Ahhh yes, the joys of

Ahhh yes, the joys of industrialized, mega farmed, genetically mutated foods.

Besides the toxins we ingest every day from the agricultural bounty of CHEEP foods, we now must contend with Glyphosate resistant weeds that have figure out how to also ignore the poison sprayed upon the genetically modified crops, engineered to ignore and absorb the poisons.

Monsanto has made billions in profits creating these monsters as they defect the genome of corn and beans to accommodate their products. In the end, you and I will suffer for their greed and pay not only a higher price but the possible destruction of the remaining 6 corn strains left on the planet.

Kewl, supper weeds that will destroy harvesting equipment, I can see the trailer of the new SciFi movie now!

If the following link is not official enough, you can toon into AM580’s market report, heard daily at 2:00 on WILL to learn more about this rapidly growing problem. Oh that’s right! It’s probably not official because it’s a liberal, left wing organization that never provides any kind of value to our society, unlike Murdock.s FOX News that determines what you decide, while they hack your phone.

Pulled probably 400 Water Hemp from my ground this year, 40 to 100 year old seeds brought to the surface by plowing. Can’t wait to see what happens when the super plants are brought to life 60 years from now.

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And so the deception

And so the deception continues.

Recently a local TV affiliate, promoted flu shots for ailments that were not confirmed to be the flu (see flu thread). Now their network, on the evening news last night, lied in their report that the rising food costs were because of the instability in the Middle East.

It’s so handy to blame those wanting freedom, especially after we spent decades supporting Middle East dictators. Nearly all of whom are Sunni’s that abused tortured and killed their opponent Shia rivals, who are now are in revolt along with anyone else who dares want freedom.

Never mind and of course never report the fact that food prices have been climbing for months and one reason why the people are in revolt because they can no longer afford to eat.

Never mind that a national farm association has repeatedly sided with international corporation who conspire to control all food production and distribution. Never mind that that same association with local representation all over the country, have helped destroy the small farmer and any hope of sustainable agriculture.

Never mind that world wide, we are in a crisis mode for grain, created by the massive increase in Ethanol production, shortages created through your tax dollar subsidy. Consumption of food for fuel that will create even greater food shortages, as all crops become short supplied because corn becomes one of the most profitable crops, crowding out the others.

Never mind that the unbridled capitalism that the regressive hawks have turned loose upon us, now tramples beneath their industrialized hooves any hope for tomorrow. Letting the stock market predators who see greener pastures than those of Wall Street, now speculate in the commodity markets, inflating even further those commodities already under pressure.

Never mind that beginning later this year, grains will have to be rationed due to these issues and heaven help us if there is any weather related crisis, because the entire world will erupt as it goes hungry.

You think gas prices are high? Wait until Christmas, because if you think driving to work bankrupts you, wait until you try and buy the holiday meal.

Mothers Flesh At the recent

Mothers Flesh

At the recent Illinois state fair, a group of state agricultural associations involved in crop and animal production, announced they were beginning a public relations campaign. Their goal is to counter research showing, “that consumers like farmers, but have doubts about modern farming methods.”

With this in mind it seemed appropriate to provide you with some talking points of your own, to have available the next time you meet an Agri-Business person. Let’s begin with the greatest agricultural con game of all time - ethanol.

So how does ethanol help our energy independence, when it takes more energy to produce a gallon of ethanol than a gallon of ethanol provides? No wonder the Bush Administration spent huge sums of our tax dollars on it! And speaking of low performance, you might want to note that ethanol only has (E) 85% of the thermal energy of gasoline.

Bio fuels such as ethanol have been shown to produce many times more of the green house gas CO2 than does gasoline. Especially when you factor in the huge energy consumption associated in planting, harvesting, processing and transporting ethanol. A product that cannot be distributed through our current pipeline infrastructure since ethanol would destroy it.

And speaking of destruction, without your tax dollars the ethanol industry would collapse overnight and has only existed since its creation, not from market forces but by tax payer funding through the agricultural welfare system.

Immediately following the Bush administration’s enthusiastic support through government funding of ethanol, corn commodity markets shot up to record levels, forcing a great hardship on the poor of South America who saw their primary food staple double in cost over night.

Then there are the security and health issues. With homeland security having total dictatorial powers in times of crisis, will people go hungry in order to feed the machines of war with food from the fields? And who gets priority, the energy companies or crying children when a massive crop failure occurs, such as the one that occurred in Russia this year?

