Elon Musk’s farmhand robots can’t come soon enough.
What? Anyone should know this is ridiculous. One in six children does not have cancer. One in six children does not have a bout with cancer growing up.
These people are going to lead us straight into a major famine.
“Prominent farmworker activist and organizer Dolores Huerta..”
Never heard of her.
Rachel Carson never died.
WITHOUT PESTICIDES-—THERE IS NO CROP TO WORK ON, DUMMY.
HAVED YOU EVER SEEN AN INVASION OF “ARMY WORMS”???
I HAVE—_WHEN I WAS A KID ON A DAIRY FARM IN WISCONSIN.
THEY CRAWL ACROSS THE LANDSCAPE-—EATING ANYTHING & EVERYTHING.
ALFALFA/CORN/OATS/GARDEN/LAWN GRASS/PASTURE
SOME PEOPLE CANNOT EVEN FIND THE DOTS-—MUCH LESS CONNECT THE DOTS
BUT WHO WILL PICK THE CROPS?
she’s right.
Now why is the fake news pushing this now................
You notice she’s not down in Mehico’ complaining.
American beekeepers lost between 50 - 70 percent of their bee colonies last year due to pesticides and disease. No bees, no pollination, no food! Just say no to those “DIY home kits” and use natural methods of pest control that doesn’t kill our pollinators!
Our food chain really IS an absolute MESS! I Stand With RFK! (Jr.)
Putting in a PLUG here for our Monthly Garden Thread. Grow Your Own! Come Join Us! Save Yourselves, LOL!
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4314384/posts
For anyone that cares, the most pesticide-filled veggies and fruits that you normally buy at the grocery store are:
Strawberries
Spinach
Kale & Collards
Grapes
Peaches
Pears
Nectarines
Apples
Bell & Hot Peppers
Cherries
Blueberries
Green Beans
The ‘cleanest’ vegetables that you can buy are also at this link:
https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/full-list.php
Full Disclosure: My Piggly Wiggly had the Driscolls-brand Strawberries on sale (Buy 1 Get 1 FREE) a few weeks back. That is the brand this woman is fighting with. They were the most luscious, DELICIOUS, red-to-the-core actually-tasted-like-strawberries I have had in a very long time, other than out of my own Strawberry Patch. So, a few bugs died due to pesticide use. I hate bugs. What do they contribute? Other than Pollinators and ‘Good Bugs’ that are predators to the Bad Bugs, what do they deliver to Mankind? ;)
The authors make a pretty convincing argument that a lot of what was broadly labeled "polio" in the first half of the twentieth century was actually paralysis caused by pesticides.
Here is a book for families wanting to grow pesticide free foods.
Ag pesticide, in particularly insecticides, use affects the entire environment. It’s literally wiping out the pollinators, from honey bees to many species of butterflies and many other beneficial insects; parasitic wasps, carnivorous species that feed on pest insects etc. For instance, imadiclorpid, an insecticide that translocates through out the plant and is used extensively in American agriculture and for termite control of residential and commercial buildings. In agriculture, it also concentrates in the flowers and that’s where it affects the pollinators. If there is no direct application contact on the pollinating species, the pollinators come in contact with it when they collect pollen from the flowers and it kills them too. This particular insecticide is active in the plant for up to 15 days. Europe and many other countries have banned its use, they recognized the ruin it was having on non target species. It needs to be banned here in the USA but the big AG Chem industry owns those who could and should ban its use.
I used some killer stuff on carpenter bees today. Dropped ‘em like they’d been pole axed.
Drill holes in my barn? I don’t think so. Every year, they never learn. Stupid bees.
Bring back DDT. After running behind mosquito spray trucks in the 1950s I am still doing well at 78 years of age.
Is Dolores Huerta any relation to SEIU California’s David Huerta, riot supporter?