By Rady Ananda
Adding to the natural rice industry’s woes after Bayer CropScience contaminated a third of the US rice supply with transgenic rice in 2006, the widespread application of Bayer’s glufosinate and Monsanto’s glyphosate is reducing crop yields, and burning and deforming rice plants that survive. [Image: Glyphosate deforms the growing points on rice plants.]
The Mississippi Rice Council (MRC) has sounded a national alarm over damage caused by aerial drift of glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup, calling for severely restricted aerial application.
MRC president Mike Wagner recently told crop dusters at this year’s Mississippi Agricultural Aviation Association annual meeting that glyphosate is wreaking havoc on the natural rice industry where “non-transgenic rice is planted in a sea of genetically modified crops that are tolerant to glyphosate.”
Posted in Biotechnology, Environment, Films & Books, Genetically Engineered Food, pollution, Scientific Studies, Soil
Tagged Andres Carrasco, Arpad Pusztai, bayer cropscience, bee die-off, Bertram Verhaag, biotechnology, ccd, colony collapse disorder, don m huber, films, genetic contamination, Genetically Engineered Food, glufosinate, Glyphosate, herbicides, honeybee, Ignacio chapela, Mississippi Rice Council, monsanto, panicle blight, parrot beak rice, Poison of the Pampas, pollution, queen of the sun, rice, rice deformation, rice leaf scald, rice leaf smut, rice yield reductions, roundup, science under attack, Soil microflora, superweed, USDA
By Rady Ananda
While industries continue to pollute the planet with their toxic chemicals, toxic waste and toxic spills, Earth’s pollinators sing a swan song that leaves no doubt as to the folly of modern civilization. Our ability to hear and appropriately respond to the crisis of declining pollinators will determine humanity’s survival.
“In 1923, Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian scientist, philosopher and social innovator, predicted that in 80 to 100 years honeybees would collapse.” Queen of the Sun
Steiner believed the industrialization of bees would lead to their demise. It looks like he was right. In recent years, the United States has lost between 100 and 300 billion bees, and the problem has spread to Europe and beyond. While industrialized beekeeping operations do kill millions of bees each year, several other factors contribute to their massive die-off.
Posted in Apiculture, Biotechnology, Factory Farms, Films & Books, Genetically Engineered Food, pollution, Scientific Studies, Sustainable Practices
Tagged age of mammals, apiculture, apis mellfera, colony collapse disorder, evolution, global bee colony disorders, gm crops, HFCS, high fructose corn syrup, keystone species, mass die-off, monoculture, north american bats, pesticides, queen of the sun, Taggart Siegel, unep, white nose syndrome, wns