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THE GOOD NEWS
Issue 3
World hunger
New GMO facts
EXTREME WEATHER
DROUGHT
HOW TO:
Store Fruits and
Vegetables
ORGANIC FOOD STUDY:
They missed the
point?
NEW SHOCKING STUDY:
GMO’s are toxic

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THE GOOD NEWS
Issue 3
World hunger
New GMO facts
EXTREME WEATHER
DROUGHT
HOW TO:
Store Fruits and
Vegetables
ORGANIC FOOD STUDY:
They missed the
point?
NEW SHOCKING STUDY:
GMO’s are toxic
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Severe Droughts Drive Food Prices Higher.
Europe’s Grains Won’t Make Up For Drought Losses
What’s Behind Rising Food Prices
Extreme Weather Means Extreme Food Prices Worldwide
World Hunger
Wild Pollinators Support Farm Productivity And Stabilize Yield
Organic Food Is Not Better Than Any Other Food ?
Organic Food Study ‘Missed The Point’
Monsanto Roundup Weedkiller And Gm Maize Implicated In ‘Shocking’ New Cancer Study
Spread The Word: Gmos Are Toxic!
The Gmo Debate Is Over - Gm Crops Must Be Immediately Outlawed
Landsat Satellites Find The ‘Sweet Spot’ For Crops
Organic Pest Control
Top 10 Organic Wines
How To:store Fruit & Vegetables Without Plastic
How Tomatoes Lost Their Taste
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Dear reader,
Here we are with the new issue of Organic News e-magazine.
In this issue of Organic News we bring you interesting topics regarding
global extreme situation caused by world drought. Extreme weather patterns
throughout whole world means extreme food prices, food shortages and another
difficult year regarding world hunger. What’s behind all that - you can find out in
this new issue.
Last month was very interesting and important for future of organic
farming and for the whole world. First, there was Stanford’s University “anti
organic” study with statement that organic food is not better in any way than
normal conventional food. Study was directed to support worldwide GMO
campain. Many were discussing this topic around the globe until shocking “french
study’” from University of Caen published scary facts about rats fed with GMO
food. Finally, the proof that GMO is toxic was here. No more discussion about
that.
Further, we bring you articles about organic pest control, insects in your
garden and plants related to them, articles about Hi-Tech space technology and
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ISSUE III

WORLD DROUGHT
Severe Droughts Drive Food Prices Higher
Food prices rose again sharply threatening the health and well-being of millions
of people. Africa and the Middle East are particularly vulnerable, but so
are people in other countries where the prices of grains have gone up abruptly.
Global food prices soared by 10 percent in July
from a month ago, with maize and soybean
reaching all-time peaks due to an unprecedented summer of
droughts and high temperatures in both the United States
and Eastern Europe, according to the World Bank Group’s
latest Food Price Watch report.
From June to July, maize and wheat rose by 25
percent each, soybeans by 17 percent, and only
rice went down, by 4 percent. Overall, the World Bank’s
Food Price Index, which tracks the price of internationally
traded food commodities, was 6 percent higher than in July
of last year, and 1 percent over the previous peak of February
2011.
ood prices rose again sharply threatening the
“Fhealth and well-being of millions of people,”
said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim. “Africa
and the Middle East are particularly vulnerable, but so are
people in other countries where the prices of grains have
gone up abruptly.”
Overall, food prices between April and July
continued the volatile trend observed during
the previous 12 months, which halted the sustained increases
between mid-2010 and February 2011. Prices increased in
April, came down in May and June, and sharply increased in
July.
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Sharp domestic price increases have continued in
this quarter, especially in Africa. Sub-Saharan
Africa, in particular, experienced the highest price increases
in maize, including 113 percent in some markets in Mozambique.
Meanwhile, the Sahel and eastern Africa regions
experienced steep price increases of sorghum: 220 percent in
South Sudan, and 180 percent in Sudan, for instance.
According to Food Price Watch, weather is the
critical factor behind the abrupt global price
increases in July. The drought in the U.S. has resulted in vast
damages to the summer crops of maize and soybeans, for
which the country is the world’s largest exporter. Meanwhile,
the dry summer in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and
Kazakhstan has contributed to projected wheat production
losses.
The abrupt food price increases turned favorable
price prospects for the year upside down. World
Bank experts do not currently foresee a repeat of 2008;
however, negative factors -- such as exporters pursuing panic
policies, a severe El Nino, disappointing Southern hemisphere
crops, or strong increases in energy prices -- could
cause significant further grain prices hikes such as those
experienced four years ago.
Droughts have severe economic, poverty and
nutritional effects. In Malawi, for instance, it
is projected that future severe droughts observed once in 25
years could increase poverty by 17 percent, hitting especially
hard rural poor communities. And in India, dismal losses
from droughts occurred between 1970 and 2002 to have
reduced 60-80 percent of households’ normal yearly incomes
in the affected communities.
e cannot allow these historic price hikes
“Wto turn into a lifetime of perils as families
take their children out of school and eat less nutritious food
to compensate for the high prices,” said Kim. “Countries
must strengthen their targeted programs to ease the pressure
on the most vulnerable population, and implement the right
policies.”
he World Bank has stepped up its support
“Tto agriculture to its highest level in 20 years,
and will keep helping countries respond to the food price
hikes,” continued Kim.
The World Bank’s support for agriculture in
FY12 was over $9 billion—a level not reached
in the past two decades. The Bank is also coordinating with
UN agencies through the High-Level Task Force on the
Global Food Security Crisis and with non-governmental
organizations, as well as supporting the Partnership for
Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) to improve
food market transparency and to help governments make
informed responses to global food price spikes.
Should the current situation escalate, the World
Bank Group stands ready to go even further to
assist client countries protect the most vulnerable against
future shocks. Measures can include increased agriculture
and agriculture-related investment, policy advice, fast-track
financing, support for safety nets, the multi-donor Global
Agriculture and Food Security Program, and risk management
products.
Programs and policies to help mitigate food price
hikes include safety nets to ensure poor families
can afford basic staples, sustained investments in agriculture,
the introduction of drought-resistant crop varieties--which
have provided large yield and production gains--and keeping
international trade open to the export and import of food.
According to Food Price Watch, prices are
expected to remain high and volatile in the
long-run as a consequence of increasing supply uncertainties,
higher demand from a growing population, and the low
responsiveness of the food system.
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WORLD DROUGHT
Europe’s Grains Won’t Make Up for Drought Losses
The grain harvest in the European Union, the
world’s third-largest grower, is unlikely to ease a
global supply shortfall as dry weather hurts yields from Spain
to Romania and British crops are delayed by rain.
France and Germany, Europe’s top growers, are
set to boost grain output by 8.5 percent this year,
not enough to offset declines in the U.K., Spain and Italy, according
to Hamburg- based trader Alfred C. Toepfer International
GmbH. Europe’s wheat harvest may be the smallest
in five years, helping send stockpiles at the end of the 2012-
13 season to 10.9 million metric tons, the lowest since at least
1999, U.S. Department of Agriculture data show.
Milling wheat surged 35 percent this year on
NYSE Liffe in Paris on concern dry weather
would spur Russia, last season’s third-biggest exporter, to restrict
shipments. Corn rallied to a record last month on the
Chicago Board of Trade as top producer U.S. suffered its
worst drought in more than 50 years. While world consumption
of grains may exceed output for the second time in three
years, European shipments will be steady from the previous
season, International Grains Council data show.
verall supplies will be tighter than they were
“O last year,” Amy Reynolds, an economist at
the London. “While there may be strong export demand for
EU grain, the amount Europe is able to export won’t really increase.”
Fewer supplies may spur a 9.1 percent drop in
global grain trade this season, the biggest decline
since 1986, to 289.37 million tons, according to the USDA.
Shipments include nine grains, ranging from wheat to rice
to barley, tracked in the department’s monthly world supply
and demand report. China is the world’s largest cereal
producer, followed by the U.S. and the EU, according to the
USDA.
Best Performers
Crops are the best performing commodities this
year on the Standard & Poor’s GSCI gauge of
24 raw materials, led by a 46 percent jump in soybeans and
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35 percent gain in wheat. The MSCI All-Country World
Index of equities rose 6.9 percent. Treasuries returned 2.5
percent, according to Bank of America Corp.
EU cereal production may be 279 million this
season, about 2 percent smaller than the fiveyear
average because of dry weather in some regions, the
European Commission said. The soft wheat harvest may be
127 million tons, similar to the previous average, while corn
output at 60 million tons is expected to be about 2 percent
higher than normal.
Farmers are finished harvesting soft wheat in
France, according to crops office FranceAgriMer,
while some grain still needed to be collected in northern
Germany, Toepfer said. In the U.S., farmers are just beginning
to harvest corn, while Russia has collected 62 percent of
its grains and legumes, government data show.
Germany & France
German grain production may climb 6.7 percent
from last year to 44.7 million tons, after a cold
snap last February failed to dent the country’s crop, the Agriculture
Ministry said. Toepfer pegs the German harvest
at 45.2 million tons, and France’s crop at 69.15 million, 8.9
percent more than a year earlier. Still, combined grain output
in the U.K., Spain and Italy may be 11 percent below a year
earlier, the company said.
In the U.K., the harvest started about 10 days later
than normal because of rain, and crops on about
40 percent of the country’s wheat area had been collected ,
the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board said.
The U.K. had its wettest summer since 1912,
with the fewest hours of sunshine in the three
months through August since 1980, the Met Office said, citing
provisional data. Testing of the country’s winter-wheat
crop showed 97 percent of samples had signs of fungal diseases
that can reduce yields, with some fields carrying species
that can be toxic to humans and animals, crop-quality
service CropMonitor reported.
Quality Affected
Excess moisture has reduced the quality of the
country’s crop, leading to “shriveled up” kernels
that weigh less and produce less flour, said George Phillips, a
grain buyer at Wessex Grain, a merchant in Somerset, England.
An AHDB provisional survey Aug. 31 showed U.K.
wheat samples weighing 71.9 kilograms per hectoliter (2.84
bushels), down from the previous three-year average of 77.5
kilograms.
t’s been a bad year,” Phillips said. “The grain
“I hasn’t filled properly because of lack of sunlight
and damp conditions for a long period of time and uneven ripening
in the crop.”
European grain exports may total 26.9 million
tons, little changed from 26.8 million a year earlier,
the IGC estimates. On Aug. 23, the agency cut its forecast
from an earlier projection of 27.3 million tons. The IGC
expects production in the bloc to total 275.8 million tons.
Crop Losess
Drought and hail caused almost 3 billion euros
($3.8 billion) in crop damage in Italy this year,
farming union Coldiretti said yesterday. Corn yields in Romania,
Bulgaria and Hungary may be more than 35 percent
smaller than a year earlier because of “very dry soil conditions,”
while Spain’s wheat yields may drop 29 percent, the
EU’s Monitoring Agricultural Resources unit said.
