[permaculture] permaculture Digest, Vol 76, Issue 3
Bryce Ruddock
bruddockjr at wi.rr.com
Sun May 3 20:12:19 EDT 2009
For a mycorhizal root dip try Musser Forests, or Fungi Perfecti. Both are
reputable and have good products. For their urls just google search. Bryce
Ruddock
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> 1. Re: Swine flu linked to Va based Smithfield foods (Mathew Waehner)
> 2. suitablility of clay for building ponds (Rain Tenaqiya)
> 3. Re: Swine flu linked to Va based Smithfield foods
> (Lawrence F. London, Jr.)
> 4. OpEdNews ? Scientists Discover That Conservatives Are
> Brain-Dead (Lawrence F. London, Jr.)
> 5. Re: mycorrhizal root dip gel (tom)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 14:29:16 -0400
> From: Mathew Waehner <waehner at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Swine flu linked to Va based Smithfield
> foods
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> I never thought I would be defending Smithfield foods, but keeping animals
> in monoculture somewhat reduces the risk of new hybrid strains of
> influenza.
>
> Pandemics usually result when flu viruses from different species hybridize
> in the same cell. The current strain is said to by a hybrid of bird,
> human,
> and swine flu. Confinement agriculture isolates pigs from birds, removing
> one chance of hybridization. Crucially, it also isolates poultry from
> migratory fowl, who spread the newest bird flu genes across the planet.
>
> Flu pandemics happen regularly, and most of the new viruses appear to have
> arisen in the sustainable polycultures of Asia.
>
> Once a virus does enter a confinement animal system, it will spread like
> fire through gunpowder, exposing the human workers to a high level of
> virus,
> which gives viruses that aren't well adapted to human hosts plenty of
> chances to infect humans.
>
> The quote in the original article about factory farms breeding antibiotic
> resistant bacteria is true, and it is a compelling reason to stop
> supporting
> that toxic system. But it is a red herring in a debate about influenza.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Toby Hemenway
> <toby at patternliteracy.com>wrote:
>
>> Interesting that I keep hearing the media say, as in the article Keith
>> posted . . .
>>
>> > A dangerous and rapidly spreading
>> > strain of influenza . . . has killed over
>> > 150 people in Mexico,
>> while the World Health Organization website says, as of May 1,
>> http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_05_01/en/index.html
>>
>> Country Cases Deaths
>> Mexico 156 9
>>
>> Sounds like the fearmongers are confusing total cases with deaths.
>> Be afraid, be very afraid.
>> Fear makes us compliant.
>>
>>
>> Toby
>> http://patternliteracy.com
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 12:47:26 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Rain Tenaqiya <raincascadia at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [permaculture] suitablility of clay for building ponds
> To: permaculture at lists.ibiblio.org
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> I'm building a two acre foot pond to irrigate our permaculture
> demonstration site and I'm having difficulty identifying appropriate soil
> for building the dam and lining the pond.? We have quite a mix of soils
> varying from sandstone-derived loam to serpentine-derived clay.? Is the
> clay content the most important variable?? We have some very high clay
> content soil that has a crystal like structure when exposed.? It is very
> expansive, and when dry, it gets blocky and is easily broken up.? I think
> it would be fine where it will be under other layers or always wet.? Does
> anyone have any answers or comments on this?
> ?
> Thanks,
> ?
> Rain
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 22:11:19 -0400
> From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj at intrex.net>
> Subject: [permaculture] Re: Swine flu linked to Va based Smithfield
> foods
> To: permaculture <permaculture at lists.ibiblio.org>
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> =http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/permaculture/2009-May/033160.html
> =while the World Health Organization website says, as of May 1,
> =http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_05_01/en/index.html
> =
> =Country Cases Deaths
> = Mexico 156 9
>
> BBC News just now:
>
> SWINE FLU:
>
> Confirmed death toll in Mexico rises by three to 19 people
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 03:25:11 -0400
> From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj at intrex.net>
> Subject: [permaculture] OpEdNews ? Scientists Discover That
> Conservatives Are Brain-Dead
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> http://www.opednews.com/articles/Scientists-Discover-That-C-by-Mick-Youther-090502-579.html
> Scientists Discover That Conservatives Are Brain-Dead
> by Mick Youther Page 1 of 2 page(s)
> www.opednews.com
> Okay, I exaggerate a little. Conservatives are not really brain-dead;
> their brains just don?t work as well as Liberal
> brains when it comes to dealing with change.
>
> <....>
>
> ?You turn the AM on and there?s Rush, or Savage, or another of the army
> of right-wing radio talk show hosts. You may
> not be listening hard, just working, driving, doing busywork or the
> laundry. Yet if you listen day after day, year after
> year, your brain will begin to change. ...Words, even those heard casually
> and listened to incidentally, activate
> frames--structures of ideas that are physically realized in the brain. The
> more the words are heard, the more the frames
> are activated in the brain, and stronger their synapses get--until the
> frames are there permanently. ...All this is
> normal. It is how words work. And the right-wing message machine has found
> a way to take advantage of it - activating,
> as it were, a conservative system of thought. ...One diatribe after
> another, the crucial facts left out or lied about,
> day after day, city after city. It has an effect.?--George Lakoff,
> Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at UC
> Berkeley, The San Francisco Chronicle, 4/19/09
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 08:59:23 -0400
> From: tom <tom at honeychrome.com>
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] mycorrhizal root dip gel
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> I'm gearing up for a weekend of bare-root seedling planting and
> wondered if there are any opinions or particular product
> recommendations on a mycorrhizal root dip gel?
>
> Thanks
>
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