{"id":317,"date":"2011-03-10T07:59:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T12:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/the-case-against-agrochemicals.html"},"modified":"2011-03-10T07:59:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T12:59:08","slug":"the-case-against-agrochemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/the-case-against-agrochemicals.html","title":{"rendered":"The case against agrochemicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<img align=\"right\" border=0 width=\"194\" height-\"206\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/www.gloubik.info\/mason\/images\/perry-mason7.jpg\">\nSome people didn&#8217;t like the source of a recent post about\nthe toxic effects of agrochemicals and GM plants on the environment,\nplants, animals, and people.\nThere are plenty of other sources, including:\n<H3>How big agro causes the problem<\/H3>\n<ul>\n<li>\nVandana Shiva on the pesticiders&#8217; strategy, why it&#8217;s bad, and\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/monsanto-shouldnt-get-away-with-it-anymore-vandana-shiva.html\">\nwhat to do about it.<\/a>\n<li>\nSome specific U.S. cases of <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/01\/factory-farming-admits-it-needs-collateral-damage.html\">\nbig agro gaming the regulatory system at the expense of the environment.<\/a>\n<li>\nInternational cases of\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/07\/gmo-regulatory-capture-produces-human-guinea-pigs.html\">\nMonsanto gaming regulatory systems.<\/a>\n<li>\nHow Monsanto\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/12\/how-monsanto-leverages-patents-to-dominate-world-food-supply.html\">\nleverages patents to dominate the world food supply.<\/a>\n<li>\nThe Fox-can-lie case, in which\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/10\/monsanto-made-fox-rewrite-80-times-about-rbgh-in-florida-cows.html\">\nMonsanto made Fox rewrite 80 times about RBGH in Florida cows<\/a>\nand the courts said that was OK; Fox can lie.\n<li>\nMonsanto\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/monsanto-blocks-independent-gmo-research-in-the-us-la-times-op-ed.html\">\nblocking research.<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<H3>Evidence of the ill effects<\/H3>\n<ul>\n<li>\nU.S. president&#8217;s cancer panel sounding the alarm about\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/05\/cancer-in-the-air-food-and-water.html\">\n&#8220;Americans are facing &#8220;grievous harm&#8221; from chemicals in the air, food and water that have largely gone unregulated and ignored.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>\nScientific American on <a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/11\/pesticides-more-valuable-than-any-associated-detriments.html\">\n&#8220;The rapid adoption by U.S. farmers of genetically engineered corn, soybeans and cotton has promoted increased use of pesticides, an epidemic of herbicide-resistant weeds and more chemical residues in foods.&#8221;<\/a>\n<li>\nPeer-reviewed research\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/animal-miscarriages-from-new-fungus-or-virus-in-roundup-read-crops.html\">\non animal miscarriages.<\/a>\n<li>\nSterility and infant mortality\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/04\/hamster-roundup-sterility-and-infant-mortality.html\">\nin hamsters.<\/a>\n<li>\nLiver and kidney damage\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/03\/liver-and-kidney-damage-gm-crops.html\">\nin rats.<\/a>\n<li>\nResearch on toxic chemicals\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/01\/toxic-corn-and-cotton-pollute-our-streams.html\">\nfrom the GM plants themselves polluting streams.<\/a>\n<li>\nPesticides found in the urine of schoolchildren\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/08\/pesticides-linked-to-adhd.html\">linked to ADHD.<\/a>\nMore <a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/06\/pesticides-in-children.html\">about that, including a link to the actual peer-reviewed journal article.<\/a>\n<li>\nA German documentary\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/02\/germans-document-glysophate-poisoning.html\">\nwith research from Argentina and France, plus links I&#8217;ve added to that research.<\/a>\n<li>\nA French documentary\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/12\/the-world-inside-monsanto.html\">\nThe World According to Monsanto.<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<H3>There are ways forward<\/H3>\n<ul>\n<li>\nRemember,\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/12\/the-biotech-bully-of-st-louis-is-having-a-bad-year.html\">\neven Monsanto is not invulnerable, and in fact had a bad year in 2010.<\/a>\n<li>\nMonsanto&#8217;s Roundup no longer works on the mutant weeds it&#8217;s bred, so\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/11\/monsanto-spraying-itself.html\">\nMonsanto has to pay farmers to spray rival pesticides<\/a>\nand even that doesn&#8217;t really work.\n<li>\nThe most profitable crops\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/10\/corn-most-profitable-not-gm.html\">\nare non-GM crops.<\/a>\n<li>\nOrganic Farming Yields\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/10\/organic-farming-yields-often-better-than-with-agrochemicals.html\">\noften Better Than with Agrochemicals<\/a>.\n<li>\nLocal agricultural research\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/02\/pigweed-on-georgia-farm-monitor.html\">\non how to farm without Roundup.<\/a>\n<li>\nHow to do\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/07\/cultivating-organic-peanuts.html\">\norganic peanuts in particular.<\/a>\n<li>\nThey can farm without pesticides <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/01\/fewer-pesticides-for-higher-yields-if-they-can-do-it-in-west-africa.html\">\nin west Africa, they don&#8217;t damage the land, and they make more money.<\/a>\n<li>\nEven <a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/05\/haitian-monsanto-seeds-are-a-new-earthquake.html\">\nHaiti refuses Monsanto&#8217;s seeds, calling them &#8220;a new earthquake&#8221;.<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<H3>What you can do<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\nThings\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/what-can-you-do-now-about-food.html\">\nyou can do yourself to replace poisoned food with local and organic food.<\/a>\n<li>\nEspecially\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/01\/non-gmo-uprising-predicted-by-supermarket-trade-publication.html\">\nvote at the checkout counter.<\/a>\nIf you don&#8217;t know it&#8217;s local and non-GMO, don&#8217;t buy it.\nThere may be no labelling laws, but local supermarkets know what&#8217;s local.\n<li>\nProtests\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/02\/bt-brinjal-beaten-back.html\">worked in India.<\/a>\n<ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some people didn&#8217;t like the source of a recent post about the toxic effects of agrochemicals and GM plants on the environment, plants, animals, and people. 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