Meanwhile, recent medical studies continue to indicate that fructose (corn syrup) found in nearly everything eaten today, may actually feed and nurture cancer cells. To say nothing of the obesity epidemic that has risen in tandem with the increased use of fructose.

As for quality of food, how does continual feeding of antibiotics to cows that stand 24 hours a day in their own excrement and urine help assure my health? How does feeding corn to cows whose bodies were never intended to eat such things and who must be slaughtered early or their livers will fail because of eating corn, make a better quality meat?

And please… until you have eaten grass feed organic beef, do not regurgitate the programmed line that corn fed beef is better.

Recently we’ve seen what kind of calamity can occur when we industrialize agriculture, warehousing millions of animals in factory designs that can only be maintained through massive antibiotic usage. Centralized systems that when failing, create a nationwide food and medical crisis that increases the cost for us all and sometimes the ultimate cost in life.

Complex and destructive industrial systems of animal confinement that will eventually breed super bugs resistant to any current treatment, causing acute food shortages. Drugs fed by the ton to animals we eat, creating huge profit centers for international pharmaceuticals who make them, antibiotics that the Government has warmed agriculture to begin curtailing because the threat is growing daily.

Then there’s the destruction of the land, the nurturing Mother of us all, who continues to be neglected and abused. Around my organic farm today the land is sterile, no life, no bio-diversity. Our little farm is an organic oasis in the middle of the corn-bean desert, assaulted regularly by the storms of poison. Poisons in many forms, from the sprays used on the crops to the crops themselves.

Locally we see our Counties water reservoir continue to fill with Mother’s rich soils. Land stripped away by those who see no harm in what they do, assuring everyone that they are good stewards of Mother’s gift. Yet their work can be seen clearly in a river that cannot be seen through, where Mother’s flesh has been poisoned, ripped from her and sent to a watery grave.

Of course the saddest thing in all of this is the impact we have on millions of others far removed. Once some of Mother’s flesh has settled to the bottom of Lake Vermilion, the rest along with the poisons and energy intensive nitrogen used by agriculture, ends up in the Gulf of Mexico, where it destroys sea life in massive dead zones.

Then we have better living through chemistry.

After sixty years of continual and ever increasing chemical use, we have now evolved (Darwinized) herbicide resistant weeds that can no longer be controlled. Weeds that have adapted to the chemicals and have become so robust as to render current herbicides useless and harvesting equipment fruitless.

Today, Frankenstein crops are all the rage in an agricultural lifestyle once called husbandry. They’re called GMO’s (genetically modified organisms) that have been genetically engineered in the laboratory to be resistant to herbicides and/or to create their own poisons. Sewn together monsters with heinous potentials, some that have now escaped into the world to run amuck and begin terrorizing Mother’s floral and creature children.

These are Frankenstein species that can now begin to blend with other plants, potentially creating unknown calamities. These are toxic field crops that we eat everyday in our foods and are never told about, crops that insects pollinate, carrying destruction to their hives and colonies.

And what do international corporations, growers and suppliers do in response to all of this, why tout “cheaper” foods as something positive, while seed companies sue those who would dare keep their traditional open-pollinated seeds from former generations, in planting next years crop.

Sue them, because the farmer’s seed now shows genetic markers of the corporations patented seed that jumped fence and polluted the farmer’s crop. And what’s a poor farmer to due when their seed has been taken away? Why buy the expensive and patented “hybrid” seed from those who sued him.

And all of this is at the industrialized agriculture end of the story, an area now dominated and politically controlled by international corporations. Now these same international conglomerates have their sights set on you and your neighbor, those pesky civilian critters who keep eating away at their profits by feeding each other.

To further assure long term and complete monopoly of the food supply, our purchased politicians have introduced Senate Bill S 510, called the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010. A law that will make it not only illegal for the population to keep seeds from year to year but will make it a crime to grow, own, trade, transport, share, or feed each other from our gardens.

Don’t you love it when a plan comes together for multi-national corporations, our politicians puppeteers.

Lastly, at the for-mentioned Illinois State Fair event an Illinois farmer stated, “there are some folk’s who are trying to discredit agriculture”. I don’t know about you but it doesn’t appear that they really need any help from us, as they seem to be doing just fine on their own.

However, what is desperately needed, is an intervention by the village before the village ends up starving for the benefit of the few, who wallow delightfully in the filth of greed and false pride.

So don’t forget… visit a farmer’s market soon while there’s still time, before they’re featured on America’s Most Wanted and on the run for dealing veggies.