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Post by MikeH on Jun 9, 2013 10:24:02 GMT -5
Panel on Public Domain Plant Breeding with Carol Deppe, Al Kapuler, a Monsanto rep, etc
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Post by MikeH on Jul 17, 2013 13:22:09 GMT -5
My Favorite Neonicotinoids Neo Neo Neo Neonicotinoids
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Post by steev on Jul 18, 2013 0:30:52 GMT -5
Having worked for both Ortho Home and Garden, and Bayer, I thoroughly repudiate their chemical orientation. While I get that we are facing a global food crisis, I reject the ridiculous notion that we must produce, through technology, ever more food, while failing to deal with human reproduction; which is to say, those who will need that ever-expanding (through technology) food production, if we fail to get a grip on how many babies we can responsibly produce. We cannot put our reproduction on "god", which doesn't care if we destroy ourselves. The idea that we are the most important of "god's" works is sheer hubris; suitable, perhaps, for a three-year-old, but for adults? Really?
I regret it if I offend anyone, but I think the problem is theirs, not mine. We can only push the ecosystem so far, before it starts to collapse or push back. The notion that "my" group deserves to increase is fine, but only if one recognizes that one's group increases at the expense of one's neighbors, who may have a different opinion (this is the sort of thing that leads to war, a singularly unproductive activity). When any organism (even one convinced that it is the crown of creation) exceeds the carrying capacity of its ecosystem, ecosystem collapse occurs. Technological cleverness will only prop up a finite amount of stupidity and denial. We are poisoning our life-support system for profit, and most of us aren't even getting any of that profit.
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Post by MikeH on Aug 3, 2013 4:03:45 GMT -5
Zoom in on 41.3657, -99.667 on Google maps. It's a mile wide. One wonders what the dark brown areas are. Lagoons? ?
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Post by richardw on Aug 3, 2013 5:24:26 GMT -5
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Post by MikeH on Aug 3, 2013 7:09:24 GMT -5
Yep, a big one + 700 acres. Supposedly the biggest in the US.
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Post by richardw on Aug 3, 2013 15:04:22 GMT -5
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Post by steev on Aug 4, 2013 21:49:34 GMT -5
It's unsafe to put that crap back in the fields; it tends to be full of salt and antibiotic-resistant bacteria. It's an unnatural product of an unnatural system. Cattle never evolved to live in such confinement, so they must be drugged and fed feed they aren't suited for. Turning a natural process/system into an industrial/factory system has repeatedly come back to bite us in the ass, sometimes fatally.
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Post by MikeH on Aug 12, 2013 16:07:49 GMT -5
This gives a better feel of the feedlots. It's from Food Inc.
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Post by steev on Aug 13, 2013 13:43:13 GMT -5
Umm, yes; not sure I want a better feel of the feedlots.
My neighbor farmer was thrilled to discover a large dairy where they'd load his truck with cowcrap, on his way to the farm. One day, he scored a load, which he then shoveled and spread around his plantings. By the end of the week-end, he was sick as a dog, stopping to spew from one end and/or the other frequently during his 2 1/2 hour drive home, where his wife, an MD, IVed him fluids and electrolytes.
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Post by MikeH on Aug 13, 2013 15:23:50 GMT -5
Being downwind must be a treat. The smell of money can be pretty overpowering.
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Post by steev on Aug 13, 2013 17:30:14 GMT -5
Don't think I'd want to be downstream, either. Years ago, there was a tremendous poultry industry around Petaluma; the waste seeped into the groundwater to the point that well-water was hazardous due to nitrate levels, among other solutes.
Actually, I think a whiff of money distracts many people from some pretty awful stenches.
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Post by MikeH on Sept 15, 2013 9:30:12 GMT -5
A compilation of three summer months from inside the beehive. From colonisation of the empty hive to the days following the swarm (that probably reduced the colony to less than half the number). The ten clips that make up this compilation are also available in regular speed.
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Post by steev on Sept 16, 2013 0:00:32 GMT -5
Is there really no music related to honeybees, rather than bumblebees; not that I don't like bumblebees. I'm not sure I don't like them better; they work a longer shift, for no more pay.
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Post by MikeH on Sept 20, 2013 18:30:50 GMT -5
With Bees Without Bees
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