The USDA estimates that drought may cut the
corn harvest in top exporter U.S. to 10.78 billion
bushels, a six-year low. In June the agency projected output
would surge to a record 14.79 billion bushels this year.
Russian Harvest
Russia’s Agriculture Ministry estimates that the
wheat harvest may be smaller than in 2010,
when the worst drought in half a century spurred the country
to ban grain exports for 10 months.
rom the Black Sea, Bulgaria, Romania, into
“F Ukraine and Russia and further east into Kazakhstan,
none of those countries had a good year,” said London-based
Dan Hofstad, an INTL FCStone Inc. risk-management
consultant for the Commonwealth of Independent
States/Black Sea region. “It’s playing into the whole global supply
issues we’re seeing. The grain markets remain bullish.”
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BEYOND THE WORLD DROUGHT
WHAT’S BEHIND RISING FOOD PRICES
Consumers see buying from area farmers and producers as a good
way to keep money and jobs close to home, improving the local
economy while protecting American jobs.
BUT DOES BUYING LOCAL REALLY MAKE A SIGNIFICANT ECONOMIC DIFFERENCE?
verybody is looking for local food,”
“E says John Stanton, Ph.D., professor
of food marketing. “But whether we like it or not, the
food world is global and what happens in Brazil can
have just as big an impact on U.S. consumers as what
happens in Nebraska.”
Although many U.S. consumers were
alarmed to see news reports this summer
of droughts leaving shriveled crops dying in
the fields, Stanton warns other factors will have a
greater effect on Americans’ wallets.
rice increases from the droughts are
“P likely to have short-term effects, but
global issues can have a longer and greater impact,”
Stanton explains, citing increasing demand from
the rest of the world for crops like corn.
he biggest cost in a box of corn flakes
“T isn’t the corn,” Stanton says. “It’s everything
from the price of oil to transport the product
to the marketing and the packaging. So something like
the cost of oil will have a much more lasting effect on
the price of your cereal than the supply of crops.”
Stanton predicts higher food prices are
an inevitability, whether the local food
movement is here to stay or not.
.S. farmers are doing everything they
“U can to keep America’s food inexpensive,”
Stanton says. “But while I like to get my tomatoes
from a local New Jersey farm stand or my mother’s
garden, most of the prices of the food products that I
buy are likely to be just as affected by storms in China,
a growing middle class in India, or drought in Argentina,
as they are by a drought in the Midwest.”
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AID AGENCY WARNS
EXTREME WEATHER
MEANS
EXTREME FOOD PRICES WORLDWIDE
Reducing greenhouse gases and saving the polar
bears tend to dominate discussions on climate
change. But to the booming world population, one climate
change issue may be even more pressing – hunger.
new report by a leading international relief agency
warns that climate change will increase the
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risk of large spikes in global food prices in the future, and
lead to more hungry people in the world. That’s because extreme
weather like droughts, floods and heat waves are predicted
to become much more frequent as the planet heats up.
ur planet is boiling and if we don’t act now,
“O hunger will increase for millions of people on
our planet,” says Heather Coleman, climate change policy
adviser for Oxfam America, which released the report today.
The combination of the severe drought in the U.S.
this summer and droughts in Eastern Europe
led to a sharp increase in world food prices in July, according
to the World Bank. And the world’s poorest are particularly
vulnerable to spiking food prices, because they use most of
their income on food.
Some of the sting may be yet to come. The drought
in the U.S. is particularly hard on animal feed,
and increases in meat prices may be on the way as a result,
although they are not predicted to be as high here as you
might expect.
Still, any price increases can make it difficult for
poor families to get enough food, even in rich
countries. For example, before the recession in 2008, one in
10 U.S. households couldn’t find enough food. (The government
calls them “food insecure.”) For 2010 and 2011, as Pam
Fessler reports, that number has increased to one in seven
households.
But poor countries in Africa and the Middle East
stand to suffer most. That’s due in part to the
fact that different countries handle price spikes differently.
For example, price swings between 2007 and 2008
resulted in an 8 percent increase in the number
of malnourished people in African nations, according to a
report by the Food and Agriculture Organization.
Meanwhile, large, stable countries like China
were able to stabilize grain prices for their
people, but smaller countries were vulnerable to high global
prices.
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n 2010, when an extreme drought in Russia shriveled
its crops, food prices there increased, so Russia
banned wheat exports, which sent global grain prices soaring.
As climate change makes extreme weather events
even more common, the Oxfam report warns
that spikes in global food prices may “become the new normal.”
The relationship between climate and hunger is a complex
one.
But there are ways people are trying to protect
the most vulnerable from the effects of climate
change, says Siwa Msangi, a fellow at the International Food
Policy Research Institute.
Investments in water storage and irrigation systems
can help countries get through droughts. Paving
roads and improving ports can help prevent floods from
disrupting food supplies. Better feeding programs can also
help poor people keep their families fed despite price spikes,
Msangi says.
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FOOD INFLATION, FOOD SHORTAGES, FAMINE
World Hunger
It has been the worst drought in more than 50 years, and it
has absolutely devastated corn crops all over the nation
devastating global food crisis unlike anything
A we have ever seen in modern times is coming.
Crippling drought and bizarre weather patterns have damaged
food production all over the world this summer, and the
UN and the World Bank have both issued ominous warnings
about the food inflation that is coming.
To those of us in the Western world, a rise in the
price of food can be a major inconvenience, but
in the developing world it can mean the difference between
life and death. Just remember what happened back in 2008.
When food prices hit record highs it led to food riots in 28
different countries. Today, there are approximately 2 billion
people that are malnourished around the globe. Even rumors
of food shortages are enough to spark mass chaos in many areas
of the planet. When people fear that they are not going to
be able to feed their families they tend to get very desperate.
That is why a recent CNN article declared that “2013 will be
a year of serious global crisis”.
The truth is that we are not just facing rumors
of a global food crisis - one is actually starting
to unfold right in front of our eyes. The United States experienced
the worst drought in more than 50 years this summer,
and some experts are already declaring that the weather
has been so dry for so long that tremendous damage has already
been done to next year’s crops. On the other side of the
world, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan have all seen their
wheat crops devastated by the horrible drought this summer.
Australia has also been dealing with drought, and in India
monsoon rains were about 15 percent behind pace in mid-
August. Global food production is going to be much less
than expected this year, and global food demand continues
to steadily rise. What that means is that food inflation, food
shortages and food riots are coming, and it isn’t going to be
pretty.
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The United States exports more food than anyone
else in the world, and that is why the entire
globe has been nervously watching the horrific drought in
the United States this summer with deep concern.
It has been the worst drought in more than 50
years, and it has absolutely devastated corn crops
all over the nation. According to Bill Witherell, the U.S.
corn crop this year “is said to be on a par with that of 1988
crop, the worst in the past thirty years.”
Sadly, this will be the third year in a row that the
yield for corn has declined in the United States.
That has never happened before in the history of the United
States.
And coming into this year we were already in bad
shape. In fact, U.S. corn reserves were sitting at
a 15-year low at the end of 2011. So where will we be at the
end of 2012?
The official estimates for corn yields put out by
the U.S. government just keep dropping, but
many fear that they aren’t dropping quickly enough. There
have been some reports on the ground from some areas of
the country that have been very distressing. The following
is from a recent Wall Street Journal article.... Meanwhile,
scouts with the Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour on Monday reported
an average estimated corn yield in Ohio of 110.5 bushels
per acre, down from the tour’s estimate of 156.3 bushels a year
ago. In South Dakota, tour scouts reported an average yield estimate
of just 74.3 bushels per acre, down from 141.1 bushels a
year ago. Those are catastrophic numbers.
But farmers are not the only ones that have been
impacted by the dry weather. A recent article by
Chris Martenson summarized some of the other effects of
this drought.....
Even though the mainstream media seems to have
lost some interest in the drought, we should
keep it front and center in our minds, as it has already led to
sharply higher grain prices, increased gasoline costs (via the
pass-through of higher ethanol costs), impeded oil and gas
drilling activity in some areas (due to a lack of water), caused
the shutdown of a few operating electricity plants, temporarily
reduced red meat prices (but will also make them climb
sharply later) as cattle are dumped in response to feed- and
pasture-management concerns, and blocked and/or reduced
shipping on the Mississippi River. All this and there’s also
a strong chance that today’s drought will negatively impact
next year’s Winter wheat harvest, unless a lot of rain starts
falling soon.
Ranchers have had a particularly hard time during
this drought. If you expect to pay about the
same for meat this time next year as you are doing now you
are going to be deeply disappointed. The following is from a
recent Reuters article....The worst drought to hit U.S. cropland
in more than half a century could soon leave Americans
reaching deeper into their pockets to fund a luxury that
people in few other countries enjoy: affordable meat.
Drought-decimated fields have pushed grain
prices sky high, and the rising feed costs have
prompted some livestock producers to liquidate their herds.
This is expected to shrink the long-term U.S. supply of meat
and force up prices at the meat counter.
All over the western United States pastures have
been destroyed and there is not enough hay. It
would be hard to overstate the damage that this nightmarish
drought is doing to our ranchers....
The relentlessly hot dry weather, amplified in
many areas by wildfire, has been devastating to
farmers, ranchers and other horse owners.
‘
Everybody is using their winter hay now. The pastures
are destroyed and they probably won’t recover before
winter,’ said Caldwell. ‘The price of hay has doubled, and the
availability is down by 75 percent.’
Caldwell is somewhat sanguine about his own
lot, but not optimistic about what lies ahead.
‘Today the problem is not nearly as bad as it’s going to be,’ he
stated. ‘It’s terribly bad today, but it is going to get a lot worse.’
But of course this is not just an American problem.
The truth is that the entire globe is facing a
rapidly growing food crisis. According to the UN, the global
price of food rose 6 percent in the month of July alone.
According to the World Bank, global food prices
actually rose 10 percent during July. Either figure
is really, really bad. The other day, the UN Food and
Agriculture Organization, the International Fund for
Agricultural Development and the World Food Program
issued a joint statement in which they stated the following....
‘We need to act urgently to make sure that these price shocks
do not turn into a catastrophe hurting tens of millions over the
coming months.’
If the price of food at our supermarkets suddenly
went up 20 percent that would really stretch our
family budgets here in the United States, but we would survive.
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On the other side of the globe, such a price
change can mean the difference between life
and death. The following is from the CNN article mentioned
above.... But step outside the developed world, and the
price of food suddenly becomes the single most important fact of
human economic life. In poor countries, people typically spend
half their incomes on food -- and by ‘ food,’ they mean first and
foremost bread.
When grain prices spiked in 2007-2008, bread
riots shook 30 countries across the developing
world, from Haiti to Bangladesh, according to the Financial
Times. A drought in Russia in 2010 forced suspension
of Russian grain exports that year and set in motion the
so-called Arab spring.
Already, 18 million people in Niger, Mali, Chad,
Mauritania and Senegal are dealing with very
serious food shortages.
