Sunday #1
So was Earth Day good to you? How does shutting the power off in your house cure the world's environmental problems - it doesn't, but you can join the herd and do it.
Being captive to the radio for hours on end does give one plenty of intersting things to listen to. Late night talk radio, on Friday night featured a section on the ways of Monsanto and Dow Chemical's ambitions to control the world's food supply through the use of Genetically Engineered seeds. These seeds have built-in pesticides, as the plants are not sturdy enough to survive in a quasi-natural state. These built in pesticides are killing the bees and bats that used to pollinate the natural seeds. Silly animals they can't tell the difference between robot seeds and natural ones so they just flit from plant to plant, unfortunately ingesting lethal doses of poison.
In another side of the argument, not content to destroy the environment these giants of industry have manipulated the price of seeds to rip off the taxpayer. In a recently instituted price hike the amount of the price hike was equivalent to the government subsidy for growing the crop. Farmers are now locked into these suppliers through manipulative seed contracts and are faced with ruin from high seed prices and low farm prices. Watch out for our food supply and leave the bloody lights on!
Being captive to the radio for hours on end does give one plenty of intersting things to listen to. Late night talk radio, on Friday night featured a section on the ways of Monsanto and Dow Chemical's ambitions to control the world's food supply through the use of Genetically Engineered seeds. These seeds have built-in pesticides, as the plants are not sturdy enough to survive in a quasi-natural state. These built in pesticides are killing the bees and bats that used to pollinate the natural seeds. Silly animals they can't tell the difference between robot seeds and natural ones so they just flit from plant to plant, unfortunately ingesting lethal doses of poison.
In another side of the argument, not content to destroy the environment these giants of industry have manipulated the price of seeds to rip off the taxpayer. In a recently instituted price hike the amount of the price hike was equivalent to the government subsidy for growing the crop. Farmers are now locked into these suppliers through manipulative seed contracts and are faced with ruin from high seed prices and low farm prices. Watch out for our food supply and leave the bloody lights on!
3 comments:
Funny Ben. I've seen several reports on the problem of the bee population dropping - but none blame it on GM seeds! One credible report blamed it on a mite (since you might not allow URLs here, Google "Tiny mite responsible for bee colony deaths" to get my source from CTV). When you blame someone or something that might be disputed, it's good manners to provide your source.
John
Try this report, it is by the woman on the radioshow, "Coast to Coast".
http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1686&category=Environment
You may not agree with this because she links GE seeds to the collapse of animal/insect populations, but she does make the link.
"I believe there is new evidence of bees being exposed to these systemic seed treatments in the early part of the growing season that is weakening the bees’ immune system, disrupting their neurological systems so they can’t navigate their way back to the hive, which is a signature characteristic of Colony Collapse Disorder (empty colonies). I think the seed treatment residues could be impacting many other non-target organisms from bats to frogs to insects."
I read all the links, and there is no evidence whatsoever that the seeds are the cause of bee degeneration. Worth investigating though.
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