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Oh good grief. Give me a frikkin break. There is absolutely no reason to genetically modify bananas other than profit and control.
Via GMO Free USA
“GM bananas are, a waste of time and money, an unnecessary risk and a strategy to take control of the banana in its centre of diversity and the region with highest production and consumption,” says Vandana Shiva, noted Green activist. NOT the answer.
If you eat or buy food, you should all watch this. If you live on this planet, you should watch this. I pray you watch this. It makes a statement like nothing else can, putting into perspective what will happen should Monsanto and our government’s continued approval of their GMOs be allowed to continue, taking us all (and the planet) down the slippery slope that it puts us on.
We’re jumpstarting a new movement, and we need your help.
It’s simple math: we can burn less than 565 more gigatons of carbon dioxide and stay below 2°C of warming — anything more than that risks catastrophe for life on earth. The only problem? Fossil fuel corporations now have 2,795 gigatons in their reserves, five times the safe amount. And they’re planning to burn it all — unless we rise up to stop them.
In November 2012, Bill McKibben and 350.org hit the road to build a movement strong enough to change the terrifying math of the climate crisis. The Do the Math Tour was a massive success, with sold out shows in every corner of the country.
The tour is now over, but the campaign it launched is just getting started.
— M. King Hubbert, U.S. Energy Resources: A Review as of 1972 (quoted in Biophysical Economics: From Physiocracy to Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology)
(Source: perscientiamlibertas, via wespeakfortheearth)
New Zealand Parliament bursts into song after passing their marriage equality bill. Beautiful.
Terry Hash pauses after searching in the cracked soil for cotton seeds in his 175-acre cotton field in Garfield on Thursday, August 18, 2011. Hash planted 800 acres of cotton, corn, wheat and sorghum, and almost all of it was destroyed by the drought. Despite having insurance, Hash said he worries about how he is going to pay his farm loans and borrow more money for next season’s crops. ‘Lots of sleepless nights,’ Hash said. ‘You lay in bed wondering what the hell you’re going to do.’ Image: Jay Janner
- “Well it’s hotter ‘n blazes and all the long faces / there’ll be no oasis for a dry local grazier” – Tom Waits
- “What we’re seeing is stark evidence that the gradual temperature increase is not the important story related to climate change; it’s the rapid regional changes and increased frequency of extreme weather that global warming is causing. As the Arctic warms at twice the global rate, we expect an increased probability of extreme weather events across the temperate latitudes of the northern hemisphere, where billions of people live.” - Jennifer Francis
- [W]hen we learn that in the collapse now underway resides the seeds of a different style of agriculture that does not carry all the historic baggage that burdens us, we may, with good justification, rejoice.” – Albert Bates
As the toxic trappings of industrial civilization crumble around us, agriculture is set to regain its place at the forefront of our daily American lives. …And won’t we be surprised to find out that it barely works anymore! Worsening climate destabilization, combined with the legacy of industrial ecosystem degradation and the loss of crucial pre-industrial agricultural genetics and knowledge, will severely challenge our ability to feed ourselves in the decades ahead. So perhaps it’s time we re-think our modern food-acquisition strategies in the face of the massive changes bearing down on us. …And I mean REALLY re-think them.
(via wespeakfortheearth)
6 chemical companies are counting on all non-GMO consumers to give up hope and surrender to GMO takeover. Are you ready to surrender?
Let’s take back our food supply. Join us on GMO Inside:http://gmoinside.org/
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