Udo Frentzen

Read:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070711134523.htm.

Also the Rodale Institute’s 30 year study of side by side agriculture practices,and the report: Failure to Yield

Also http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/12/organic-can-feed-the-world/249348/#

and here is the UN’s report http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/officialreports/20110308_a-hrc-16-49_agroecology_en.pdf. And that’s just off the top-of-my-head.

Now hopefully you’ll stop promoting this bullshit MYTH that chemical and transgenic agriculture is meant to feed us or that it is the only way.

The green revolution has only existed for 50 years and failed in most cases (my country is one of those cases: we were self sufficient before it and still could be and now we import our most basic staples from subsidized commercially-dumped, mass-produced, unhealthy sources. We are the centre of origin of some of the most nutricious and useful crops in the world and now we pay royalties to foreign countries to produce them (also called biopiracy).

In the cases where the GR did succeded it was only to mass produce speculative, subsidized garbage food used for processed foods that are makeing people fat, allergic, diabetic, etc; and of course fuels. Transgenics are only the next step in that spiral.

Organics are not the trendy Wholefoods products that you think they are, they are the basis for the REAL agriculture that has fed humanity for thousands of years that deal with healthy soils and water supplies with low inputs and closed cycles that ARE economical because they are renewable and are healthy because they produce many different things for our nutrition and that of the soil.

Plants need more than 34 nutrients (that we know of) and chemical agriculture provides four. Herbicides kill weeds by not allowing the minerals the plant needs to be utilized by the plant. Herbicide resistant crops substitute and get-by but they don’t have substantially lower amounts of these minerals in them. We also need these and many others whoch we are not getting. What we are getting is poison. Herbicides like glifosfate have been found to damage or kill testicular cells, kidney cells, to cause birth defects and infertility. All this is what we are eating and because they do not degrade and seep in to the water we drink that is what we are drinking too. Do a little research.

Now if after you read all this you still don’t believe. Then ask yourself this: do companies like Monsanto exist to feed the world? Do they exist to help others help themselves? or do they exist to make profits? If you honestly believe that they care for your nutrition and the food soverengty and safety of poor countries and if knowing all the risks associated with this kind of agriculture you’re still fine with it, then be my gest and take a spoonfull of Roundup to prove it to yourself.