Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Art Corbit" <art_c@cox.net>]

Hi Greg,

This is just one of many examples of how Mother Nature takes care of her
own. If we tried harder to work with nature instead of against her like we
are you would no doubt see a lot of things like this. If you try to kill off
one bug like the bollworm you are breaking the food chain and this usually
has an ill effect in some way. No doubt the numbers declined in what ever
depends on the bollworm for food. Sometimes this can start a domino effect
and cause serious problems. This is what happened in this case.

Art

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Bell" <gregbell@znet.com>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing"
<livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Transgenic cotton drives insect boom


> > The researchers found that populations of other cotton pests,
particularly
> > ones called mirids, have blossomed. These were once killed by the same
> > broad-spectrum pesticides used to control the bollworm.
>
> Well, that's kind of disturbing.  Stop using the pesticides, the pests
> bloom.  Do organic farmers know something the GM-using farmers don't?
>
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