"The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet"
What is described in this potential Bayer-Monsano merger is most definitely a dire development for mankind.
It seems that we are passing through a period of greed, fraud, and treachery dominated by corporations against the well being of the people and the environment.
Basserdan, I'm so happy that this article contains the Russian model that works in modern times using past practices. I repeat it here.
"Essentially, what Russian gardeners do is demonstrate that gardeners can feed the world – and you do not need any GMOs, industrial farms, or any other technological gimmicks to guarantee everybody’s got enough food to eat. Bear in mind that Russia only has 110 days of growing season per year – so in the US, for example, gardeners’ output could be substantially greater. Today, however, the area taken up by lawns in the US is two times greater than that of Russia’s gardens – and it produces nothing but a multi-billion-dollar lawn care industry."
The old gardening and farming ways are obviously superior in producing food. I was raised under this approach from one of my Grandma's whose roots stem from Eastern Europe. It is arduous multi-product or "mixed" gardening, the environment benefits from its methods used and the food produced is outstanding.
I know small-scale organic farmers in the Philippines and they can produce an abundance of food during non-drought periods.
I blame American society for our current predicament. Our progress is our regress in disguise. A once agrarian society has morphed into 98% of it citizenry dependent on 2% producing food mostly on large mono-crop corporate farms growing food with petrol-chemicals to promote crop growth in the absence of vitality growth. This system absurdly ignores the risk of too few food producers in time of a calamity. I read somewhere that there is a 3-day food supply on grocery shelves!
Americans in the millions deserted gardens in favor of big-box grocery stores that moves vegetables, fruits, and herbs from farms by plane and train to distant destinations. This home garden desertion stemmed from being overwhelmed by "modernism" and over time it progressed to the point that food is taken for granted.
In the 1950s, many American families voted for having the greenest lawns in place of food gardens. Scott fertilizers jumped into supplying the fertilizers. I can recall when the local farm supply company had to switch to lawn products as the local farms sold out to make room for housing developments, another modern trend.
Many food consumers opened the door by supporting the big-box stores for convenience and cheaper products. Buying organic non-GMO products and/or growing in organic gardens are all votes against the GMO producers. The ball is in our court!
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