In Yemen, things are even worse.... Yemen has a
catastrophic food crisis. Nearly half the population,
10 million people, does not have enough to eat. While
300,000 children are facing life threatening levels of malnutrition.
The United Nations says Yemen is already in the
throes of a disaster. ‘The levels are truly terrible.
Whatever we do thousands upon thousands of children will die
this year from malnutrition,’ Unicef’s man in Yemen, Geert
Cappelaere, said. ‘In some areas child malnutrition is at 30%,
to put it in context, an emergency is 15%. It is double that
already.’
But this is just the beginning. These food shortages
are going to spread and we will eventually see
food riots that will absolutely dwarf the food riots of 2008.
Many scientists fear the worst. Some are even
now warning that food shortages will become
so severe that they will eventually force much of the globe on
to a vegetarian diet....
Leading water scientists have issued one of the
sternest warnings yet about global food supplies,
saying that the world’s population may have to switch almost
completely to a vegetarian diet over the next 40 years
to avoid catastrophic shortages.
Humans derive about 20% of their protein from
animal-based products now, but this may
need to drop to just 5% to feed the extra 2 billion people expected
to be alive by 2050, according to research by some of
the world’s leading water scientists. ‘There will not be enough
water available on current croplands to produce food for the expected
9 billion population in 2050 if we follow current trends
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and changes towards diets common in western nations,’ the report
by Malik Falkenmark and colleagues at the Stockholm
International Water Institute (SIWI) said. The days of very
cheap meat are coming to an end. Meat will be increasingly
viewed as a “luxury” around the globe from now on.
Sadly, there are some in the financial world that
actually intend to make lots of money off of this
crisis.... The United Nations, aid agencies and the British
Government have lined up to attack the world’s largest commodities
trading company, Glencore, after it described the
current global food crisis and soaring world prices as a ‘good’
business opportunity.
With the US experiencing a rerun of the drought
‘Dust Bowl’ days of the 1930s and Russia suffering
a similar food crisis that could see Vladimir Putin’s
government banning grain exports, the senior economist of
the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, Concepcion
Calpe, told The Independent: ‘Private companies like Glencore
are playing a game that will make them enormous profits.’
Does that disturb you? It should.
Driving up the price of food for starving people
is not a good way to make money. Food is one
of our most basic needs. When people are deprived of food
they become very desperate.
Just look at what is already happening in Spain.
The economic crisis in that country has just begun,
and people are already looting supermarkets. You can
see a video news report about Spanish activists looting 3 tons
of food from local supermarkets right here.
Much of that food was donated to food banks,
but in the future I am sure that the desperate
“activists” will not be so generous when things get really
tight.
In other areas of Spain, large numbers of people
have been filmed digging through trash dumpsters
for food.
Could you ever see yourself doing that? Don’t be
so sure that hunger will never come to you.
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Wild Pollinators Support Farm
Productivity and Stabilize Yield
Most people are not aware of the fact that 84% of the European crops are partially or entirely
dependent on insect pollination. While managed honeybees pollinate certain crops,
wild bees, flies and wasps cover a very broad spectrum of plants, and thus are considered
the most important pollinators in Europe
The serious decline in the number of managed
honeybees and wild bees reported in Europe
over the last few decades has the potential to cause yield
decreases with threats to the environment and economy of
Europe. The future of the pollination services provided by
bees is therefore of serious concern. Effective actions for the
mitigation of the pollinator declines need to be taken across
Europe.
Although honeybees are important pollinators in
large scale plantations, for some crops, including
sunflowers, a combination of wild bees and honeybees are essential
to provide optimal pollination. Wild bees can support
farm productivity when the honeybees can’t do the work, for
example when their number is insufficient, or when weather
conditions prevent them from flying. Moreover, it is well
known for several crops, that wild bees are more efficient at
pollinating than honeybees, such as mason bees on apples
and bumblebees on beans. In addition, wild bees can be a
lower cost alternative to honeybees since they do not need to
be rented commercially if sufficient high quality pollinator
habitat is available in and around farms.
To raise awareness among farmers for the importance
of wild pollinators, the EC FP7 project
STEP -- ‘Status and Trends of European Pollinators’ published
a farmers’ factsheet in 15 European languages. The
factsheet encourages farmers to utilize the benefits of wild
insect pollination services, and thus reduce the risks of relying
on the honeybee as a single species for crop production.
Farmers are encouraged to take actions to protect pollinators
by selecting appropriate agri-environmental schemes and
modifying agricultural practices to become more pollinator
friendly.
Simultaneously, STEP is undertaking a broadscale
survey of the public opinion through online
questionnaires available in seven European languages. The
survey aims to reveal if, and to what extent, people are aware
of the role of pollinators in agricultural ecosystems and the
consequences for the environment from the decline of bees
and other insect pollinators. People are also being asked to
give their opinion on the importance of insect pollination for
agriculture to share their perception on the status of pollinators
in Europe, their importance for public health, wildlife
and the European economy and how important they believe
this issue to be. Readers of all nationalities are invited to express
their opinions through this online survey.
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Status and Trends of
European Pollinators
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THE ILLUSION OF CHOICE IN THE
Consumers may look at the grocery
store shelves and think they’ve got a
multitude of options, but the truth is, the
same huge corporations own all of the brand
names, use the same toxic ingredients in the
products and care not the slightest about
your nutrition or health. Take a look at this
diagram for proof that your freedom of
choice in the grocery store is an illusion.
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COMMERCIAL FOOD INDUSTRY
A ginormous number of brands are controlled by just
10 multinationals, according to this amazing infographic
from French blog Convergence Alimentaire.
Now we can see just how many products are owned
by Kraft, Coca-Cola, General Mills, Kellogg’s, Mars,
Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, P&G and Nestle.
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STANFORD ANTI-ORGANIC STUDY
RODIN’S THE GATES OF HELL, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Organic food is NOT better than any other food ?
“Some believe that organic food is always healthier and more nutritious,
but we were a little surprised that we didn’t find that.”
You’re in the supermarket eyeing a basket of sweet, juicy
plums. You reach for the conventionally grown stone
fruit, then decide to spring the extra $1/pound for its organic cousin.
You figure you’ve just made the healthier decision by choosing the
organic product — but new findings from Stanford University cast
some doubt on your thinking.
here isn’t much difference between organic and conventional
foods, if you’re an adult and making a decision
“T
based solely on your health,” said Dena Bravata, MD, MS, the senior
author of a paper comparing the nutrition of organic and nonorganic
foods, published in the Sept. 4 issue of Annals of Internal
Medicine.
team led by Bravata, a senior affiliate with Stanford’s
Center for Health Policy, and Crystal Smith-Spangler,
A
MD, MS, an instructor in the school’s Division of General Medical
Disciplines and a physician-investigator at VA Palo Alto Health Care
System, did the most comprehensive meta-analysis to date of existing
studies comparing organic and conventional foods. They did not
find strong evidence that organic foods are more nutritious or carry
fewer health risks than conventional alternatives, though consumption
of organic foods can reduce the risk of pesticide exposure.
The popularity of organic products, which are generally
grown without synthetic pesticides or fertilizers or routine
use of antibiotics or growth hormones, is skyrocketing in the
United States. Between 1997 and 2011, U.S. sales of organic foods
increased from $3.6 billion to $24.4 billion, and many consumers
are willing to pay a premium for these products. Organic foods are
often twice as expensive as their conventionally grown counterparts.
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Although there is a common perception — perhaps based
on price alone — that organic foods are better for you
than non-organic ones, it remains an open question as to the health
benefits. In fact, the Stanford study stemmed from Bravata’s patients
asking her again and again about the benefits of organic products.
She didn’t know how to advise them.
So Bravata, who is also chief medical officer at the healthcare
transparency company Castlight Health, did a literature
search, uncovering what she called a “confusing body of studies,
including some that were not very rigorous, appearing in trade publications.”
There wasn’t a comprehensive synthesis of the evidence that
included both benefits and harms, she said.
his was a ripe area in which to do a systematic review,”
“T said first author Smith-Spangler, who jumped on
board to conduct the meta-analysis with Bravata and other Stanford
colleagues.
For their study, the researchers sifted through thousands of
papers and identified 237 of the most relevant to analyze.
Those included 17 studies (six of which were randomized clinical trials)
of populations consuming organic and conventional diets, and
223 studies that compared either the nutrient levels or the bacterial,
fungal or pesticide contamination of various products (fruits, vegetables,
grains, meats, milk, poultry, and eggs) grown organically and
conventionally. There were no long-term studies of health outcomes
of people consuming organic versus conventionally produced food;
the duration of the studies involving human subjects ranged from
two days to two years.
After analyzing the data, the researchers found little significant
difference in health benefits between organic
and conventional foods. No consistent differences were seen in the
vitamin content of organic products, and only one nutrient — phosphorus
— was significantly higher in organic versus conventionally
grown produce (and the researchers note that because few people have
phosphorous deficiency, this has little clinical significance). There was
also no difference in protein or fat content between organic and conventional
milk, though evidence from a limited number of studies
suggested that organic milk may contain significantly higher levels of
omega-3 fatty acids.
The researchers were also unable to identify specific fruits
and vegetables for which organic appeared the consistently
healthier choice, despite running what Bravata called “tons of
analyses.”
ome believe that organic food is always healthier and more
“S nutritious,” said Smith-Spangler, who is also an instructor
of medicine at the School of Medicine. “We were a little surprised
that we didn’t find that.”
The review yielded scant evidence that conventional foods
posed greater health risks than organic products. While
researchers found that organic produce had a 30 percent lower risk of
pesticide contamination than conventional fruits and vegetables, organic
foods are not necessarily 100 percent free of pesticides. What’s
more, as the researchers noted, the pesticide levels of all foods generally
fell within the allowable safety limits. Two studies of children
consuming organic and conventional diets did find lower levels of
pesticide residues in the urine of children on organic diets, though
the significance of these findings on child health is unclear. Additionally,
organic chicken and pork appeared to reduce exposure to
antibiotic-resistant bacteria, but the clinical significance of this is also
unclear.
As for what the findings mean for consumers, the researchers
said their aim is to educate people, not to discourage
them from making organic purchases. “If you look beyond health effects,
there are plenty of other reasons to buy organic instead of conventional,”
noted Bravata. She listed taste preferences and concerns about
the effects of conventional farming practices on the environment and
animal welfare as some of the reasons people choose organic products.
ur goal was to shed light on what the evidence is,” said
“O Smith-Spangler. “This is information that people can
use to make their own decisions based on their level of concern about
pesticides, their budget and other considerations.”
She also said that people should aim for healthier diets
overall. She emphasized the importance of eating of fruits
and vegetables, “however they are grown,” noting that most Americans
don’t consume the recommended amount.
In discussing limitations of their work, the researchers noted
the heterogeneity of the studies they reviewed due to differences
in testing methods; physical factors affecting the food, such
as weather and soil type; and great variation among organic farming
methods. With regard to the latter, there may be specific organic
practices (for example, the way that manure fertilizer, a risk for bacterial
contamination, is used and handled) that could yield a safer
product of higher nutritional quality.
hat I learned is there’s a lot of variation between farming
practices,” said Smith-Spangler. “It appears there
“W
are a lot of different factors that are important in predicting nutritional
quality and harms.”
