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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: Re: [SANET-MG] GM contaminated honey
  • Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:04:57 -0500


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Subject: Re: [SANET-MG] GM contaminated honey
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:17:57 -0500
From: Steve Gilman <stevegilman@VERIZON.NET>
To: SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU

Hi All,
Even though corn plants propagate among themselves through anamophily (literally, "wind love") and don't require bees for pollination, corn is a major insectary plant as its pollen is a prodigious protein food source for a wide range of beneficial insects, valuable to farmers and gardeners alike. Studies by entomologists Robert Bugg and others further document that beneficials such as ladybugs, lacewings, wasps, minute pirate bug, etc. also feed on the nectar from annual and perennial flowering plants for carbohydrates.

Insectary plants also provide high quality room along with board, as they provide protective habitat and shelter for insect instar growth stages and reproduction. As an added bonus many of these beneficials serve as effective wild pollinators -- increasingly important as Colony Collapse Disorder and other honeybee maladies take their toll.

So, when you throw these (proprietary) laboratory-created transgenes willy-nilly into the foodweb (for profit) -- there's substantial wide-ranging ecological effects up and down the line. And since those transgenes express in every part of the corn (soybean, canola, cotton, alfalfa, sugarbeets, etc) plant, including the kernels, leaves, stems, roots -- and root exudates -- then you're also contaminating the vast soil foodweb -- the very basis of our existence. Now THAT'S insanity!!

Steve





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