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Ecomike: the verbiage that I used could easily be misunderstood and/or misinterpreted. The spectra of trace minerals, et al, are vital to produce nutritionally dense food. So the selection of substances that are to be in one's food is virtually copied from what naturally (I avoid the term, normally.) transforms, in each native location and environment.
Ecomike: Please send me your email address in a private reply. Now some of my explanations and references will be rather technical.
The first and simplest approach when dealing with agribusiness, especially Big Six, shills and trolls is that they have zero actual peer-reviewed studies. Therefore, their claims immediately become worthless.
Bovines succeed far greater when on an essentially grasses diet. Grains, such as corn (maize) and soybeans for bovine is part of the mythology that has been perpetuated for some time. The grain trap is the produce more fat in the animals. That is not altogether necessary or even helpful towards the animal's overall health and quality of milk and meat.
Ecomike: there is a radical difference between transgenic (GMOs) plants and animals and hybrids. Hybrids can and have naturally occurred without any manipulation by mankind. Hybrids simply carry a larger genetic inventory. The parents maintain their whole composition as does the new subspecies. GMOs are made through retrovirology, just like their forerunners: AIDS/HIV. They are not whole organisms and do not break down, in rhythm, as "normal" organism do.
It is good to be suspicious and even cynical about how things play themselves out. Still, each one of us has the opportunity to be proactive to craft one's own life and well being, in a positive manner.
Ecomike: every whole food has a trace of one or more dangerous chemicals. Yet, in the way that the chemical[s] are bound in the food, the digestion of the food allows the immune system to maintain itself in peak performance. It is also one of many reasons why even the concept of vaccines is harmful for living organisms.
Organic and natural are like so many other words whose etymology has altered their connotations and denotations. The essential inference with organic is that it is free from the introduction of non-organic and/or naturally occurring substances. The first presumption is that organically grown foods are free from pesticides and petroleum-based fertilizers. Other definitions are added from there.
sumisu: months ago, I could have thought that Rockefeller Foundation's publicity via Time magazine was favorable. The article is more than mere fluff as it looks to distract that the real solid culprit is glyphosate. The below work is rather technical. I encourage everyone to spend the time to grasp it. Any hangups on technical jargon or phrases, simply make separate notes for them and then go back armed with that particular understanding. http://gmoevidence.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/BeesYet_Another_Suspect_in_CCD_2_.pdf
“People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.” (Wendell Berry)
This video may scare even the Big Six shills and trolls. Monsanto's Round-up has become nearly ubiquitous in the air, water, and earth, as well as in animal and human tissue. The glyphosate absorbed by Round-up Ready crops disrupts animal and human gut bacteria and is the culprit is a large laundry list of infirmities. The increased incidences/occurrences of autism has become near epidemic. This will get pretty technical, but please focus and grasp the processes of how terrible it has been to most of the world, but most especially to the U.S.A.
Key phrases to help one follow along: "shikimate pathways" "CYP genes (cytochrome P450 ... enzymes)" "dysbiosis" "organic sulfur" "mineral and micro-nutrient depletion."
http://player.vimeo.com/video/65914121?autoplay=1
Here's the research abstract that Stephanie Seneff helped deliver: http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/WAPF_Slides_2012/Offsite_Seneff_Handout.pdf
moxa1:thanks for posting this; the increasing occurrences of autism simply cannot be ignored.
IxCimi: Snick! Snick! You sound like me. So far, I have only found one horned tomato caterpillar in my garden this year. I laughed because it was literally covered with Braconid wasp larvae. Last year, I took several dozen partially decomposed apples and piled them some thirty to forty feet from my plot. Eventually yellow jackets built nests among the Kousas. Having wasps and hornets are a fundamental for having a micro-ecology.
sumisu: the leaves were collected last year in the fall. They were put in a massive leaf corral surrounded by wire. I only turned them a few times, until spring. While I do crush a small percentage of outer dry leaves, the turning and the worms do a fairly equal job of breaking them down.
