Genetically modified crops failing worldwide
Submitted by doctor011 on Tue, 05/18/2010 - 08:24The Green Revolution -- a misleading name applied by PR firms to the onset of globalized, chemical-intensive, industrial agriculture that is anything but friendly to the environment -- is coming unraveled around the world, bringing devastation to farmers from the plains of China to the plains of America.
It was revealed last week that China is dealing with an explosive infestation of the formerly inconsequential mirid bug in its orchards and cotton fields. The bug's population exploded as a result of widespread planting of cotton that had been genetically altered to be resistant to the bollworm, formerly cotton's worst enemy. Cotton farmers stopped spraying insecticides, since their plants shrugged off the bollworms, and thus allowed other insects, especially the mirid bug, to multiply without interference.
http://www.examiner.com/x-48928-Environmental-News-Examiner~...
bumping for gardeners--
I try to raise my own seed or use heirlooms, etc.--
this is scary--
imagine another Irish potato famine--
:(
it's hard to be awake; it's easier to dream--
super bugs
super weed
not so super farming.
The entire agricultural revolution is based on oil.
Effectively we are eating oil, or at least the energy in it as that energy is converted to food.
It worked for a while until it generated its own feedback problems, such as described in this article.
But the real problem will come as there is less and less oil to fuel this part of the industrial age, industrial agriculture.
Are not pestilence and famine two of the four horsemen?
"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence." Thomas H. Huxley
I was watching Oklahoma Horizon
on OETA, and they were discussing the new breed of weeds that roundup wouldn't kill.
I'm telling you that there is a force in control, and it is not human. Take that however you would like.
bump
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