Anheuser-Busch InBev, the leading producer of beer as stated by the Brewers Association (2017), operates a dozen breweries, seventeen distributorships and twenty-three agricultural and packaging facilities across the United States (Brewbound n.d.), where two million, eight hundred thousand gallons of beer was brewed in 2015 (Statista n.d.). In the end, Anheuser-Busch InBev represents a capital investment of more than $15.9 billion dollars annually (Brewbound n.d.).
According to Douglas E. Betts (n.d.), thirty-five pounds of barley malt, fifteen pounds of grain, eight to thirteen ounces of hops and two pounds of brewer’s yeast (Betts n.d.; Neuzil 2008), along with more or less one hundred and fifty-five gallons of water (Satran 2014) depending …show more content…
Specific ones are used at different stages of growing and include: glyphosate, ethoprop, and azadirachtin, just to name a few. Grossman (2015) stated the U.S. Geological Survey sampled waterways in thirty-eight states and found glyphosate in the majority of rivers, streams, ditches and wastewater and treatment plants. She goes on to add that it has also been found in the blood and urine of farmworkers, chromosomal damage in cells, increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in some people exposed and tumor formations in some animal studies (Grossman 2015). Several Counties such as Malta, Sir Lanka, The Netherlands and Argentina have banned the use of glyphosate where the EU Parliament wants to restrict the use of the chemical by non-professionals, use in public areas such as parks and playgrounds, also for agricultural use where integrated pest management systems are sufficient for weed control in addition to strict limits on pre-harvest use on crops (Sustainable Pulse
According to Douglas E. Betts (n.d.), thirty-five pounds of barley malt, fifteen pounds of grain, eight to thirteen ounces of hops and two pounds of brewer’s yeast (Betts n.d.; Neuzil 2008), along with more or less one hundred and fifty-five gallons of water (Satran 2014) depending …show more content…
Specific ones are used at different stages of growing and include: glyphosate, ethoprop, and azadirachtin, just to name a few. Grossman (2015) stated the U.S. Geological Survey sampled waterways in thirty-eight states and found glyphosate in the majority of rivers, streams, ditches and wastewater and treatment plants. She goes on to add that it has also been found in the blood and urine of farmworkers, chromosomal damage in cells, increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in some people exposed and tumor formations in some animal studies (Grossman 2015). Several Counties such as Malta, Sir Lanka, The Netherlands and Argentina have banned the use of glyphosate where the EU Parliament wants to restrict the use of the chemical by non-professionals, use in public areas such as parks and playgrounds, also for agricultural use where integrated pest management systems are sufficient for weed control in addition to strict limits on pre-harvest use on crops (Sustainable Pulse