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  Grrrrrr!!!!

   

  More of the PBR stuff, Call in, caller; tell us what you think!!

   

  What I think is that we are the most passive bunch of cows ever.  Everything we do is after the fact!!  Complain about the war, sure.  Complain about -------(fill in the blank)!!!

  And now our media plays as well.  All that means is that there is no longer any reason to uphold the status quo, all is used up.  

  On Sustainable ag meets the MSM -- and wins! posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago 14 Responses

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  swill milk

  I will be reading this book!  

  Does it make a difference if the cow is fed fermented exhausted mash?  
  Wasn't it common then for the poor people to breast feed and the wealthy to use other choices?  
  Wasn't it at that time common to see hogs in the streets and this was before Fredrick Law Omstead received his commission to create Central Park from the slum where the Irish lived?  
  New York City sent oysters to France packed in ice.  The Hudson valley was lined with ice houses.  
  Was the difference that the milk was skimmed of its cream?  
  Babies need milk with fat.  Take the fat, damage the infant.  
  Typhoid ran amok during the summer months when water was more polluted; the rich left for the sea shore and came back after summer.  
  If 50% of the new generation died; how many were poor?  How many lived to be 1, or 2, or 3, when many babies began to be water drinkers like their parents?  
  Brewing may have been the original way to purify their water supply that had been polluted; remember any congregation of humans would have located next to water.  
  Our belief in domestication of plants, for example the sunflower, has been genetically determined to be, of all places, not central Mexico, but Siberia.  The oldest domesticated sunflower comes from Siberia.  
  And the oldest domesticated us now is projected to be far older than imagined.  First, they were lots of us on the seashore, then we traveled inland, and then there were so many of us we began to occupy a single place just to make sure it wasn't occupied by somebody else when we went back.  Agriculture begins.  How long before water became polluted?

  One of the big questions now is what caused the glacial icing on Greenland, which, until 2 million years ago had a small glacier (think Alpine) and was a heaven on Earth.  Scientists wonder.  On The Environment Report naively pushes Monsanto-related study praising rBGH posted 1 year, 1 month ago 2 Responses

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  printing $$$$

  Great info!  Thanks.
  Infrastructure to me has the connection to the existing corporate bureaucracies.  I consider public works something entirely different.  The corporates use their existing "infrastructure" for profit; any change in the existing refineries, existing tankers for transport, existing dispensing truck/tractor/transport over roads, any change in the existing dispensing/fueling stations means less profit.  Which also means any 'new' fuel will also use the existing methods.  Probably means methane as methane (natural gas) is more readily available and convertible with less cost to fit the (again) existing infrastructure.
  My guess is that unprofitable (to repair) parts of the infrastructure will be cut off and left to rot.    See repeat of the inner city ghettos.

  I can't resist another example here from when I was homeless and living at the SA shelter in Bowling Green KY.  Walking around the area one day I saw distantly over the small homes and tree tops a expanse that one associates with a wide park or lake; when I wove through the streets to get there, I found a wide expanse alright, green grass without trees right up to the enormous empty abandoned since WWII factory once owned by GE but obviously no longer profitable; so much for capitalism concept of built-in infrastructure maintainence.    

  And as we all can see war is an almost constant as it is a substitute for a genuine GDP growth.  

  My favorite comment regarding GDP was from one of the eco mags and it stated that from the point of GDP, the best possible scenario was a wealthy cancer patient dying in the hospital and under going an expensive divorce.  Now war makes sense.  On Bridge to the 21st century? posted 2 years, 3 months ago 12 Responses

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  corn to ethnol

  Quote from Organic Consumers Org:  
  In the past 12 months, the global corn price has doubled.
  Because corn is the most common animal feed, this affects the price of milk, cheese, eggs, meat, as well as corn-based sweeteners and cereals.
  In the U.S., milk prices have nearly doubled.
  Butter prices in Europe have spiked by 40%.
  Pork prices in China are up 20%.
  In Mexico there have been riots in response to a 60% rise in the cost of tortillas.
  In six of the past seven years, global grain consumption has exceeded production. As a result world grain reserves have dwindled to 57 days. This is the lowest level of grain reserves in 34 years.
  While the UN lists 34 countries as needing food aid, 30% of next year's grain harvest in the U.S. will be converted to ethanol to fuel cars.

  Well, what that says to me is that this is yet another devious method of the US to force the rest of the underdeveloped world to "choose" GM foods provided by the US in preference to their own or ungeneticly modified food.  

  Current reading lead us to believe that many areas are and will continue to face water scaricity.  Leading to growing food shortages.  More crises in war among populated starving countries.  And what we are offering the same GM modified rice, corn, etc that was turned down in a previous African famine.  

  There is no sufficient reason for the US gov to provide subsidises for ethnol/corn when the most provident approach to alternative fuels would be to use a grass/prenennial grain, ect.  

  Sadly, after reading Zbignew B book on our "Second Chance" it seems to me that we had had our second and third chance.On An eco-lexical eco-spasm for the modern eco-age posted 2 years, 4 months ago 12 Responses

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  can you hear me now?

  I also think multiple assaults on the immune system are the problem.  Dr Tyrone from the UC system gave a talk here in Duluth MN for the Duluth Greens.  His work resulted in years of results that allowed him to give in-depth descriptions of the assaults on frogs from Atrazine which allowed an internal parasite to evince multiple extremities.  Inside was a lot worse:  the male frogs were being feminized to the extent of producing eggs.  He pointed out we are merely higher up the food chain.  

  Birds as well as bees use the Earth's magnetism to allow themselves to fly home.  So are we seeing disorientation of birds?  What about sea turtles?  
  Bumble bees are the sole pollinator of red clover--are they failing to reproduce?  

  The French have an interesting history of their wine vines--they almost lost their complete winery to an imported pest from America.  It was found in the 18th century and for decades almost no progress was made.  Eventually the extremely complicated life cycle was identified in total and almost no French wine vines were left.  The answer:  French vines are now and have been since the parasitic discovery grafted onto American rootstock which survives the parasite.  French vines exist in toto in only just a few isolated sites such on islands.  You might say they no longer exist.  

  Such accommodation to crises in the environment take place and after a time almost no one remembers the original reigning natural condition.  
  Will we wind up with some form of artificial pollination?  Quite possibly.  

  Is it far fetched to say that the humans in the future will have to depend on artificial pollination?  Well, after 3 generations will we even know the difference?   On Is the information age killing off honeybees? posted 2 years, 6 months ago 17 Responses