Jill Richardson
publishes a letter
from Col. (Ret.) Don M. Huber,
Emeritus Professor, Purdue University,
who is
APS Coordinator, USDA National Plant Disease Recovery System (NPDRS).
It begins:
Dear Secretary Vilsack:
A team of senior plant and animal scientists have recently brought to
my attention the discovery of an electron microscopic pathogen that
appears to significantly impact the health of plants, animals, and
probably human beings. Based on a review of the data, it is widespread,
very serious, and is in much higher concentrations in Roundup Ready (RR)
soybeans and corn-suggesting a link with the RR gene or more likely the
presence of Roundup. This organism appears NEW to science!
The documentary points out many products in German stores that
include GM soy.
In Argentina, it’s even worse, with increasing numbers of birth defects.
They interview
Prof. Andrés Carrasco about his research on amphibians:
“The hemispheres do not separate, like you can see here.
If you look closely you can see one brain.
Glyphosate can cause this kind of mechanisms, for it is an enzymatic toxin.”
“To human cells glyphosate is already toxic in a very low dose.
A farmer uses a much higher dose on the field.
Roundup is even more toxic than glysophate,
for that is only one of the ingredients in Roundup.”
Roundup says none of this applies to humans and Roundup is safe.
Seralini
says:
Who should you believe?
A corporation repeatedly convicted of deception,
or scientists who say that GM crops
cause liver and kidney damage in animals,
according to research using Monsanto’s own data.
Even as traditional environmentalism struggles, another movement is
rising in its place, aligning consumers, producers, the media and even
politicians. It’s the food movement, and if it continues to grow it may be
able to create just the sort of political and social transformation that
environmentalists have failed to achieve in recent years. That would mean
not only changing the way Americans eat and the way they farm — away
from industrialized, cheap calories and toward more organic, small-scale
production, with plenty of fruits and vegetables — but also altering
the way we work and relate to one another. To its most ardent adherents,
the food movement isn’t just about reform — it’s about revolution.
Food is something that affects everybody, and now that people are
starting to realize that the mainstream food supply is poisoned:
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Whenever possible
we us[sic] local meats, cheese and produce to provide our diners
with fresh and dynamic flavors.
Local products from the likes of Gayla’s Grits, Horner Farms,
Sweet Grass Dairy
and Thompson Farms allow Charlie Tripper’s
to serve delicious and local farmstead fare year round.
Menus are subject to change in order
to accommodate seasonality and availability.
4479 North Valdosta Road
Valdosta, Georgia, 31602
229-247-0366
The Atlanta-based burrito chain will roll out a new nationwide menu on
Jan. 24, top executives told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Coming
soon to 420-plus restaurants will be grass-fed sirloin steak with no added
hormones. The pork will be hormone-free, steroid-free and grain-fed. Moe’s
says its chicken will be hormone-free and not raised in cages, and the
tofu will be organic.
Sounds good to me.
Why are they doing this?
“The Moe’s consumers have told us this is something they want,” said Paul
Damico, president of the brand. “We take that information seriously. They
tell us they want fresh, they want sustainable.”
Voting at the checkout counter works!
They have three locations in Valdosta:
1525 Baytree Rd.
Valdosta, GA 31602
(229) 293-0663
3145 North Ashley Street
Valdosta, GA 31602
(229) 333-0649
1500 Patterson Street
Valdosta, GA 31698
229-259-2506
An insecticide used in genetically modified (GM) crops grown extensively
in the United States and other parts of the world has leached into the
water of the surrounding environment.
The insecticide is the product of a bacterial gene inserted into GM
maize and other cereal crops to protect them against insects such as
the European corn borer beetle. Scientists have detected the insecticide
in a significant number of streams draining the great corn belt of the
American mid-West.
The researchers detected the bacterial protein in the plant detritus that
was washed off the corn fields into streams up to 500 metres away. They
are not yet able to determine how significant this is in terms of the
risk to either human health or the wider environment.
West African farmers have succeeded in cutting the use of toxic
pesticides, increasing yields and incomes and diversifying farming systems
as a result of an international project promoting sustainable farming
practices.
Due to discussion on facebook with Rihard Sexton after
the previous post,
I dug around a bit,
and discovered that beautyberry (Callicarpa americana) is also known as
dwarf mulberry, French mulberry,
and Spanish mulberry, sow berry, and sour berry.
That last is especially a misnomer, because its berries are not sour,
they taste like flowers.
And it turns out that beautyberry was mentioned in books before 1800,
it was just mentioned as dwarf mulberry:
Further, William Bartram did mention it in his Travels of 1791, as
French mulberry.
Curiously, even though Google books does have Bartram’s book,
ngrams doesn’t seem to show French mulberry for that date,
but does show American mulberry.
Even more curious, William Bartram’s father, John Bartram,
corresponded with Linnaeus, the founder of modern
botanical terminology.
The currently most popular name is beautyberry, which turns out to
be related to the scientific genus name, Callicarpa: Greek kalli
means beautiful, and Karpos means fruit.
Monsanto’s Roundup, the agro-toxic companion herbicide for millions of
acres of GM soybeans, corn, cotton, alfalfa, canola, and sugar beets,
is losing market share. Its overuse has spawned a new generation of
superweeds that can only be killed with super-toxic herbicides such as
2,4, D and paraquat. Moreover, patented “Roundup Ready” crops require
massive amounts of climate destabilizing nitrate fertilizer. Compounding
Monsanto’s damage to the environment and climate, rampant Roundup use
is literally killing the soil, destroying essential soil microorganisms,
degrading the living soil’s ability to capture and sequester CO2,
and spreading deadly plant diseases.
In just one year, Monsanto has moved from being Forbes’ “Company
of the Year” to the
Worst Stock of the Year. The Biotech Bully of
St. Louis has become one of the most hated corporations on Earth.
The article mentions scientific studies about bad health effects
of genetically modified foods,
and goes on to warn of Monsanto maneuverings through the EPA
and the Gates Foundation.
Then he points to the European Union as leading the way:
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Jill Richardson
publishes a letter
from Col. (Ret.) Don M. Huber,
Emeritus Professor, Purdue University,
who is
APS Coordinator, USDA National Plant Disease Recovery System (NPDRS).
It begins:
