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So you don't want to be part of the United States?
This sums up the demonstration:
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More than sixty thousand farmers and supporters from workers’ and environmental organizations marched through Mexico City on Jan. 31 to avoid this fate. It was one of the largest mobilizations to date to reject the Monsanto game plan, and it’s no coincidence that it took place in the heart of the Aztec Empire.
Olegario Carrillo, president of Mexican small farm organization UNORCA, addressed the crowd in the central plaza, “During the last 30 years, successive governments have tried to wipe us out. They’ve promoted measures to take away our lands, our water, our seeds, plant and animal varieties, traditional knowledge, markets. But we refuse to disappear.”
It's not about GM corn, it's about a race of people using Monsanto as an excuse to once again tell their government they don't want to integrate with the rest of Mexico.....
BTW, in 450 posts you have yet to prove gene splicing is detrimental to anyones health. Almost every post you make proclaims the imminent demise of GM crops and Monsanto yet all the statistics from around the Earth show the exact opposite..... Hmmmmm
And to think of the people who believed in him and still believe GMO's are harmful....
Leading Anti-GMO Activist Reverses Position
JAN 23, 2013 07:58 PM ET
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One of the staunchest critics of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), environmentalist Mark Lynas, recently said he had been mistaken and that the threat of GMOs had been exaggerated by him and others for years.
According to an article on Slate.com, “If you fear genetically modified food, you may have Mark Lynas to thank. By his own reckoning, British environmentalist helped spur the anti-GMO movement in the mid-‘90s, arguing as recently at 2008 that big corporations’ selfish greed would threaten the health of both people and the Earth.
In an address to the Oxford Farming Conference earlier this month, Lynas began with an apology: “For the record, here and upfront, I apologize for having spent several years ripping up GM crops. I am also sorry that I helped to start the anti-GM movement back in the mid 1990s, and that I thereby assisted in demonizing an important technological option which can be used to benefit the environment.”
Feel free to accept the truth about GMOs anytime..and may be we can even save the HONEY BEE population before it is gone...BUT WAIT...isn't tere some corporation(s) ready to introiduce a GM variety of the bee? SImilar to the mosquito? and the salmon?
It has been said since the first GMO corn was introduced and MONARCHs starting dropping..despite the objections of the best trained shills, the truth is unavoidable. GMOs have and continue to desimate our food sourc and environment.
"The American Midwest’s corn belt is a critical feeding ground for monarchs, which once found a ready source of milkweed growing between the rows of millions of acres of soybean and corn. But the ubiquitous use of herbicide-tolerant crops has enabled farmers to wipe out the milkweed, and with it much of the butterflies’ food supply."
Feel free to accept the truth about GMOs anytime..and may be we can even save the HONEY BEE population before it is gone...BUT WAIT...isn't tere some corporation(s) ready to introiduce a GM variety of the bee? SImilar to the mosquito? and the salmon?
It has been said since the first GMO corn was introduced and MONARCHs starting dropping..despite the objections of the best trained shills, the truth is unavoidable. GMOs have and continue to desimate our food sourc and environment.
"The American Midwest’s corn belt is a critical feeding ground for monarchs, which once found a ready source of milkweed growing between the rows of millions of acres of soybean and corn. But the ubiquitous use of herbicide-tolerant crops has enabled farmers to wipe out the milkweed, and with it much of the butterflies’ food supply."
Hmmmmmm, I wonder why you didn't post this part of the NYT article (or do you not know the difference between Monarch Butterflies and Monarch Bees?):
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The area of forest occupied by the butterflies, once as high at 50 acres, dwindled to 2.94 acres in the annual census conducted in December, Mexico’s National Commission of Natural Protected Areas disclosed at a news conference in Zitácuaro, Mexico.
The latest decline was hastened by drought and record-breaking heat in North America when the monarchs arrived last spring to reproduce. Warmer than usual conditions led the insects to arrive early and to nest farther north than is typical, Chip Taylor, director of the conservation group Monarch Watch at the University of Kansas, said in an interview. The early arrival disrupted the monarchs’ breeding cycle, he said, and the hot weather dried insect eggs and lowered the nectar content of the milkweed on which they feed.
That in turn weakened the butterflies and lowered the number of eggs laid.
I love it...... They are clueless as to why the decline..... THEY THINK, THEY GUESS..... Oh yeah, great proven scientific techniques.....
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"The decrease of Monarch butterflies ... probably is due to the negative effects of reduction in milkweed and extreme variation in the United States and Canada," the fund and its partner organizations said in a statement.
I wonder why the NYT source redacted the statement made by Omar Vidal, the World Wildlife Fund director in Mexico....
Any ideas or clues zthatz?
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Ode to the MONARCH BUTTERFLY