Other Stanford co-authors are Margaret Brandeau,
PhD, the Coleman F. Fung Professor in the School of
Engineering; medical students Grace Hunter, J. Clay Bavinger and
Maren Pearson; research assistant Paul Eschbach; Vandana Sundaram,
MPH, assistant director for research at CHP/PCOR; Hau Liu,
MD, MBA, clinical assistant professor of medicine at Stanford and
senior director at Castlight Health; Patricia Schirmer, MD, infectious
disease physician with the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health
Care System; medical librarian Christopher Stave, MLS; and Ingram
Olkin, PhD, professor emeritus of statistics and of education. The
authors received no external funding for this study. Source
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SOME REACTIONS TO STANFORD STUDY
Organic Food Study ‘Missed the Point’
Few weeks ago controversy surrounding a Stanford study claiming to have established that organic food is no more
nutritious than non-organic illustrates the pitfalls of talking about food issues in a consumer frame. And people
all around the country are saying so.
Food issues are never solely or even mainly about individual consumer choice — our food and farming system
connects us with each other and is by most measures our most impactful daily interaction with the environment.
Food is, for instance, the largest single-sector contributor to climate change, and industrial agriculture consumes 70 percent
of the earth’s freshwater supplies. Food is at the center of human culture, and always has been. More to the point, food is
unavoidably political and we are increasingly understanding ourselves as food citizens much more than consumers.
Accordingly, from the Los Angeles Times to the Des Moines Register people are responding to the Stanford study
with some variation of “so what?” or “you’ve missed the point.” People choose and afford organic when they can
for a variety of reasons, a good many of them having to do with not wanting pesticides to be used on their food or in their
name.
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Pesticide residues on food in unknown combinations can have real health impacts — especially at critical life
junctures like pregnancy, early childhood or when we are older, or sick. Pesticides are driving biodiversity loss
and play a key role in the decline of pollinators.
Pesticide use in the fields puts farmers, and especially farmworkers and their families on the frontlines in ways
that are profoundly unjust. Farmworkers face so many risks and get so much sicker than just about any other
workforce, that they are largely exempt from our nation’s labor laws.
Pesticide use on food is, in other words, about so much more than the consumer benefits of organic. Yet media
insistently seek to frame organic as a consumer issue (and as the folks at the Framework Institute note, we in the
food advocate world too often play into this). As a result, we get a distracting and ideologically charged “debate” that misses
the mark every time.
What the data really say:
Dr. Chuck Benbrook of the Organic Center wrote a full technical review of the Stanford study, noting a variety
of methodological flaws like undercounting and the failure to meaningfully define terms. Key among the flaws
is a misleading math trick which allows the study to depict the increased risk of exposure to pesticide residues on food at
around 30 percent. In fact, the data show “an overall 81 percent lower risk or incidence of one or more pesticide residues in the
organic samples compared to the conventional samples.”
Taking the study on in its own terms (i.e. the individual consumer benefits of organic), Benbrook’s corrections
boil down to this:
Source
From my read of the same literature, the most significant, proven
benefits of organic food and farming are:
1. a reduction in chemical-driven, epigenetic changes during fetal and childhood
development, especially from pre-natal exposures to endocrine disrupting pesticides;
2. the markedly more healthy balance of omega-6 and -3 fatty acids in organic
dairy products and meat; and
3. the virtual elimination of agriculture’s significant and ongoing contribution to
the pool of antibiotic-resistant bacteria currently posing increasing threats to the
treatment of human infectious disease.
So, fewer sick kids, better good fats and a better shot at having antibiotics that
actually work. And so much more.
As Maressa Brown of CafeMom.com wisely notes:
“Ultimately, the glaring issue with this study is that the researchers weren’t looking at the reasons people
buy certain groceries organic. I don’t stick to organic strawberries and organic poultry because I think
either food will provide me with more of anything … be that vitamin C or protein. I’m buying organic,
because I want fewer toxins.”
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NEW SHOCKING STUDY
Monsanto Roundup weedkiller and GM maize implicated in
‘shocking’ new cancer study
The world’s best-selling weedkiller, and a genetically modified maize resistant to it, can
cause tumours, multiple organ damage and lead to premature death, new published
research reveals.
In the first ever study to examine the long-term effects of Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, or the NK603 Roundupresistant
GM maize also developed by Monsanto, scientists found that rats exposed to even the smallest amounts,
developed mammary tumours and severe liver and kidney damage as early as four months in males, and seven months for
females, compared with 23 and 14 months respectively for a control group.
his research shows an extraordinary number of tumours developing earlier and more aggressively - particu-
in female animals. I am shocked by the extreme negative health impacts,” said Dr Michael Antoniou,
“Tlarly
molecular biologist at King’s College London, and a member of CRIIGEN, the independent scientific council which supported
the research.
GM crops have been approved for human consumption on the basis of 90-day animal feeding trials. But three
months is the equivalent of late adolescence in rats, who can live for almost two years (700 days), and there have
long been calls to study the effects over the course of a lifetime.
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The peer-reviewed study, conducted by a team of researchers at the University of Caen, found that rats fed on a
diet containing NK603 Roundup resistant GM maize, or given water containing Roundup at levels permitted
in drinking water, over a two-year period, died significantly earlier than rats fed on a standard diet.
Up to half the male rats and 70% of females died prematurely, compared with only 30% and 20% in the control
group. Across both sexes the researchers found that rats fed Roundup in their water or NK603 developed two
to three times more large tumours than the control group. By the beginning of the 24th month, 50-80% of females in all
treated groups had developed large tumours, with up to three per animal.
By contrast, only 30% of the control group were affected. Scientists reported the tumours “were deleterious to
health due to [their] very large size,” making it difficult for the rats to breathe, [and] causing problems with their
digestion which resulted in haemorrhaging.
The paper, published in the scientific journal Food and Chemical Toxicology today, concluded that NK603 and
Roundup caused similar damage to the rats’ health, whether they were consumed together or on their own. The
team also found that even the lowest doses of Roundup, which fall well within authorised limits in drinking tap water, were
associated with severe health problems.
he rat has long been used as a surrogate for
“T human toxicity. All new pharmaceutical,
agricultural and household substances are, prior to their approval,
tested on rats. This is as good an indicator as we can
expect that the consumption of GM maize and the herbicide
Roundup, impacts seriously on human health,” Antoniou
added.
Roundup is widely available in the UK, and
is recommended on Gardeners Question
Time. But this also represents a potential blow for the
growth of GM Foods.
With the global population expected to increase
to nine billion by 2050, the UN
has said that global food production must increase by
50%. And a consultation led by DEFRA entitled Green
Food Project recommended as recently as 10 July 2012 that GM must be reassessed as a possible solution.
Some 85% of maize grown in the US is GM, while 70% of processed foods contain GM ingredients without GM
labelling. In the UK and Europe GM maize is not consumed directly by humans but is widely used in animal
feed without the requirement for GM labelling.
Antoniou said there could be no doubting the credibility of this peer-reviewed study. “This is the most thorough
research ever published into the health effects of GM food crops and the herbicide Roundup on rats.”
Led by Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini, the researchers studied 10 groups, each containing 10 male and 10 female
rats, over their normal lifetime. Three groups were given Roundup – developed by Monstanto – in their drinking
water at three different levels consistent with exposure through the food chain from crops sprayed with the herbicide.
Three groups were fed diets containing different proportions of Roundup resistant maize at 11%, 22% and 33%.
Three groups were given both Roundup and the GM maize at the same three dosages. The control group was
fed an equivalent diet with no Roundup or NK603 containing 33% of non-GM maize.
A
spokesman for Monsanto said: “We will review it thoroughly, as we do all studies that relate to our products and
technologies.”
Source
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MORE ABOUT NEW SHOCK FINDINGS IN GMO STUDY
Spread the word: GMOs are toxic!
Eating genetically modified corn (GM corn) and
consuming trace levels of Monsanto’s Roundup
chemical fertilizer caused rats to develop horrifying tumors,
widespread organ damage, and premature death. That’s the
conclusion of a shocking new study that looked at the longterm
effects of consuming Monsanto’s genetically modified
corn.
The study has been deemed “the most thorough
research ever published into the health effects of
GM food crops and the herbicide Roundup on rats.” News
of the horrifying findings is spreading like wildfire across
the internet, with even the mainstream media seemingly in
shock over the photos of rats with multiple grotesque tumors...
tumors so large the rats even had difficulty breathing
in some cases. GMOs may be the new thalidomide.
It reported, “Scientists found that rats exposed to
even the smallest amounts, developed mammary
tumors and severe liver and kidney damage as early as four
months in males, and seven months for females.”
The Daily Mail reported, “Fresh row over GM
foods as French study claims rats fed the controversial
crops suffered tumors.” (link)
It goes on to say: “The animals on the GM diet suffered
mammary tumors, as well as severe liver and
kidney damage. The researchers said 50 percent of males and
70 percent of females died prematurely, compared with only
30 percent and 20 percent in the control group.”
The study, led by Gilles-Eric Seralini of the University
of Caen, was the first ever study to examine
the long-term (lifetime) effects of eating GMOs. You
may find yourself thinking it is absolutely astonishing that
no such studies were ever conducted before GM corn was
approved for widespread use by the USDA and FDA, but
such is the power of corporate lobbying and corporate greed.
The study was published in The Food & Chemical
Toxicology Journal and was just presented at
a news conference in London.
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Here are some of the shocking findings from the study:
• Up to 50% of males and 70% of females suffered premature death.
• Rats that drank trace amounts of Roundup (at levels legally allowed in the water supply) had a 200% to
300% increase in large tumors.
• Rats fed GM corn and traces of Roundup suffered severe organ damage including liver damage and
kidney damage.
• The study fed these rats NK603, the Monsanto variety of GM corn that’s grown across North America
and widely fed to animals and humans. This is the same corn that’s in your corn-based breakfast cereal,
corn tortillas and corn snack chips.
The study is entitled, “A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health.”
That abstract include this text. (Note: “hepatorenal toxicity” means toxic to the liver).
Our analysis clearly reveals for the 3 GMOs new side effects linked with GM maize consumption, which were sex- and often dosedependent.
Effects were mostly associated with the kidney and liver, the dietary detoxifying organs, although different between the 3
GMOs. Other effects were also noticed in the heart, adrenal glands, spleen and haematopoietic system. We conclude that these data
highlight signs of hepatorenal toxicity, possibly due to the new pesticides specific to each GM corn. In addition, unintended direct or
indirect metabolic consequences of the genetic modification cannot be excluded.
Here are some quotes from the researchers:
“This research shows an extraordinary number of tumors developing earlier and more aggressively - particularly in female animals.
