permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>]

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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