. I define meditation as any practice that cultivates inward investigation, says Winston.

For this article, were going to focus mostly on mindfulness meditation. Why? A few reasons. For one, mindfulness is at the heart of many different types of meditation. Plus, its very accessible to beginners and has the most convincing body of evidence regarding its mental health benefits (more on that later). Its also a very popular form of meditation, especially in recent years. Chances are, if youre interested in developing a meditation practice to support your mental health, the type of meditation youre thinking of is mindfulness meditation.

Like meditation, theres no single universal definition of mindfulness, but experts generally agree on the gist: focusing on the present moment with openness and without judgment. If you check in on your mind at any point during the day, youll probably notice you're thinking about the past or thinking about the future, or youre generally planning, obsessing, worrying, and catastrophizing, says Winston. Mindfulness is getting in the practice of pulling our minds away from these places to come back to the present moment. And so, mindfulness meditation is the formal practice of cultivating mindfulness.

If all that sounds like a little abstract for you, consider that youve probably meditatedor at least felt meditativeat some point in your life. In my classes, I always tell my skeptical beginners to share their favorite hobby, Laurasia Mattingly, a meditation and mindfulness teacher based in Los Angeles, tells SELF. Then I tell them that theyve meditated before. Any activity that allows you to be fully present without worrying about the future or the past is a doorway into meditation.

Heres where things get a little tricky. The proven scientific benefits of mindfulness meditation are hard to sum up (so much so that SELF has a whole separate explainer on it). The TL;DR is that there are three conditions with a strong and convincing body of evidence to support the effects of meditation: depression, anxiety, and chronic pain. Meaning, a not insignificant amount of meta-reviews and meta-analyses have found that mindfulness meditation can moderately help with symptoms associated with these conditions (or in the case of chronic pain, how people cope with symptoms, at least). For a full breakdown of what we do and dont know about the health benefits of mindfulness meditation, check out this article.

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By now we have all downloaded the mindfulness app Headspace, tried it four times, breathlessly told all our friends we are into meditation now and no, really, you should try it and I dont even need coffee in the mornings now! and then forgotten to do it one day when we were meant to be doing it because we had too many emails to answer, then turning our phone over when the little reminder notification came in, then, three months later, realising weve been paying 9.99 a month to not use an app and then, two more months after that, quietly deleting the whole thing and never meditating again and wondering distantly why our sleep has been so disordered for so long. By now we have all done that.

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Hmm, though: what if Headspace was on television? You just imagined Mindful Escapes: Breathe, Release, Restore (Monday to Thursday, 7pm, BBC Four), which is Headspace on television. Whats interesting about TV is it has the potential to be a near limitlessly creative format, and yet what we do with that is make five soaps, two reality shows and one hard drama every year then fill the rest of the time with Come Dine With Me repeats. How often do you sit down in front of the TV and go: Wow, this is different! This is unlike anything Ive ever, ever seen!? Exactly.

Mindful Escapes isnt going to make you do that, either, but its going to make you think about doing it. The show in brief: Headspace co-founder and business monk Andy Puddicombe soothingly narrates over the top of some leftover Attenborough nature footage, and that is meant to be relaxing. On the surface this is a completely new and innovative way of using the format of television, but the result is like a motivational quote that happens to move. Andy tells you the earth is a living, breathing object as a fern curls out of the soil. He tells you breath is an important facet of the mind as an eagle soars over an icy vista. Clouds part to reveal a river. You hear the sound of rain turning to snow, the sound of water lazily pooling. Andy Puddicombe says something about breathing again. The sun dapples gently through the canopy. You dont have to check your emails. Your emails can probably wait, most of them.

Does it work? Youre sort of asking the wrong person I once had to leave a session in a flotation tank 12 minutes into my allotted hour because the sensation of bobbing in the salted water and staring at a curved purple pod ceiling that looked like the inside of a testicle made me hysterical, so I towelled off and went to the pub instead but the short answer is no, not really. I mean, its recycled nature footage with the Headspace bloke occasionally saying breathe over the top of it. Its quite relaxing for a while, but you could make that argument for watching paint dry, and people are always ragging on that.

If you are really, really stressed, I would obviously prescribe you half an hour of BBC Four with some soothing cooing over the top of it and, fair play, it would absolutely blast if you put it on a projector at the winding down time of a house party but its not really an event to gather the family round for. Maybe we should just stick to the dull, familiar limits of TV. Theres a reason why the old classics still hit.

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Mindful Escapes: the Headspace meditation app, but on television - The Guardian