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[Cory Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com>]

Thanks very much  for sending this out broadly - please, others, forward this 
to your lists. If we keep doing that alone, just effectively exposing the 
crimes of Monsanto and pressuring others to not participate, we will bring 
Monsanto down eventually.  

I am forwarding and supporting a campaign to pressure grocery stores to 
eliminate GMO corn, and another one to make GMO crops illegal in Calif.  I 
can't spend too much time on activism, but this is a key area that needs 
reform, and it doesn't take that long for any of us to take some action. 
Monsanto is a leverage point - the ugliest of the ultra-ugly - where we can 
turn the tide of destruction.....


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USDA Scientist Reveals All
Glyphosate Hazards to Crops, Soils, Animals, and Consumers
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/USDA_scientist_reveals_all.php




In less than an hour, Don Huber, professor emeritus at Purdue University and 
USDA senior scientist (see Box) delivered to the UK Houses of Parliament a 
damning indictment of glyphosate agriculture as a most serious threat to the 
environment, livestock, and human health 

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They look more like robo wwoofers than farmers to me. At first sight very
slow and expensive to run. Are they rain resistant even with all that wiring
hanging out? Do they have to move back over the horizon to get the next
seed?
If our food future really depended on these things I'd say we are doomed.
john

> More industry propaganda...crude, ignorant and counter-productive.
>
> Man working against himself and his environment:  Video: Swarming Teams of
> Robo-Farmers Will Change the Face of Agriculture | Popular Sciencehttp://
> www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-12/video-prospero-swarming-farm-bot-wants-change-face-farming
> :Farming has always been about man, says David Dourhout, but man is now
> the
> limiting factor in agriculture. The future of farming is not about getting
> more efficiency out of each farmer--the human farmer has already been
> pretty well optimized by technology. Rather, the future is about getting
> more production out of each tract of farmland. The future, in other words,
> is Prospero <http://news.discovery.com/tech/zooms/swarm-bots-111221.html>,
> Dourhout’s swarming, game-theory-crunching fleet of autonomous
> robo-farmers."
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