Posted on 02/01/2011 7:11:47 PM PST by Razzz42
Under these programs, the USDA uses chemical poisons to murder literally millions of birds each year, including an occasional endangered species animal by accident. This is all part of the USDA's insane program of death to protect the financial interests of conventional agriculture giants.
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If you want my humble opinion, I believe that the increase in chronic disease as well as increased rates of Autism and such things as ADHD are all quite related.
If you look at the cultures that live the healthiest, longest lives, you will find they have much in common. They all exist where there is a plentiful supply of structured mineral water coming down from the mountains (with the exception of Japan which gets mineral rich foods from the sea).
We are dependent on the consumption of minerals as our bodies cannot manufacture these nutrients. Vitamins are useless unless minerals are available. Minerals are necessary for many things, not the least of which is the detoxification of harmful substances. One of the most important of these minerals is magnesium which has decreased by 50% in our food supply since the 1950’s. All the while, the amount of toxins we are exposed to daily has increased exponentially. We simply cannot process the load.
Because magnesium is a cofactor responsible for the proper functioning of everything from the heartbeat to neurotransmitter formation, you can see how this may be devastating to the body when in short supply.
Magnesium is the central mineral in chlorophyll which makes the plants green. Throw a week solution of dead sea salts or even epsom salts on your indoor houseplants and see how bright green they become.
People think if they take a multivitamin they are safe. Most multis have very little magnesium in them because it makes the pill bulky. if it is present at all it is usually a cheap form of magnesium called mag oxide (which is a rock...not well absorbed). Plants do the job of chelating (connecting) minerals to plant proteins which we then can absorb quite well.
Now, here is the question for the farmer....how can we get the magnesium and mineral content increased in our foods?
Those pesky actuarial tables.....
According to them we gain another year or three life expectancy every 10 years.
But hre you have “facts” that prove that we are doomed to death and disease.
My point exactly..WE DON’T KNOW.
We aren’t even aware ourselves if we are consuming GMO foods because they aren’t labeled as such. It is impossible to come to any sort of conclusion regarding the safety of GMO’s because there is not a specific demographic population that has been singled out to be tested.
WE ARE THE EXPERIMENT.
Do you have something against people making an informed decision about their food choices?
I really don’t care what you choose to eat, but I do have a problem if it affects my ability to feed my family what I feel is best for their health.
There is a heck of a lot more “gay” and “transsexual” stuff out there now than 50 years ago.
I’m not arguing that unnatural “food” is causing this.
It could be teflon, it could be plasticizers, it could be completely fictional wierdness, an ideological mission.
Our life expectancy actually declined a bit in 2008 despite a 2.7% drop in infant mortality so maybe you should not speak too soon. Who knows what the future holds...
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/733963
Life expectancy has gone up about 9 years since 1960, from about 70 to about 79.
Here’s my link
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005148.html
I’m showing on this one the greatest gain in life expectancy was between 1930 and 1950.
1930-1950 9.5 (20 years)
1950-1970 2.4 (20 years)
1970-2005 7 (35 years)
I agree.
One thing people are unaware of is that the fetal brain is heavily influenced by estrogen during development. BPA in plastics is just one estrogen mimicker. It attaches to the receptor sites meant for estrogen in the body. Unfortunately, there are plenty of different chemicals out there that may affect hormone levels.
Here are some interesting facts....
The male fetus actually puts out hormones from the developing testes which turn into estrogen in the brain and affect it’s development. The female fetus lacks testes and does not put out the same hormones. It is of concern that female fetal brains (which are not supposed to be exposed to estrogen at specific times during development) are exposed to the estrogen mimickers and male brains may be exposed to excess estrogen like compounds.
Certainly makes you wonder if there could be a link....
The farmers don’t care. As long as there aren’t weeds mixed in they’re happy.
There are only 3 nutrients important to grow plants that look good. N P and K. Cal Mag not as important.