Ants make their homes against walls and large stones. Remove the large stones and ants go elsewhere and aphids have no guardians. In initial preparation of a spot or row, I run an iron rake across the top to cull the easy rocks. Then I go over the spot again and then rake again. That pretty much takes care of the rocks. The rocks serve their purposes for me elsewhere.
My Swiss Chard row is maybe fifteen feet. I get to eat some almost every day.
My dad taught me to work smart; not hard. Still, when one considers the raw, denotative meaning of "kung fu," it is: hard work and practice. Any land, that has not been poisoned, can easily be made fruitful by applying simple fundamentals. A sensei, once commented to me, at his dojo, in his disappointment at how his class wanted to do all the "fancy" moves. He said by mastering six fundamentals/basics, one could become invincible. That is pretty much the same with gardening. It is only hard, if one does not enjoy doing it.
sumisu: Aack! One of the great features of planting Swiss Chard is to keep plucking the biggest leaves. All my plants have four leaves maximum. They just keep growing back. My small patch will continue to feed me well into the fall.
The enzymes are so powerful in my leaves. I cannot imagine trying to eat those monsters; I might pass out. Snick! Snick!
Ah yes! Where would my garden be without leaf compost.
This picture was taken several weeks ago. It houses butternut squash. My landlady considered this garden space to be worthless. Wanting to keep as much space between my squashes as possible, I broke new ground. First, I got all substantial rocks out. This means no ants. Then I added from two types of last years compost piles. Then, of course, partially rotted leaves were added for mulch and future soil.
sumisu: It pretty much looks like this: http://www.agriculturesolutions.com/images/stories/virtuemartdescriptions/1690-86203_S.jpg
The fork was years ago from A.M. Leonard's commercial catalog which is quite different from the gardeners catalog.
http://www.amleo.com/product.aspx?p=VP-AMF
sumisu: They do not even list my Number One tool: a mini-tiller; sometimes called a mini-maddox. My three-prong version with a 24" handle is on its third decade. A variety of gloves is good, especially if one starts playing around briars. A dual-wheel "wheelsbarrow" is highly versatile. Also, I have lots of five-gallon buckets. I agree with the Felco pruners; simply the best. However, I also have folding saws. An ensilage fork is used almost every day on my compost piles. Shovels and rakes receive comparably minor duty.
sumisu: partially rotted leaves are filet mignon for worms. Fresh leaves are often used as "green manure." I do not worry about weeds, per se. Outside of the weeds that I use for ground cover, I keep an eye out for those that attract Japanese Beetles. Once living soils has the proper spectra of nutrients, including minerals, one's own composting efforts will recycle those nutrients. It is one of the principles of bio-dynamics.
Here are two articles that are related to each other. I apologize, in advance, if their combination fails to cause an emotional outburst.
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=132556&CultureCode=en
http://www.nospray.org/RGpoison2.shtml
toddao: having seen so much crap pulled over the past decades, my gut reaction to the news of the BM "Bombing," was: here we go again. "News" is seldom what it appears to be.
My experiment with growing some Chinese Radish in pots proved to be rather interesting. Firstly, they came out great and briefly held first place for the best and tastiest, until ones that I pulled out yesterday. Yowza! I don't think that I would recommend trying containers for parsnips unless you have monster pots. Snick! Snick!
Secondly, lettuce and Swiss Chard in pots appears quite well also. This year has been the first in a few to have Japanese beetles around. They're only a minor nuisance for now. If necessary, I'll set out some pheromone traps at a distance away from the garden. Seventeen years ago, at another gardening site, I had to replace the tiny supplied bags with garbage can bags. Late that fall, I applied Bacillus popillae. I was hoping that I wouldn't have to do that here.
IxCimi: I just finished rereading Lost Crops of Africa: Volume 1 Grains. I did an unsatisfactory job the first time. Oh well, never too late to learn. Fermentation of sorghum, when properly done, eliminates not only the tannins, but also breaks done proteins that are otherwise indigestible. Many Africans in these impoverished areas already utilize fermentation for some of the grains. Most folks hearing fermentation and grains in the same sentence think only of alcoholic beverages. A number of African beers has little or no alcohol. They are a form of delivering digestible and nutrition-enhanced foods.
