GMOs & FOOD, WATER & SOIL MATTERS

I don't want this stuff here except in a lab environment, and I sure don't want us held accountable for forcing it on the rest of the world the way these companies are serving us and our livestock an unlabled Mickey Finn. One thing depends and affects another in life and these scientist are far from having all the peices of life's puzzle working together the right way. They could make a very dangerous plan not using all the interdependent pieces and making sure they work as they should.

Then there is always the question about nature does this all for free so why would we pay some few people to play with this, and maybe even damage the balance irreversibly for many species and we might be one of those?

Yes there is new non-GMO research and here is some of the good news!

Wonder how many lobby dollars the folks along the keystone route cam up with for ads?

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"The Harper government has increased its advertising spending on the Alberta tar sands to $16.5m from $9m a year ago.

The Canadian Press news agency, which first reported on the increase in advertising spending by the Department of Natural Resources, said the television advertising was just one part of a broad promotion for tar sands.

It said the Canadian government was planning another big advertising buy in America aimed at winning White House approval for the Keystone XL pipeline project and promoting exports of crude oil from the Alberta tar sands."

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Organic apples from Argentina, tomatoes from Spain – when looking at the assortment in German organic supermarkets, consumers are easily confused. Even though one might want to make ecologically correct and sustainable decisions when shopping, many of the fruits and vegetables have travelled a long way, leaving a considerable carbon footprint. German grocers are not just importing the exotic produce such as bananas and mangoes that are impossible to grow in Germany, but also potatoes, apples and cucumbers, as well as pork and dairy products.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? Should the cost of planting an acre go up 325% in less than twenty years? Is this the promised way to feed the poor or is it really meant to starve them. Poor have often survived by raising food and trading extra produce. I think all of Monsanto and other biotech companies are a curse on the planet and to mankind and all species on the planet. These companies and others have totally corrupted many national governments all the way to the top to render them basically useless to govern in the interest of the people in nearly every nation. These business and government leaders need to be sent to The Hague as individuals for crimes against all people of the planet. ….and if there is no justice left and Mob will can do it history proves and eventually the army that is always made of the masses eventually turns to take down their enemies. NO one in history has ever tried to own everything that gives life to everything else nor should that ever happen. These judges are not just if they allow inhumane laws to stand. They should have stricken down the right to patent life.

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The decision will be seen as a big defeat for those who had looked to Bowman's case to challenge the growing power over modern farming that is wielded by giant agricultural and biotech firms. By the start of this year, Monsanto had filed 144 lawsuits against 466 farmers and small farm businesses alleging patent infringement, according to a report from the Centre for Food Safety which has championed Bowman's case.

The report noted that three big companies now control more than half of the global seed market – a position that has sent prices soaring. The report said the average cost of planting an acre of soybeans had risen 325% between 1995 and 2011.

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"Gathering and analysing data from the three-decade-long International Waterbird Census, the researchers found many birds were staying closer to their summer breeding grounds all year round."

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"Pick any city, any industry, any business, any government and you will find that most of the spending on climate change comes after the disaster, not in anticipation of it. The U.S. Congress authorized more than $60-billion to pay for Hurricane Sandy’s damage last year. In other words, there is no hedging for volatility.

Take agriculture. Farmers are well aware that climate change is turning their growing and harvesting seasons into crap shoots because of the alarming frequency of droughts, floods and extreme cold and heat. The drought of 2012 in the United States, one of the worst on record, slaughtered corn and soybean yields in the Midwest. Suppose that were to happen again, choking off agricultural exports. Food shortages could develop in some countries or regions, including Canada, if the drought were severe north of the border.
 

All over the globe many are concerned about our environment and this may one day soon turn the tendency to let profit speak louder than reality.

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The ministry suggested counter-measures to help mitigate the plant's effect on the environment.

The measures include protecting fish habitats in tributaries, building fish ladders and increasing fish breeding and releasing, as well as constructing seed banks for rare plants and cultivating them artificially.

Here's the list of creatures many may never see for long as they continue to die.

This was in the news this week. The number has to hold for a certain amount of time  to be the average, but it looks like it's well on it's way to holding at 400 ppm or more.

We will miss them when they are gone and the world just won't be the amazingly diverse place it is today. Our children won't know what richness they have lost and we traded for cheap stuff to fill landfills.

This is an article about making plastics from new plants rather than dead ones from thousands of years ago. I thought this was interesting. I was not aware of this type of plastic product or maybe just wasn't thinking about where plastic comes from other than oil wells.

I have several different reactions to this. One is...  Wow I'm eating things that make this plastic. I rarely thought about that when plastics came from oil out of the ground way below. That oil actually started as live plants and animals too when you think about it in the broader since.

Another concern would be which is more important to grow the vegetation for food and habitat or to run cars and make plastics that seem to rarely biodegrade well?

Could we just get serious about recycling plastics and that way keep them out of the ocean and land fields and also not need to continue to use up habitat and food acres just to make fresh what we have been throwing out often after using it for ten minutes to drink some water, hold some trash or prevent drips from leaky babies? 

The other question I think about a lot and this begs the same question too, is how can people earn a living without money? How do we make a living and live in a way that does not require using up all our planet's resources and our time on earth to go to work to have money. This does not mean that I don't like working, because I do and very much too. There is just much work that I have to squeeze in and many seem never to get time or energy to even do that. I think working with your own home, family, friends, for your own fitness, working to learn new skills or expand old talents and interest or even read often are all work as well. I rarely see work as a negative thing when it's balanced, which these days for many it does not seem to be. These other very important jobs should not be put off till the kids have gone and our friends, family, are gone, and our homes are so neglected in many ways and I'm not speaking of just cleaning and landscaping.  We don't need to be waiting till we retire and are often too old or used up to do these very important jobs in life that often cost rather than pay.

There will never be enough jobs for everyone even if everyone is smart enough to do them, so unless we are planning to kick things back to the middle ages and continue to fight lots of wars, let sick people die from curable illnesses...So what now and with that in mind how do we redesign our lives and living for the 22nd century and on and start that life in the 21st right now?