There are ways to put trace minerals in the soil. Some believe seawater does the trick, and commercial farmers do use it. Others say that’s crazy, that sodium will kill everything.
Also, soy is a well known endocrine disputer. Soy can be found in some infant formulas leading some to believe that it may have caused a condition in young females known as early puberty. Both soy based formula and consumption of chickens fed soy based feed were seen to correlate with this condition in some studies.
And infant mortality rates have gone down since the 1960’s...something that is figured into the life expectancy tables, changing the numbers in the positive direction...
yup, i’ve heard a lot of this stuff before, but it’s always good to hear it again.
Teflon, which gore-tex is made of, stays in your body for years. Everyone has it in their system.
There are plenty of poisons in our body, we’re eating food materials we shouldn’t be eating. I am not one to think that it’s Conservative to not ban this stuff. Perhaps not the Federal Government, to a Constitutional purist, so then the states. I have no problem if my state, Maine, just said, there is plenty of evidence that this seed, that plastic, etc., is just too risky, we don’t want it here.
Global Warming, however, is just bs.
I think Global Warming, in part, is just an excuse to get environmentalists focused on the wrong thing. If Global Warming is the worst thing ever for the Environment, and we haven’t solved it, then why worry about anything else, let’s focus on the main priority. Well Global Warming is bs, and focusing too much on animals and fish and birds and plants is bs, but I don’t want to be eating mystery hybrid food/bacteria combos. I’d rather that be banned. And if not banned, that clearly labeled.
Maybe instead of a skull and crossbones poison logo, there could be a cartoon devil head and Contains GMOs. Or a winking frankenstein head and Contains GMOs.
I have trouble believing these industry lobbyists who insist that everyone will starve if they can’t increase crop production by 20%. People haven’t been starving in the US in a long time, long before GMOs.
Super weed time bomb.
...harvest time in Arkansas October 2009. Grim-faced farmers and scientists speak from fields infested with giant pigweed plants that can withstand as much glyphosate herbicide as you can afford to douse on them.
GM Crops Facing Meltdown in the USA
“Major crops genetically modified for just two traits – herbicide tolerance and insect resistance – are ravaged by super weeds and secondary pests in the heartland of GMOs as farmers fight a losing battle with more of the same; a fundamental shift to organic farming practices may be the only salvation.”
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho
For more...
http://laudyms.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/gmo-crops-produce-super-weed-time-bomb/
The enormous amount of this corn being produced (without understanding it's impact on humans and the environment) is shocking. The push back on any organization which questions the safety of GMO’s is enough to make anyone start to think those “nut jobs” who believe the world elite are trying to decrease the population and control the food supply may not be that nutty after all.....
Back in the old days here at FR - basically the Clinton era - there was plenty of discussion of conspiracy theories. Most of the experts on those things are gone.
Also, tie in the pharmaceutical industry. Malnourished, lacking essential trace nutients, brain doesn’t function properly, all sorts of pharmaceutical solutions.
1) Make the food bad, lacking essential nutrients, causing psychological maladies
2) drugs to treat the psychological maladies caused by the poor food.
tons of bad stuff out there.
I’ve heard that mychorrizae (a fungus) on the roots of plants
is extremely good at finding phosphorus. It’s typically much easier to get and keep mychorrizae in the soil and being beneficial if you don’t dump a bunch of NPK on the soil and disturb the soil a lot. That’s not the way farmers like to do things, so maybe that’s out.
Charcoal, or biochar, is apparently very good for soils. It was the key element of Terra Preta soils, which, due largely to the charcoal / biochar, have remained fertile for thousands of years. The charcoal (which is Carbon) has been in those soils for 1000 years. From a gardening standpoint, biochar is good because it holds on to water, holds on to nutrients, for a long time. The surface of the charcoal is very porous, providing places for bacteria, fungi, nutrients.
Really interesting. I hope the farmers out there will take note and do a little “experimenting” of their own. Thanks for the info! They truly hold our future in their hands.
So why do you feel Monsanto is still trying to do business with farmers?
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