In article , Charlie wrote:
Why don't you go to the nearest transport and just effing jump off the
earth before you do any more damage. You and the rest of your kind.
You chemicalheads make me want to puke.
Charlie
Just read an interesting (to me anyway) about chem ferts. Appears
that in 1980, a ton of chem fert/acre would yield 15 to 18 tons of
corn, in 1990 that was down to 5 to 10 tons/acre. So it turns out that
as long as there was organic material to be mined from the soil,
chem ferts looked good. Once the organics are gone, the magic
leaves as well. Not to mention the top soil, water quality, air
quality, biological diversity . . .
That was another interesting point. Apparently, ag scientists
are always creating new resistant plants because the critters
always find away around the plant's defenses (especialy when people
insist on planting thousands of acres of the same crop in the
same place, year after year, after year). Any who, ag scientists need to
trot out a new and improved version every seven years. Where do
these wonder genes come from? (TA DA) Biodiversity. The very thing that
we have lost 75% of in the last hundred years. In southern Mexico,
in a logged out forest, by accident, a cousin of the teosinte plant
was discovered. Which easily hybridizes with corn but is resistant to all
corn viruses. Corn is the number two-o grain crop in the world.
This previously unknown plant may allow us to go on eating. Or it could
have gone the way of many life forms in the tropic, destroyed before it
was even noticed. Some of these biomes are only a few acres.
So yeah. Chem ferts are killing the planet, GMOs don't out produce
natural plants, and in their rush to concentrate wealth, companies, like
Monsanto, are destroying bio-diversity.
Not that whacked out foresters don't do there bit by strip cutting
forests and replanting a monoculture of harvestable trees and call it
restoration (except without the diversity).
To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the
land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result
in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we
ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Seventh State of the Union (1907-12-03)
--
Billy
Bush and Pelosi Behind Bars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVTf...ef=patrick.net
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0aEo...eature=related