I am shocked by the extreme negative health impacts.” - Dr Michael Antoniou, molecular biologist, King’s College London.
“We can expect that the consumption of GM maize and the herbicide Roundup, impacts seriously on human health.” - Dr Antoniou.
“This is the first time that a long-term animal feeding trial has examined the impact of feeding GM corn or the herbicide Roundup,
or a combination of both and the results are extremely serious. In the male rats, there was liver and kidney disorders, including
tumors and even more worryingly, in the female rats, there were mammary tumors at a level which is extremely concerning; up to
80 percent of the female rats had mammary tumors by the end of the trial.” - Patrick Holden, Director, Sustainable Food Trust.
Source
READ THE ABSTRACT OF THE STUDY HERE
The Daily Mail is reporting on some of the reaction to the findings:
France’s Jose Bove, vice-chairman of the European Parliament’s commission for agriculture and known
as a fierce opponent of GM, called for an immediate suspension of all EU cultivation and import authorisations
of GM crops. ‘This study finally shows we are right and that it is urgent to quickly review all GMO
evaluation processes,’ he said in a statement. ‘National and European food security agencies must carry out new
studies financed by public funding to guarantee healthy food for European consumers.’
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MONSANTO HALTED FROM THREATENING HUMANITY
The GMO debate is over
GM crops must be immediately outlawed
The GMO debate is over. There is no longer any
legitimate, scientific defense of growing GM
crops for human consumption. The only people still clinging
to the outmoded myth that “GMOs are safe” are scientific
mercenaries with financial ties to Monsanto and the biotech
industry.
GMOs are an anti-human technology. They
threaten the continuation of life on our planet.
They are a far worse threat than terrorism, or even the threat
of nuclear war.
As a shocking new study has graphically shown,
GMOs are the new thalidomide. When rats eat
GM corn, they develop horrifying tumors. Seventy percent
of females die prematurely, and virtually all of them suffer
severe organ damage from consuming GMO. These are the
scientific conclusions of the first truly “long-term” study ever
conducted on GMO consumption in animals, and the findings
are absolutely horrifying.
What this reveals is that genetic engineering
turns FOOD into POISON. Remember thalidomide?
Babies being born with no arms and other heartbreaking
deformities? Thalidomide was pushed as “scientific”
and “FDA approved.” The same lies are now being told
about GMO: they’re safe. They’re nutritious. They will feed
the world!
But the real science now coming out tells a different
picture: GMOs may be creating an entire
generation of cancer victims who have a frighteningly
heightened risk of growing massive mammary gland tumors
caused by the consumption of GM foods. We are witnessing
what may turn out to be the worst and most costly blunder in
the history of western science: the mass poisoning of billions
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of people with a toxic food crop that was never properly tested
in the first place. Remember: GMOs are an anti-human
technology. And those who promote them are, by definition,
enemies of humankind. The evidence keeps emerging, day
after day, that GMOs are absolutely and without question
unfit for human consumption. France has already launched
an investigation that may result in the nation banning GM
corn imports. It’s already illegal to grow genetically modified
crops in France, but the nation still allows GMO imports,
meaning France still allows its citizens to be poisoned by imported
GM corn grown in America.
The GMO industry, not surprisingly, doesn’t
want any independent research conducted on
GMOs. They don’t want long-term feeding trials, and they
most certainly do not want studies conducted by scientists
they can’t control with financial ties. What they want is to
hide GMOs in products by making sure they’re not listed on
the labels. Hence the biotech industry’s opposition to Proposition
37.
The tactics of the biotech industry are:
• HIDE genetically modified ingredients in foods
• FALSIFY the research to claim GMOs are safe
• MANIPULATE the scientific debate by bribing
scientists
• DENY DENY DENY just like Big Tobacco,
DDT, thalidomide, Agent Orange and everything
else that’s been killing us over the last
century
Monsanto is now the No. 1 most hated corporation
in America. The company’s nickname
is MonSatan. It is the destructive force behind the lobbying
of the USDA, FDA, scientists and politicians that have
all betrayed the American people and given in to genetically
modified seeds. These seeds, some of which grow their own
toxic pesticides right inside the grain, are a form of chemical
brutality against children and adults. This is “child abuse” at
its worst. It’s an abuse of all humans. It is the most serious
crime ever committed against nature and all of humankind.
Science for sale
That’s what you get with payola science... science
“for sale” to wealthy corporations. Nearly all
the studies that somehow conclude GMO are safe were paid
for by the biotech industry. Every one of those studies is unreliable
and most likely fraudulent. Every scientist that conducts
“research” for Monsanto is almost certainly a sellout at
minimum... and more likely a jackal operative working for
an industry of death. Corporate science is fraudulent science.
When enough money is at stake, scientists can be bought
off to even declare smoking cigarettes to be safe. And they
did, throughout the 1950’s, 60’s and 70’s. Some of those very
same scientists are now working for the Monsantos of the
world, peddling their scientific fraud to the highest bidder
(which always happens to be a wealthy corporation). There is
no poison these scientists won’t promote as safe -- even “good
for you!” There is no limit to their evil. There are no ethics
that guide their actions.
GMO-promoting scientists are the most despicable
humanoid creatures to have ever walked
the surface of this planet. To call them “human” is an insult
to humanity. They are ANTI-human. They are demonic.
They are forces of evil that walk among the rest of us, parading
as authorities when in their hearts and souls they are
actually corporate cowards and traitors to humankind. To
pad their own pockets, they would put at risk the very future
of sustainable life on our planet... and they do it consciously,
insidiously. They feed on death, destruction, suffering and
pain. They align with the biotech industry precisely because
they know that no other industry is as steeped in pure evil
as the biotech industry. GMO pushers will lie, cheat, steal,
falsify and even mass-murder as many people as it takes to
further their agenda of total global domination over the entire
food supply... at ANY cost.
This is war at the genetic level. And this kind
of war makes bullets, bombs and nukes look
downright tame by comparison. Because the GMO war is
based on self-replicating genetic pollution which has already
been released into the environment; into the food supply;
and into your body.
The hundreds of millions of consumers who
eat GMO are being murdered right now, with
every meal they consume... and they don’t even know it.
GMO-pimping scientists are laughing at all the death they’re
causing. They enjoy tricking people and watching them die
because it makes their sick minds feel more powerful. These
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were the geeks in school who were bullied by the
jocks. But now, with the power of genetic manipulation
at their fingertips, they can invoke their hatred
against all humankind and “bully” the entire world with
hidden poisons in the food. That makes them smile. It’s the
ultimate revenge against a world that mistreated them in
their youth. Death to everyone!
Society must respond in defense of life on Earth
The sheer brutality of what the GMO industry
has committed against us humanity screams
out for a decisive response. It is impossible to overreact to
this. No collective response goes too far when dealing with
an industry that quite literally threatens the very basis of life
on our planet.
To march government SWAT teams into the
corporate headquarters of all GMO seed companies
and shut down all operations at gunpoint would be
a mild reaction -- and fully justified. To indict all biotech
CEOs, scientists, employees and P.R. flacks and charge them
with conspiring to commit crimes against humanity would
be a small but important step in protecting our collective futures.
To disband all these corporations by government order
have their assets seized and sold off to help fund reparations
to the people they have harmed is but a tiny step needed in
the defense of life.
The truth is that humanity will never be safe until
GMO seed pushers and manufacturers are
behind bars, locked away from society and denied the ability
to ever threaten humanity again. What the Nuremberg trials
did to IG Farben and other Nazi war crimes corporations,
our own government must now do to Monsanto and the biotech
industry.
It is time for decisive intervention. Monsanto must
be stopped by the will of the People. The mass poisoning
of our families and children by an evil, destructive
corporation that seeks to dominate the world food supply
must be halted.
The GMO debate is over. The horrors are now
being revealed. The truth can no longer be hidden,
and the reaction from the public cannot be stopped.
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MODERN SPACE FARMERS
Landsat Satellites Find the ‘Sweet Spot’ for Crops
Farmers are using maps created with free data from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey’s
Landsat satellites that show locations that are good and not good for growing crops.
Farmer Gary Wagner walks into his field where
the summer leaves on the sugar beet plants are
a rich emerald hue -- not necessarily a good color when
it comes to sugar beets, either for the environment or the
farmer. That hue tells Wagner that he’s leaving money in the
field in unused nitrogen fertilizer, which if left in the soil
can act as a pollutant when washed into waterways, and in
unproduced sugar, the ultimate product from his beets.
The leaf color Wagner is looking for is yellow.
Yellow means the sugar beets are stressed, and
when the plants are stressed, they use more nitrogen from
the soil and store more sugar. Higher sugar content means
that when Wagner and his family bring the harvest in, their
farm, A.W.G. Farms, Inc., in northern Minnesota, makes
more dollars per acre, and they can better compete on the
world crop market.
To find where he needs to adjust his fertilizer use
-- apply it here or withhold it there -- Wagner
uses a map of his 5,000 acres that span 35 miles. The
map was created using free data from NASA and the U.S.
Geological Survey’s Landsat satellites and tells him about
growing conditions. When he plants a different crop species
the following year, Wagner’s map will tell him which areas of
the fields are depleted in nitrogen so he can apply fertilizer
judiciously instead of all over.
farmer needs to monitor his fields for potential
A yield and for variability of yield, Wagner says.
Knowing how well the plants are growing by direct measurement
has an obvious advantage over statistically calculating
what should be there based on spot checks as he walks his
field. That’s where remote sensing comes in, and NASA and
the U.S. Geological Survey’s Landsat satellites step into the
spotlight.
The Sensors in the Sky
Providing the longest, continuous record of observations
of Earth from space, Landsat images
are critical to anyone -- scientist or farmer -- who relies on
month-to-month and year-to-year data sets of Earth’s changing
surface. Landsat 1 launched in 1972. The Landsat Data
Continuity Mission (LDCM), the eighth satellite in the
series, will launch in 2013 and will bring two sensors -- the
Operational Land Imager (OLI) and the Thermal Infrared
Sensor (TIRS) -- into low orbit over Earth to continue the
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work of their predecessors as they image our planet’s land
surface.
Land features tell the sensors their individual
characteristics through energy. Everything on
the land surface reflects and radiates energy -- you, your
backyard trees, that rocky outcropping, and a field where
a farmer is growing a crop of sugar beets. The sensors on
LDCM will measure energy at wavelengths both within the
visible spectrum -- what people can see -- and at wavelengths
that only the sensors, and some other lucky species, such as
bees and spiders, can see.
OLI will measure energy in nine visible, near
infrared, and short wave infrared portions, or
bands, of the electromagnetic spectrum, and TIRS will measure
energy in two thermal infrared bands. And that’s what
makes them such powerful tools.
Jim Irons, NASA Project Scientist for LDCM at
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt,
Md., says that the instruments will deliver data-rich images
that tell a deeper story than your average photograph of how
the land changes over time.
