Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[mdnagel@verizon.net]

Well, one would like to think so, but there's a witches brew of crap out 
there, and I'm sure that any challenges to its safety will face something 
similar as has happened with challenges to Agent Orange.  And about Agent 
Orange (ref http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange):

The earliest form of the compound triiodobenzoic acid was studied by Arthur 
Galston as a plant growth hormone. The research was motivated by the desire 
to adapt soybeans for short growing season. Arthur Galston is widely known 
for the social impact his work had on science. This defoliant was modeled 
after Galston’s discovery of triiodobenzoic acid in 1943. Galston was 
especially concerned about the compound’s side effects to humans and the 
environment.[3]

Galston found that excessive usage of the compound caused catastrophic 
defoliation — a finding used by his colleague Ian Sussex to develop a family 
of herbicides[4] (Galston later campaigned against its use in Vietnam). These 
herbicides were developed during the 1940s by independent teams in England 
and the United States for use in controlling broad-leaf plants.
...

During the Vietnam war, between 1962 and 1971, the United States military 
sprayed 20,000,000 US gallons (76,000,000 l; 17,000,000 imp gal) of chemical 
herbicides and defoliants in South Vietnam as part of the aerial defoliation 
program known as Operation Ranch Hand.[13]

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So, here we have scientists' work becoming co-opted by government for lethal 
purposes.  And note the cute program name used in Vietnam.  Yes, think Blue 
Skies Act, and the myriad of other good-sounding titles that hide the murder 
that the government engages in.  Moral of the story: mess around with Mother 
Nature and die (either directly, or via the government)!

Oh, and just who manufactured Agent Orange?  Go ahead, guess.  DOW and 
Monsanto!


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA


Jul 13, 2010 06:17:52 AM, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

>With this much being planted it looks like we should be getting some idea of 
>the 
>actual impact of deployment of GE crops. Another one of those uncontrolled 
>experiments 
>of which we become subjects.
>
>---- Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote: 
>> 
>> Adoption of Genetically Engineered Crops in the U.S.
>> http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/BiotechCrops/
>> 
>> 
>> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>>