IxCimi: Well, the Rockefeller Foundation created FDA sticks its nose where it does not belong and becomes blind to the very things that supposedly they were supposed to do. It is virtually insanity that they are not labelled in "foodstuffs." It is quite bizarre to see the tobacco folks sit on the sidelines on this ... or is it?
The FDA, along with the USDA, and EPA, have long been a Hegelian prop that certain folks have embraced as part of their favorite ideology-ism and/or partisan-ism. Yet, when one observes the real occurrences, it's Amerikkkan fascism, regardless of the euphemistic names/labels that are assigned. You said, "Hide the pea." Yeppers; as long as the sheople have two choices; both of them bad, then they can be easily manipulated.
Since we need to turn and educate a portion of the sheople to cause instability to the NWO's architecture, then we play our own game. The GMO issue is the best opportunity to educate hoi polloi, since the Con-Con scam.
Here's a reference video, almost 90 minutes long, that the members here can handle.
sumisu: Thank you, but please do not despair. I made the decision some time ago that since I probably made so many lists, I was just going to step out on the Internet. Social media has led the charge to beat back the intrusion of GMOs. The marketplace may well bring the necessary changes before the polies do. The demand for non-GMO labelled products grows daily. If they don't act quickly, the likes of General Mills and General foods may well go the way of AOL.
A bee expert ally on Google+ posted this comment on one of my posts, a number of days ago.
moxa1: this pig study is quite damning; especially since it jumped through the "peer-reviewed" litmus-test hoops.
http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14900:evidence-of-gmo-harm-in-pig-study
sumisu: Creeping Charlie (Glechoma hederacea) is earlier and lasts over two months. It's shallow rooted and easy to rip off shoots for biomass for composting. Also the article cited Heather. However, it is Erica species, commonly known as Heath, which are the early flowerers; some even carrying on from winter.
sumisu: what lunacy; I would have expected so much more from CARE. It shows how the NWO is tightening the vise. In developing nations, especially across Africa, women do virtually all the farming. The several governments of the world sold developing nations on the concept of bread. Don't get me wrong; bread is not bad. Corn (maize), Asian rice, and wheat replaced staple crops in so many nations and they are far more adaptable to the increasingly negative conditions of depleted soils and climates.
In Africa, solutions to restore ecological balance, especially concerning the severe problem of the quelea and then witchweed (Striga). Striga van be controlled by fallowing the ground and planting Desmodium uncinatum. This will essentially choke out the witchweed and then provide green manure for the soil. Innovative netting solutions could restore the spirits of so many discouraged farmers who have had total loss of grains, cereals, and grasses due to the quelea.
Diversifying with the various kinds of millet, African rice, fonio, sorghum, teff, etc., along with kicking out the U.N., the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Big Six, most missionary groups, and anyone else who meddles in the diverse sovereignties of a people, is what is needed.
sumisu: I have been experimenting with quite a variety of plants growing them in pots. My Chinese radish is rather massive. Let's hope that the hypocotyl is also up to the task. Hmmm, haven't tried squash yet. Thanks for the suggestion.
An activist knows that he/she needs all the allies that come his/her way. However, most are programmed for destruction. It’s fine to mention the Military Industrial Complex (MIC) and their dangers; however I will take an aside from Albert Camus here. Events and affects are not linear. The MIC is organized by think tanks, which are more appropriately called policy institutes. There, the corporatism media and corporatism academia, public and private: intermingle, cross-pollinate, and cooperate.
One of the results is what is put forth in Political Science courses. In the ‘60s the slang for this was poly-sci. When I observed what was really taught, I tabbed it poly-sci-fi. (I still usually have to explain this to folks.) Political spectra are NOT linear. Its whole inception is pure Hegel. The thesis and antithesis of left and right is an example of planned opposition. How do I know this? Observe the synthesis: the left is the right. Well, I just slaughtered many folks’ sacred bovine, but someone has to be the hatchetman and the trumpet blower.