Wagner’s map -- a special kind of map known
as a zone map -- shows the difference between
healthy and stressed plants by representing the amount of
light they’re reflecting in different bands of the electromagnetic
spectrum. To display this information on his map,
the visible colors of light -- red, green, and blue -- are each
assigned to a different band. Red, for example, is assigned to
the near-infrared band that isn’t visible to humans. Healthy
leaves strongly reflect the invisible, near-infrared energy.
Therefore green, lush sugar beets pop out in bright red on
Wagner’s map while the yellow-leaved stressed plants appear
as a duller red. Wagner can use this map to track and document
changes in his crop’s condition throughout the season
and between seasons. As a tool, this map supports and
enhances his on-the-ground crop analyses with independent
and scientific observations from space.
Different band combinations tell farmers -- and
scientists, insurance agents, water managers,
foresters, mapmakers, and many other types of users -- different
information. Additionally, since the Landsat data is
digital, computers can be trained to use all the bands to rapidly
recognize and differentiate features across the landscape
and to recognize change over time with multiple images.
“
Therein lies the power of the Landsat data
archive,” says Irons. “It is a multi-band analysis
across the landscape and over a 40-year time span.”
Both OLI and TIRS use new “push-broom”
technology, in which a sensor uses long arrays
of light-sensitive detectors to collect information across the
field of view, as opposed to older sensors that sweep mirrors
side-to-side. The new technology improves on earlier instruments
because the sensors have fewer moving parts, which
will improve their reliability.
OLI will also be more sensitive to electromagnetic
radiation than previous Landsat sensors,
which is akin to giving users access to a new and improved
ruler with markings down to one-sixty-fourth of an inch versus
markings at every quarter inch. For Wagner, this means
that next summer with LDCM in orbit, he will be able to
better discriminate the degree of stress on his sugar beets,
giving him a more finely tuned view of what his plants need
across the field.
FARMER GARY WAGNER KNEELS IN FIELD WITH MAP AND CELL PHONE
The View of the Field is the Right Fit for its Purpose
Each step of the way, OLI will look at Earth
with a 15-meter (49 foot) panchromatic and a
30-meter (98 foot) multispectral spatial resolution along a
ground swath that is 185 kilometers (115 miles) wide. TIRS
will measure two thermal infrared spectral bands with a spatial
resolution of 100 meters (328 feet) and cover the same
size swath as OLI.
Different scale resolutions -- low, moderate,
and high -- deliver different levels of detail in
remote sensing images, and each has its purpose. The 30-meter
(98 foot) resolution of the Landsat images Wagner uses
allows him to see what is happening on his spread, quarteracre
by quarter-acre. He doesn’t need a view so narrow that
the high resolution image tells him who’s sitting in the
combine parked in his field, or a view so big that it shows
him smoke
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from forest fires drifting over the North American
continent with no detail on his farm.
The moderate resolution also means Landsat satellites
are able to fly over the same piece of real
estate more frequently than high resolution satellites. Once
every sixteen days, Landsat 7 in orbit now or LDCM after
it launches, will revisit Wagner’s farm, and every other place
on Earth, too, for global coverage. “We’re looking forward
to having a real quality instrument in space,” says Irons, who
is excited about having OLI and TIRS come online. He says
the Landsat 30-meter resolution has been assessed in the scientific
literature as being a suitable resolution for observing
land cover and land use change at the scale in which humans
interact with and manage land. The sensors will record 400
scenes a day, giving users 150 more scenes than previous
instruments. Data from both of the sensors will be combined
in each image.
The Legacy in the Landsat Mission is its Continuity
In daily operations on his farm, Wagner has used
Landsat data in near real time. He’s anxious for
the launch of LDCM and NASA’s newest sensors, OLI and
TIRS, because not having the remote sensing data really
puts him in a bind. A lack of current satellite data disrupts
Wagner’s understanding of what his plants need, what the
soil needs, the long-term performance history of his place,
and his budget.
For now, with his zone map in hand, Wagner
adjusts his care for his sugar beet crop, allowing
the plants to deplete fertilizer in the soil so he can change the
bright red on the satellite image to the yellow of sweet beets
in his field.
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Bug’s Life
Organic Pest Control
Pesticides — even organic varieties — are not the
safest, healthiest or most effective natural pest
control options. The addition of certain plants from the list
below to your garden or farm will encourage biodiversity
and a healthy population of beneficial garden insects that act
as Mother Nature’s best organic pest control. Integrated Pest
Management (IPM) and sustainable agriculture methodology
both rely heavily on the use of plants known to attract
beneficial insects that prey on damaging garden pests. According
to Dr. Geoff Zehnder, Professor of entomology at
Clemson, “If you are going to farm or garden organically, you
need to build in attractants for beneficials.”
The first rule to learn is the distinction between
the “good guys” and the “bad guys”: Not all
pests are a threat to your garden plants, and many of them
are actually helpful in fighting off other plant predators. We
can classify the good guys using the three “P’s” system:
The three ‘P’s’ of beneficial insects are pollinators,
predators and parasites. Pollinators, such
as honeybees, fertilize flowers, which increases the productivity
of food crops ranging from apples to zucchini. Predators,
such as lady beetles and soldier bugs, consume pest insects as
food. Parasites use pests as nurseries for their young. On any
given day, all three ‘P’s’ are feeding on pests or on flower pollen
and nectar in a diversified garden. If you recognize these
good bugs, it’s easier to appreciate their work and understand
why it’s best not to use broad-spectrum herbicides.
The use of such herbicides and pesticides can be
detrimental to the complex relationships between
plants, pests and predators — all the more reason why
natural insect control works better. Because pesticides, even
organic varieties, make no distinction between helpful and
hurtful insects, in the end their regular use can have many
negative impacts, including the suppression of the soil food
web and pollution of waterways. Instead, encouraging the
presence of predatory warriors that will defend and protect
your garden plants from common pests is not only an environmentally
sound management strategy, it also encourages
biodiversity and plant pollination.
Using a strategy known as farmscaping, you can
keep your pest population under control by
adding plants to attract beneficial insects. A general rule of
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thumb is to designate between 5 and 10 percent of your garden
or farm space to plants that bring in beneficials. An important
key is to plant so that there are blooms year-round
— the beneficial insects will not stay or survive through a
season if no food is available. This continuous-bloom feature
in farmscaping has earned the practice the nickname “chocolate
box ecology” — your garden or farm will be beautiful
year-round with a variety of colorful blooms and humming
insects.
D
ay and night, pesticide-free organic gardens are
abuzz with activity, much of it a life-and-death
struggle between predators and prey. We seldom see much
of this natural pest control, in which tiny assassins, soldiers
and lions — aka “beneficial insects” (the bugs that eat other
bugs) — patrol their surroundings in pursuit of their next
meal. Assassin bugs aren’t picky: They will stab, poison and
devour a wide range of garden pests, including caterpillars,
leafhoppers and bean beetles. Soldier and carabid beetles
work the night shift, emerging after dark from beneath
rocks, mulch and other daytime hiding places to feast upon
soft-bodied insects and the eggs of Colorado potato beetles.
Aphid lions (the larvae of the lacewing) have a hooked jaw
that helps them dispatch huge numbers of aphids, caterpillars,
mites and other pests.
These and many other beneficial insects are wellequipped
to see, smell and/or taste a potential
meal. Sometimes they’re alerted by the plants themselves, as
some emit a chemical alarm signal when pest insects begin
feeding on them, and nearby beneficial insects are quick to
respond. If your garden is teeming with beneficials, these
bugs may often thwart budding pest infestations before
you’ve even noticed the threat. It’s nature’s way of managing
pests — no pesticides required.
Judging from different reports across the globe,
tapping the support of beneficial garden insects
is one of our best tools for natural pest control. By providing
a welcoming habitat — shelter, water and alternate
food — you’ll encourage these insect helpers to maintain
year-round residence in your garden. You can then kick back
and enjoy the natural pest control provided by the diverse
and amazingly complex balance among what we humans see
as the “good bugs” and the “bad bugs.”
Habitats for beneficial bugs go by several names,
such as “farmscape,” “eco-scape” and, in Europe,
“beetle banks.” The concept of “farmscaping” to promote
natural pest control isn’t new, but designing studies to
confirm exactly what works best for a given crop in various
regions is challenging. An increasing number of researchers
has been exploring these complex interactions between
insects and plants to find new ways gardeners and farmers
can grow food without resorting to toxic pesticides. The
information here will equip you to put this growing body of
knowledge to work in your garden.
7 Ways to Welcome Beneficial Insects
1. PLANT A NECTARY SMORGASBORD OF FLOWERS.
When they can’t feed on insect pests in your
garden, beneficial insects need other food to
survive and reproduce. Having certain flowering plants in
or near your garden supplies that food in the form of nectar
and pollen. Beneficials use the sugar in nectar as fuel when
searching for prey and reproducing, and the protein in pollen
helps support the development of their eggs.
Which plants are easiest for them to tap? Researchers
have identified the following groups
whose flowers provide easily accessible nectar and pollen: 1)
plants in the daisy family, such as aster, cosmos and yarrow;
2) plants in the carrot family, such as cilantro, dill, fennel,
parsley and wild carrot; 3) alyssum and other members of
the mustard family; 4) mints; and 5) buckwheats.
Plants in these families are especially good because
their clusters of very small flowers make accessing
their nectar and pollen easier for many insects. Beneficial
garden insects can be broadly categorized as generalists —
those that eat most anything they can catch — and specialists
— those that feed on just one or a small array of prey.
The plants mentioned above can be used by both types, says
Mary Gardiner, assistant professor of entomology at Ohio
State University.
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lso be sure to consider bloom time,” Gardiner
“Asays. “You want to provide a diversity of flowers
from early to late in the season so that food is always available
for the beneficials.”
In addition, be sure to include some plants with
extrafloral nectaries, which are nectar-producing
glands apart from the plant’s flowers. Such plants are an
important supplemental food source for lady beetles and
other beneficial insects, especially during periods of drought
or other extreme weather. Plants with extrafloral nectaries
include sunflower, morning glory, peony, elderberry, vetch,
willow, plum and peach.
Until your season-long flower supplies become
well-established, you can supplement beneficials’
diets with a simple solution of sugar water. Several
studies conducted by Utah State University found a sugar
solution effective for attracting parasitic wasps. The researchers
used a mix of about three-quarters of a cup of sugar per
1 quart of water, and they applied it in a fine mist with a
handheld sprayer onto the crop’s foliage. (The researchers
used the solution on alfalfa.) Be sure to use fresh solution,
Gardiner advises.
2. A HOME OF THEIR OWN
Rather than just interplanting a few of these
flowering plants within your vegetable garden,
try to give them a wider berth: their own permanent
space near your garden crops. Doing so will help create an
undisturbed habitat where insect predators and parasites can
feed, reproduce and overwinter. Many beneficials, including
ground beetles and soldier beetles, spend at least part of their
life cycle underground, so having patches of soil that won’t
be churned up by digging or tilling is helpful.
y taking an annual cropping system and
“Badding borders or strips of diverse perennial
vegetation, we mimic natural systems,” says Don Weber, a
research entomologist with the Agricultural Research Service
who is based in Beltsville, Md. “From there, predators can
move quickly into nearby annual crops to help suppress
pests.”
