Posted on 04/25/2025 4:19:11 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Not glyphosate — congenital. :-)
The result of a legal system where easily manipulated, public school educated jurors are entrusted with deciding what causes cancer.
What are you, a poison pusher by profession?
Most of the developed world manages to feed itself with significantly less poisoning and distortion of its food supply.
We’ve gone way overboard and do need to pull back significantly from the chemical monoculture approach that has so degraded our farmland—and our people.
Thanks.
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Amazing job by @NIH team.
Saved > $4B annually in excessive grant administrative costs. https://t.co/ICLlcJxp8V— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 7, 2025
Today, @NIH cancelled the following grants:
- $620K for “an LGB+ inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys”
- $699K for studying “cannabis use” among “sexual minority gender diverse individuals”
- $740K for examining “social networks” among “black and…— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) March 12, 2025
Other grant examples from @NIH:
- $100K for Vanderbilt University to study “social networks” among “sexual and gender minorities”
- $37K for the University of Houston to study “fear of deportation” in “Latinx young adults”
- $681K for the University of Pennsylvania to study… https://t.co/TXLRjtIRwf— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) March 13, 2025
Yesterday, @NIH cancelled seven grants for transgender experiments on animals including:
- $532K to “use a mouse model to investigate the effects of cross-sex testosterone treatment”
- $33K to test “feminizing hormone therapy in the male rat”— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) March 5, 2025
Today NIH canceled grants for ~$10.9 million including:
-$1.7M for the “China Health and Retirement Longitudinal study” at Peking University in Beijing, China
-$135K for a research grant to China Medical University in Shenyang, China
-$142K for “using telehealth to improve access…— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) March 1, 2025
In the past 48 hours, HHS canceled 62 contract worth $182 million. These contracts were entirely for administrative expenses – none touched any healthcare programs. This included terminating a $168,000 contract for an Anthony Fauci exhibit at the NIH Museum. pic.twitter.com/EsZxflPS6w— Department of Government Efficiency (@DOGE) February 7, 2025
Grok says “Wheat grain treated with glyphosate pre-harvest is almost always non-viable for planting. Glyphosate kills the plant’s metabolic processes, making seeds unable to germinate reliably. Farmers use certified, untreated seed instead.”
Thanks. I was applying that question to control of weeds with green seeds, some of which have been remarkably persistent. But with changes wrought by me, such as removing trees or burning weeds and brush, one wonders at the consequent germination. Yes, burning and sunlight do make big differences in dormant seed expression, the karrakinolide hormones in smoke being key.
Our generation’s DDT.
The average size of a French farm is 170 acres, less than half the U.S. average of 464 acres. That size is comparable to those of farms in Ohio (171 acres) or Virginia (187 acres). French farms are larger than the average for England (123 acres), the Netherlands (79 acres) or Ireland (104 acres). France remains self-sufficient in food production, although the French farmers are plagued by the "green" regulations stemming from Paris and Brussels.
Well I guess technically it's sprayed on weeds around the house, but it's still not good for bees or environment.
Bayer is unwilling to go after the creeps claiming they have tests. Go after them personally, sue them.
The seed bank of weeds in the soil is remarkable. Some plants are incredibly prolific generating seeds and the seeds remain viable in the soil for years. I’ve got a weed called “poa annua” in our lawn that is like that. Very difficult to eradicate.
"Seed coat ecology" is now a scientific field, and it's complicated. Microbial components modify cycles of dormancy for example.
Our property adjoins what was originally an Indian trade route that then became an El Camino between Spanish missions. That road became the first wagon road across the Santa Cruz Mountains in 1851. It was terraced for an apple orchard in the early 20th Century with that exotic seed bank harrowed in every year. When that orchard was abandoned in the mid 1930s it was invaded by trees. Effectively, it was "preserved" for the next 50 years. By then, it was down to only 60 species of plants. 80% of native plants, documented to be in this immediate area, were no longer reproducing. Now, after 35 years' restoration work, we are up to nearly 400.
So I had to learn a thing or two about the seed bank. It's not what they think. It was "weed bank" more than seed bank. After over 200 years of abuse, our native seed bank, for the most part, was nearly dead.
Yet at the same time there have been big surprises. When I started it was thought grass seed for example only remained viable for a few years, and perhaps that is true of commercial seed in bags. Yet I have found grasses germinating after at least 50 years of cover, and in one case, perhaps much longer than that. So there is a lot yet to learn about seed dormancy. One thing I have learned is the role of karrakinolides in smoke in breaking seed dormancy. It has become a very useful tool in using pre-emergence herbicides to cull much of that exotic weed bank.
I guess I wasn’t clear:
I meant DOGE re “follow the $$” flowing INTO the pockets of those within (fauxi et al).
Adding to my [#3] point—thanks.
Worse, we are seeing more and more foreigners in lawfare—especially in IMMIGRATION LAW.
You wrote “After over 200 years of abuse, our native seed bank, for the most part, was nearly dead.”
From what I’ve read, weren’t most of California’s native plants perennials, not annuals? Aren’t most (all?) of the annual grassy weeds non-native invaders?
During the LA fires, I read that the perennials stayed moist and fire resistant throughout the entire year make such raging wildfires much less likely. The invasion of annual grasses is what made the huge conflagrations possible.
Of course, the oily chaparral still burned, but, without the annual grasses, the fires were probably smaller.
I’d love to see your place sometime! Do you offer tours? It sounds like an incredible labor of love. It must be hard to recognize that, without your care and tending, it will revert quickly once you are gone.
Counted by species perhaps, but not by counts of individuals. BTW, I'd be dubious about what is in print.
Aren’t most (all?) of the annual grassy weeds non-native invaders? Absolutely, most of which are from North Africa.
>i>During the LA fires, I read that the perennials stayed moist and fire resistant throughout the entire year make such raging wildfires much less likely. The invasion of annual grasses is what made the huge conflagrations possible.
Nonsense. What made the conflagrations possible was a lack of vegetation management.
The big problem remains with academic prattle is that they are still dominated by the Memoir of Francisco Palou, who had systematically redacted mentions of Indian burning (and grizzly bears) from the original diarist of the Portola Expedition, Juan Crespi. Palou's intent was clearly to attract Mexican ranchers to relocate to California del Norte. If you want the best account of that first work of real estate fraud, there is no better synthesis of first contact accounts as combined with inferences from the patterns of recovering plants than the Wildergarten site history.
By appointment only. FReepmail me.
It must be hard to recognize that, without your care and tending, it will revert quickly once you are gone.
I'm trying to set it up as a teaching institute. There is important work to be done that can only be done here.
“the Memoir of Francisco Palou, who had systematically redacted mentions of Indian burning (and grizzly bears) from the original diarist of the Portola Expedition, Juan Crespi. Palou’s intent was clearly to attract Mexican ranchers to relocate to California del Norte.”
That’s very interesting! Thanks.
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