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Sepp Hasslberger: Wheat is Toxic Because of Monsanto Round-Up Applied Right Before Harvest

01 Agriculture, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

How come you allow and even recommend (it's the harvest ‘protocol') glyphosate poison to be applied to a food grain 7 to 10 days before harvest? Is it any wonder people get sick eating foods containing wheat?

The Real Reason Wheat is Toxic (it’s not the gluten)

Wheat harvest protocol in the United States is to drench the wheat fields with Roundup several days before the combine harvesters work through the fields as withered, dead wheat plants are less taxing on the farm equipment and allows for an earlier, easier and bigger harvest
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Sepp Hasslberger: Nigerian Public Refuses Monsanto GMO Crops — We Predict ISIS Will Begin Targeting Monsanto

01 Agriculture, 03 Environmental Degradation, 07 Health, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, 10 Transnational Crime, Civil Society, Commerce, Corruption, Earth Intelligence, Ethics
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

Africans push back against Monsanto's modified proprietary seeds

5 Million Nigerians Oppose Monsanto’s Plans to Introduce GMO Cotton and Corn

One-hundred organizations representing more than 5 million Nigerians, including farmers, faith-based organisations, civil society groups, students and local community groups, have submitted a joint objection to the country’s National Biosafety Management Agency (NABMA) expressing serious concerns about human health and environmental risks of genetically altered crops.

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Medard Gabel: Regenerative Development — Going Beyond Sustainability

03 Environmental Degradation
Medard Gabel
Medard Gabel

Regenerative Development: Going Beyond Sustainability

By Medard Gabel
In the Current Edition of Kosmos Journal

Sustainable Development is a half-vast approach to vast problems. Its purpose, to make life on this planet sustainable, is a noble disguise for the maintenance of the status quo. When the status quo includes hundreds of millions of acres of degraded to destroyed farmland and leveled rainforest, depleted to exhausted fisheries and aquifers, toxic-choked streams, decreasing biodiversity, and a changing climate, sustainability is simply not acceptable. In short, sustainable development is like the bromide ‘do no evil’; it does not set the bar high enough. We can, and need, to do better than just sustain the unacceptable—or accept the present as the best we can do.

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Frances Moore Lappe: Farming for a Small Planet – Agroecology Now

01 Agriculture, 03 Environmental Degradation

Frances Moore LappeFarming for a Small Planet: Agroecology Now

Frances Moore Lappé

April 2016

The primary obstacle to sustainable food security is an economic model and thought system, embodied in industrial agriculture, that views life in disassociated parts, obscuring the destructive impact this approach has on humans, natural resources, and the environment. Industrial agriculture is characterized by waste, pollution, and inefficiency, and is a significant contributor to climate change. Within so-called free market economics, enterprise is driven by the central goal of bringing the highest return to existing wealth. This logic leads inexorably to the concentration of wealth and power, making hunger and ecosystem disruption inevitable. The industrial system does not and cannot meet our food needs. An alternative, relational approach—agroecology—is emerging and has already shown promising success on the ground. By dispersing power and building on farmers’ own knowledge, it offers a viable path to healthy, accessible food; environmental protection; and enhanced human dignity.