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3. GO NATIVE
Beneficial and pest species vary regionally, so be
sure to incorporate some native plants into your
beneficial habitat. Native plants provide not only nectar
and pollen but also alternate insect prey. “Take milkweed, for
instance,” Gardiner says. “It hosts aphids, which draw in lady
beetles. The native aphids only feed on the milkweed, but the
lady beetles can go on to feed on garden pests.” Native plants
have other benefits, too: They increase biodiversity and provide
food for birds and native bees.
In 2004 and 2005, researchers at Michigan State
University tested 46 native plants and identified a
group that provided flowers throughout the growing season
and attracted a diversity of beneficial insects. What set the
winners apart? All had very showy floral displays.
hat could be due to either having large indi-
blooms, like the cup plant, or a large
“Tvidual
number of smaller blooms that together appear large, like the
milkweeds,” says Doug Landis, the Michigan State University
entomologist who led the study. Landis advises gardeners
in other regions to select natives that are known to be insectpollinated,
that grow vigorously in the specific conditions
and that have large floral displays.
4. HEDGE YOUR BETS
Include shrubs and perennial grasses in or near
your garden, too, if possible. California researchers
have taken a long, hard look at hedgerows to find out
how they may be able to increase beneficial insect activity on
farms. Hedgerows — diverse plantings of native flowering
perennials, grasses, shrubs and trees — were previously used
as windbreaks, boundary markers and sources of wood, but
have become less common in recent decades.
The studies have shown that a hedgerow can
provide an ideal habitat for many beneficial
bugs, such as predatory bugs (assassin bugs and minute
pirate bugs), syrphid flies, lady beetles, and parasitic wasps
and flies. From the shelter of a hedgerow, these “good bugs”
can quickly move to nearby garden crops to feed on aphids,
caterpillars, leafhoppers and squash bugs.
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nce these hedgerow plants are established, they
“Ocan bloom for a long period and produce a
large quantity of flowers with high-quality nectar,” says Rachael
Long, farm adviser with the University of California
Cooperative Extension Service. “Hedgerows provide shelter
from wind and cold, too, as well as alternate prey species, which
is especially important at the end of the growing season when
beneficials need a place to overwinter. It encourages them to stay
in the area.”
In a home garden setting, even a small mixed
border of shrubs, grasses and perennial flowers
should achieve similar results. Select plants with different
bloom times, advises Long. The closer the planting is to
garden crops, the better, although beneficials will travel as far
as several thousand feet if necessary.
One note of caution: Letting the margins of
your property go “wild” with weeds is not
necessarily the kind of diversity you want to encourage. “We
found that weedy, semi-managed areas actually were a resource
for insect pests, while managed hedgerows with native plants
had fewer pests and more beneficials that moved to nearby
crops,” Long says.
5. COVER MORE GROUND
Cover your soil with an organic mulch or cover
crop. Bare ground exposes beetles, spiders and
other beneficial garden insects to climate extremes (temperature,
wind, humidity) that can threaten their survival. “Use
any locally available organic mulch,” Gardiner says. “As long as
it helps retain moisture, is well-aerated, and is not infected with
fungal pathogens, it will protect the beneficials from the sun and
also provide food for some predators as it decays.”
Cover crops such as buckwheat, cowpea, sweet
clover, fava bean, vetch, red clover, white clover
and mustards can also provide food and shelter for beneficials.
“The key is to make sure that both the cover crop and
food crops overlap for at least some of the time, so beneficials
can move directly from the cover crop to the crop pests,” says
Robert Bugg, a University of California, Davis entomologist
who has been studying the relationship between plants
and beneficials for several decades. At the end of the season,
ignore the conventional advice to remove all spent vegetation.
If you know you have a pest that will overwinter in
the debris, go ahead and remove it or till it under. But if
not, leaving the debris is better because beneficials will seek
shelter in it. Bunch grasses and clumping perennials such as
comfrey provide especially good winter shelter for a number
of beneficial insects.
6. WATER WORKS
Provide shallow, gravel-filled dishes of water
in your garden if you don’t have other water
sources such as ponds or wetlands nearby to support beneficial
insects (including native bees). Be careful to change the
water frequently to avoid creating a habitat for mosquitoes.
Better yet, try growing the cup plant (Silphium perfoliatum),
which holds water in its leaves.
7. USE ORGANIC INSECTICIDES SELECTIVELY
Insecticides are designed to kill insects, and even
natural, plant-based pesticides such as pyrethrum
can kill beneficials. Use only pesticides approved for use
by organic growers, use them as a last resort, and use them
selectively. Besides, experts say having a few insect pests in
your garden isn’t so bad anyway — they help keep the good
guys hangin’ around, hungry for more.
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Top 10 Beneficial Insects
1. Braconid Wasps (Hymenoptera)
North America is home to nearly 2,000 species of
these non-stinging wasps. Adults are less than
half an inch long, with narrow abdomens and long antennae.
Adults lay eggs inside or on host insects; the maggot-like larvae
that emerge consume the prey. Diet: Caterpillars (including
tomato hornworms), flies, beetle larvae, leaf miners, true
bugs and aphids. Adults consume nectar and pollen.
2. Ground Beetles (Coleoptera)
Most of the 2,500 species are one-eighth to 1 1/2
inches long, dark, shiny and hard-shelled.
Diet: Asparagus beetles, caterpillars, Colorado potato beetles,
corn earworms, cutworms, slugs, squash vine borers and
tobacco budworms. Some are also important consumers of
weed seeds.
3. Hover or Syrphid Flies (Diptera)
Larvae are small, tapered maggots that crawl over
foliage. Black-and-yellow-striped adults resemble
yellow jackets but are harmless to humans. The adults hover
like hummingbirds as they feed from flowers. Diet: Larvae
eat mealybugs, small caterpillars, and are especially helpful in
controlling early season aphids. The adults feed on nectar and
pollen.
4. Lacewings (Neuroptera)
Larvae, sometimes called “aphid lions,” measure to
half an inch long and are light brown with hooked
jaws. Adults are light green or brown and one-half to 1 inch
long with transparent wings. Diet: Larvae prey upon aphids,
small caterpillars and caterpillar eggs, other larvae, mealybugs,
whiteflies and more. Adults eat honeydew, nectar and pollen,
and some eat other insects.
5. Lady Beetles (Coleoptera)
All of the nearly 200 beneficial North American
species are one-quarter-inch long. Larvae, which
can resemble tiny alligators, are usually dark and flecked with
red or yellow. Adults are rounded and often have orange or
red bodies with black spots. Diet: Larvae and adults both dine
on aphids, small caterpillars, small beetles and insect eggs.
Specialist species feed on scale insects, mealybugs, mites and
even powdery mildew. Adults also eat honeydew, nectar and
pollen.
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6. Predatory Bugs (Hemiptera)
This group includes big-eyed, minute pirate, assassin,
damsel and even certain predatory stink
bugs. All use their mouth, or “beak,” to pierce and consume
prey. Adults range in size from the minute pirate bug (onesixteenth-inch
long) to the wheel bug (an assassin bug that’s 1
1/2 inches long). Diet: Nymphs or larvae and adults feed on
aphids, caterpillars, scale insects, spider mites and insect eggs.
Many also prey upon beetles.
7. Soldier Beetles (Coleoptera)
These elongated, half-inch-long beetles have soft
wing covers. Larvae are brownish and hairy.
Adults usually have yellow or red and black markings and
resemble fireflies. Diet: Larvae feed on the eggs and larvae of
beetles, grasshoppers, moths and other insects. Adults feed on
aphids and other soft-bodied insects, as well as on nectar and
pollen.
8. Spiders (Araneae)
All of the more than 3,000 North American species
— including the crab spider, jumping spider,
wolf spider and orb-web spider — are predatory. Diet: Depends
on species, but can include aphids, beetles, cutworms,
fire ants, lacebugs, spider mites, squash bugs and tobacco
budworms.
9. Tachinid Flies (Diptera)
There are more than 1,300 North American species
of parasitic flies. Most resemble houseflies
but with short, bristly hairs on the abdomen. All develop as
internal parasites of other insects, including many garden
pests. Usually, the adult female attaches its egg to the host
insect, which is then consumed by the larva, but there are several
other patterns: eggs laid on host, eggs laid into host, eggs
laid on foliage to be eaten by host, live larvae laid on or near
host, and live larvae laid into host. Diet: Larvae feed internally
on caterpillars, beetles, bugs, earwigs and grasshoppers. Adults
feed on nectar, pollen and honeydew.
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10. Trichogramma Mini-Wasps
(Hymenoptera)
These extremely small wasps lay their eggs inside
the host’s eggs, where the young trichogramma
develop as internal parasites. Parasitized eggs turn black. Because
the trichogramma’s life cycle is very short — just seven
to 10 days from egg to adult — their populations can grow
rapidly. Diet: Pest eggs, especially those of cabbageworms,
codling moths, corn earworms, diamondback moths, and
other moths and butterflies
Put a HIPPO in Your Garden!
When pest insects attack crops, many plants release chemicals that signal to beneficial insects that lunch is
nearby. One of the more common HIPPOs — Herbivore-Induced Plant Protection Odors — is methyl
salicylate, aka oil of wintergreen. Numerous studies have confirmed that oil of wintergreen attracts a variety of beneficial
insects, including ladybugs, lacewings, minute pirate bugs and aphid-eating hover flies. Or, take a DIY approach by soaking
cotton balls in the oil, then placing them in the garden inside empty cottage cheese containers with perforated lids.
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19 Plants Beneficial Insects Love
The following plants will make your garden a boon to beneficial insects that will in turn provide you with free, allnatural
pest control. These annual (A) and perennial (P) plants draw an abundance of diverse beneficial insects in
many regions. Choose early-, mid- and late-season bloomers. Include flowering perennials and shrubs native to your area, too.
PLANT
BLOOM TIME
SWEET ALYSSUM (A) SPRING THROUGH FROST
HAIRY VETCH (A) SPRING TO SUMMER, DEPENDING ON SEEDING TIME
ANGELICA (P) LATE SPRING
COMMON GARDEN SAGE (P) LATE SPRING TO EARLY SUMMER
ORANGE STONECROP (P)
LATE SPRING TO EARLY SUMMER
THYME (P)
LATE SPRING TO EARLY SUMMER
CATMINT (P) LATE SPRING TO MIDSUMMER
BUCKWHEAT (A) THREE WEEKS AFTER PLANTING; CONTINUES UP TO 10 WEEKS
DILL (A)
SUMMER
FENNEL (P)
SUMMER
SHASTA DAISY (P)
SUMMER
MINTS (P)
MIDSUMMER
COREOPSIS (P) SUMMER TO FALL
CILANTRO (A) SUMMER TO FALL, IF RESEEDED
COSMOS (A) SUMMER TO FALL
OREGANO (P) SUMMER TO FALL
YARROWS, COMMON AND FERN-LEAF (P) SUMMER TO FALL
GOLDENROD (P) LATE SUMMER TO FALL
ASTERS (P) LATE SUMMER TO FALL Source
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Top 10 Organic Wines
Neil Palmer, co-director of wine merchants, Vintage Roots, and wine connoisseur
extraordinaire, gives us his pick of the best organic wines around
Once seen as a niche product, consumption of
organic wine is now growing faster than that
of conventional vintages. Last year, the market for organic
wine increased by 3.7 percent compared to 2 percent for the
non-organic product. So what’s brought it about? Partly, it’s
the increasingly sophisticated products making it onto the
shelves.
