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  And if it's medium? Then what? Just more dirty bong water sarcasm? Is that all you've got to contribute? That and your assumptions?

  On The way we eat is trashing the fragile conditions that make human life possible posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago 22 Responses

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  How big is your farm FoodProvider?

  On The way we eat is trashing the fragile conditions that make human life possible posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago 22 Responses

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  Whew, empty the dirty water from your bong pardner.

  Superstition? You've been holding your breath for way too long! It's a scientific fact that the use of chemical destroys the soil organisms, rendering the soil sterile and useless, requiring greater amounts of chemicals - pick your cide, it doesn't matter cowboy - for decreasing amounts of yield.

  
  Ignore me though. Empty that dirty water a pick up a copy of the meticulously researched "The End of Food" by Paul Roberts. I wonder if you can even get past the cover seeing that you've stated that industrial agriculture isn't killing the planet.

  Hey! Did you know the guys at the Land Institute think that industrial agriculture is responsible for 40% of ALL carbon in the atmosphere? Ahct! Not that it matters to you but I'm sure the IPCC is kicking themselves over missing nitrogen. Just remember though: natures abhors monoculture. Pathogens love it.

  
  Keep your head down in the sand as the food system continue to slow motion collapse. Notice how it will all come to an end rather quickly as they add even more chemicals in hopes of slavaging what's left. The answer is and always has been right under our noses: compost.

  On The way we eat is trashing the fragile conditions that make human life possible posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago 22 Responses

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  Bt by itself breaks down in 2 weeks. It's relatively harmless. Bt for the corn worms can be used by organic farmers on their crops because it is safe.

  I know of two organic farmers in Boulder County, Colorado who don't use Bt, just to go showoff that their corn is indeed organic. Almost every single ear of corn has a worm in the tip. This is normal. This is natural, but OMFG - people who don't know the least thing about food and growing it would freak out if they saw it in the supermarket. And the supermarket produce manager would assume that the worm would spread to other produce and ruin his produce section. So s/he won't even bother to sell organic corn. Heck, even Whole Foods doesn't sell it very much at all.

  But man, does it ever taste so good - the corn, not the worm.

  On Would you like some GMOs in your coffee? posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago 93 Responses

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  Bt by itself breaks down in 2 weeks. It's relatively harmless. Bt for the corn worms can be used by organic farmers on their crops because it is safe.

  I know of two organic farmers in Boulder County, Colorado who don't use Bt, just to go showoff that their ocrn is indeed organic. Almost every single ear of corn has a worm in the tip. This is normal. This is natural, but OMFG - people who don't know the least thing about food and growing it would freak out if they saw it in the supermarket. And the supermarket produce manager would assume that the worm would spread to other produce and ruin his produce section. So s/he won't even bother to sell organic corn. Heck, even Whole Foods doesn't sell it very much at all.

  But man, does it ever taste so good - the corn, not the worm.

  On Would you like some GMOs in your coffee? posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago 93 Responses