When one looks at highly influential folks in the arena of politics, over the past decades, and looks at their resumes, before and after, one sees the world of academia. The quintessential example would be Zbigniew Brzezinski. Is he left or right? Pundits on both “sides” have never been able to give an answer. Here the media follows the academia to select the approved talking points for the populace. The populace seems to never see the policy institutes behind the curtain and thus the machinations of the MIC. They understand Camus and therefore practice patient gradualism. Their goals are really never finally accomplished. The activist must be the same way. Any victories are transitory. At the end of The Plague, Camus noted, “the rats will return to the city.” Therefore, we must always keep trying. There is always that hope that activists will be focused upon the task at hand and not be infected with any sort of MIC disease.
sumisu: maybe, you and I are on the very cusp of an interesting scientific breakthrough. I am actually only half-joking. No ants means no aphids. One would think that because ants can be an enemy of worms, that this situation could not exist.
Now the black ant does like to make its nest against walls, rocks, and/or under stones. I long ago removed any significant stones from my plot (although they're around as markers). Could this is the reason?
sumisu: something I had never noticed until this year that in my entire garden plot, there are no ants. Up above where my landlady and another tenant garden, they have ants. I wonder if it is because of my living soil; replete with worms and fungi.
oo_buck: he only has a shard of the equation. To stem desert spread and restore the land, one must first plant and nurture trees. It may take him another thirty years to figure that out. However, he did pierce one mythology about the ecology of animals and the food supply.
I consider this a rather chilling article, given the current warfare against bees.
http://www.defense.gov/specials/bees/
sumisu: Woot! I love the idea. I will, of course, be stealing it. Many kudos to you!
Sorry to change the flow that you guys having been having here, but this was just too good to pass up.
First, I rooted for Cassius Clay (pre-Muhammad Ali), when it wasn't cool or chic. Everyone was for Sonny Liston. The first time that I saw Dennis Rodman (no relationship to Hitlery Clinton), play in the NBA, he was guarding Larry Bird. He was the one and only player that could guard Mr. Bird. I continued to root for Sir Dennis, even though it just wasn't cool.
Well, His Coolness has repayed me for my faith in him.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/10/rodman-rips-obama-north-korea_n_3253294.html
Let's see the POTUS "worm" his way out of this one. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Sometimes I just slay myself. Snick! Snick!
b4atf: The White/Paper Birch has been tapped in the winter for its sap, along with the Sugar Maple. I never make it into syrup, as I enjoy the sap way too much. The tender new twigs of the White Birch have been eaten by me for years. Granted, I chew on them for quite a bit, but I've swallowed the bark.
bagwa-john: they'll be there, but just too rank to eat. However, there will be plenty of low-bush blueberries, birch bark, and my favorite: wintergreen (the whole plant is edible).
Well, bam; great news trumps being skillful with charts and stuff.
oo_buck: Cool; except one does not sneak a 7' Japanese Maple. It would be worth several thousand dollars and require a truck to move the root ball.
Zorro: Wow! Another blast from the past contributes to this "growing" board. Good to see that you're still above ground.
bagwa-john: In Malawi, I ate the leaves as a vegetable relish for sema.
I received an email from Pandora, this past week, that they had reached two hundred million registered users. Yes, that doesn't translate into the paid subscribers, yet it does help build a base for revenues. As an aside, it wasn't too many years ago that the CNN model and the Amazon one were ridiculed. I'm not making a direct comparison to either, however not all these self-styled pundits actually knows what they are talking about.
Back at you, bro; I long ago traded my 16 for a lethal pen. I keep going after the genre of people who sold us all out. Of course, they want to take away everyone else's weapons, while people like the company formerly known as Blackwater, create deadlier and deadlier force to be at the feral gumit's beckoning call (Like they did in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina; going house to house and seizing weapons.).
We are all still soldiers and not just merely vets. Monsanto, who did in many of our fellows, has been pushing seed monopoly and selling poison for food. They are the main thrust behind the GMOs which the feral gumit allows NOT to be labelled as such.
We will never forget the traitorish role Monsanto played with us.