Producers such as Jean Pierre Fleury, Monty
Waldin and Jean Bousquet are making innovative
and delicious wines as good as or better than anything
made by conventional vintners, and a growing awareness of
the environmental consequences of conventional vintages is
making itself felt. Then, there’s the perception that organic
wine is healthier and results in fewer hangovers. While the
veracity of the latter largely depends on how much you
quaff, it’s true that fewer pesticides means fewer chemicals
in your glass and a correspondingly healthier product. But
with so many marvellous organic and biodynamic wines out
there, which do you choose? Here are a few of the favourites.
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AOC Champagne Fleury Vintage 1995 (France)
Why it’s good: Jean Pierre Fleury was the first producer in Champagne
to go biodynamic back in 1992. The 1995 vintage has a firm
structure with remarkable freshness, a sparkling intensity and great
longevity. It’s simply one of the finest champagnes available and was
the gold trophy winner at the International WINE Challenge in
2008.
Cullen Mangan Margaret River 2009 (Australia)
Why it’s good: Produced on a biodynamically certified and forward-thinking
estate, this is a wine that offers immense elegance and
freshness. Matured in French oak barrels for 12 months, the unusual
single-vineyard red blend of Malbec, Petit Verdot and Merlot has
intense mulberry and blackberry flavours and fine-grained tannins.
It’s very drinkable now but if you can wait a bit longer, it will be even
better in a couple of years.
The Millton Vineyards Te Arai Chenin Blanc 2008
(New Zealand)
Why it’s good: Pioneering, passionate and talented biodynamic producer,
James Millton makes the superb Te Arai Chenin Blanc on the
east coast of New Zealand’s North Island. Slightly dry and refreshing,
it has hints of pear, quince and honey. So good is this wine, it
features in Neil Beckett’s 1001 Wines You Must Try Before You Die:
quite a recommendation.
Gigondas ‘Terre des Aînés’ Montirius AC 2004
(France)
Why it’s good: A distinguished combination of Grenache and
Mourvedre grapes, ‘Terre des Aînés’ is rich and full-bodied with a
bright, berry tang. Unusually elegant for a Rhône heavyweight, it
has power and sophistication in spades
Stellar Fairtrade Heaven-on-Earth Sweet Muscat
(South Africa)
Why it’s good: An excellent sweet wine, which is both organic and
Fairtrade, Heaven-on-Earth represents fantastic value for money. Its
constituent Muscat D’Alexandrie grapes are partially dried on beds
of straw and local Rooibos tea, before being gently pressed and fermented.
Heaven-on-Earth is a real local speciality and an artisan
wine with a big personality and memorable flavours.
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Jean Bousquet Malbec Reserva 2008 (Argentina)
Why it’s good: The Jean Bousquet estate is committed to producing
world class wines by applying both French (the owner is from a third
generation French wine family) and Argentinean know-how in the
winemaking process, using the exceptional local terroir [soil] and
100 percent organic grapes. This deliciously smooth, award-winning
Malbec is proof that they have succeeded.
Domaine Josmeyer La Kottabe Alsace Riesling
2008 (France)
Why it’s good: The Meyer family converted this quality 28-hectare
estate to organic and biodynamic culture towards the end of the 90s.
Their 35-year-old vines create a mineral scented Riesling in a drier
style than you would usually expect from Alsatian wines, replete with
hints of citrus and spice. The spiciness of the wine is underpinned by
a firm backbone of crisp apple acidity. Delicious!
Rueda Sauvignon Blanc Palacio de Menade 2009
(Spain)
Why it’s good: An award–winning white with intense tropical and
citrus fruit flavours and great balance. Well structured and elegant,
this is a refreshing, clean and uplifting take on the classic Sauvignon
Blanc.
Coyam Emiliana 2007 (Chile)
Why it’s good: From one of the largest biodynamic vineyards in the
southern hemisphere, this Chilean red has become a cult wine. Winner
of the first ‘Best Wine of Chile’ competition with the 2001 vintage,
it features a blend of five grape varieties (Syrah, Cabernet, Carmenere,
Petit Verdot and Mouvedre), aged in oak for 13 months. The
resulting wine is big, with soft, spicy, berried tones that are positively
gluttonous and long lasting. There are hints of blueberry and dark
chocolate too, wrapped in gentle well managed tannins.
San Polino Helichrysum Brunello di Montalcino
2004 (Italy)
Why it’s good: Bottled in 2007, this wine is made in tiny quantities
from old-fashioned, low yield Sangiovese vines grown only on one
particular hillside. It’s certainly not cheap but if you’re lucky enough
to get your hands on a bottle you’ll understand why. Hugely complex
with leather, spice, plum, cherry and chocolate notes all knitted
together with a lively acidity. It has been described as an ‘opera of
wine’ - a couple of sips will show you why.
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HOW TO:
Store Fruit & Vegetables Without Plastic
You gotta love summer’s abundant fruits and vegetables: Strawberries, juicy tomatoes,
fresh carrots, dark leafy spinach, spicy arugula. If you’re busy harvesting all of this organic
goodness from your garden, you’re probably wondering what the best way to keep it fresh
and tasty as long as possible. Yes, plastic baggies and cling wrap may be popular containers
for storing food, but there are better, less-wasteful, less-plastic options.
Here are some fantastic tips provided by the Berkeley Farmer’s Market on how to extend
the life of your produce in and out of the refrigerator, without resorting to plastic.
Apples —Store on a cool counter or shelf for up to two
weeks. For longer storage, place in a cardboard box in the
fridge.
Arugula —Arugula, like lettuce, should not stay
wet! Dunk in cold water and spin or lay flat to
dry. Place dry arugula in an open container, wrapped
with a dry towel to absorb any extra moisture.
Asparagus —Place the upright stalks loosely in a glass
or bowl with water at room temperature. Will keep for a
week outside the fridge.
Basil —Difficult to store well. Basil does not like to be
cold or wet. The best method here is an airtight container/jar
loosely packed with a small damp piece of paper inside, left
out on a cool counter.
Beets —Cut the tops off to keep beets firm, and be sure
to keep the greens! Leaving any top on root vegetables draws
moisture from the root, making them loose flavor and firmness.
Beets should be washed and kept in an open container
with a wet towel on top.
Berries —Don’t forget, they’re fragile. When storing be
careful not to stack too many high, a single layer if possible.
A paper bag works well, only wash before you plan on eating
them.
Carrots —Cut the tops off to keep them fresh longer.
Place them in closed container with plenty of moisture,
either wrapped in a damp towel or dunk them in cold water
every couple of days if they’re stored that long.
Cauliflower —Will last awhile in a closed
container in the fridge, but they say cauliflower has
the best flavor the dayi t’s bought.
Corn —Leave unhusked in an open container if you must,
but corn really is best the day it’s picked.
Cucumber —Wrapped in a moist towel
in the fridge. If you’re planning on eating them
within a day or two after buying them, they
should be fine left out in a cool room.
Eggplant —Does fine left out in a cool room. Don’t
wash it, eggplant doesn’t like any extra moisture around its
leaves. For longer storage, place loose in the crisper.
Greens —Remove any bands, twist ties, etc. Most greens
must be kept in an airtight container with a damp cloth to
keep them from drying out. Kale, collard greens, and chard
do well in a cup of water on the counter or fridge.
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Green beans —They like humidity, but not wetness.
A damp cloth draped over an open or loosely closed
container.
Melons —Keep uncut in a cool dry place, out of the
sun for up to a couple weeks. Cut melons should be in the
fridge; an open container is fine.
Peaches (and most stone fruit) —Refrigerate
only when fully ripe. Firm fruit will ripen on the counter.
Rhubarb —Wrap in a damp towel and place in an open
container in the refrigerator.
Spinach —Store loose in an open container
in the crisper, cool as soon as possible. Spinach
loves to stay cold.
Strawberries —Don’t like to be wet. Do best in a
paper bag in the fridge for up to a week. Check the bag for
moisture every other day.
Sweet peppers —Only wash them right before you
plan on eating them because wetness decreases storage time.
Store in a cool room to use in a couple of days, place in the
crisper if longer storage is needed.
SUMMER SQUASH —Does fine for a few
days if left out on a cool counter, even after cut.
SWEET POTATOES —Store in a cool, dark, well-ventilated
place. Never refrigerate, sweet potatoes don’t like the
cold.
TOMATOES —Never refrigerate. Depending on ripeness,
tomatoes can stay for up to two weeks on the counter. To
hasten ripeness, place in a paper bag with an apple.
ZUCCHINI —Does fine for a few days if left out on a cool
counter, even after cut. Wrap in a cloth and refrigerate for
longer storage.
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TOMATO’S GREEN SHOULDERS
How Tomatoes Lost Their Taste
Decades of breeding the fruits for uniform color have robbed
them of a gene that boosts their sugar content.
Have you ever bitten into a ripe tomato picked
from a plant? Yes, I know that all tomatoes
come from plants, but one that you’ve picked yourself and
ate while still warm from the sun. Do you remember how
flavorful those are? That’s how they are opposed to taste.
If you compared that with the ones you purchase
from a supermarket, the latter taste like water
with a dash of tomato flavor. What’s wrong with those lame
supermarket tomatoes?
You are probably thinking that pesticides and
fertilizer have crippled the flavor of the red
vegetable, and you are also thinking that picking them when
not completely ripe and ship them across nations would affect
their flavor. But that’s not the reason.
By chance two separate groups of plant geneticists
found that the lack of flavor has to do with the
search for perfect redness.
If you were around 30-40 years ago, maybe you
can recall noticing a green or yellowish zone near
the stem, tasteless and tough to eat. This is called the green
shoulder.
Farmers didn’t know, until now, that the green
shoulder is responsible for the tomato’s sweetness
and complexity and when in the 30s a strain of tomato
uniformly red was discovered, commercial farmers quickly
adopted the tomato variety with no green shoulder just because
it looked prettier. But that perfectly red tomato missed
the key element that would harvest the Sun’s energy and
store it in the vegetable, the green shoulder.
Thanks to Harry Klee,a professor of horticulture
at the University of Florida, farmers can now
switch back to the less pretty but tasty tomatoes for the joy
of our taste buds.
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