I think nothing of these herbicides is healthy. But I also think, that it differs from person to person. I read of several French farmers who won their cases in court, being around pesticides all the time, and developing sicknesses. I think though, that injecting poisons is way worse. We are not meant to be injected, plants are not meant to be sprayed with poisons - but at least, the plants you can wash, and hopefully they have not been sprayed in the last few days before you consume them. But injections cannot be withdrawn.
Most if not all of those 'cides hurt soil microbial heath, worms, and beneficial pollinator insects. It's not all about us, at least directly.
The poison injections are toxifying our targeted environment even more, with contaminated human excretions going into recycled water and those of jabbed animals going onto pasture and into filthy Augean stables.
absolutely. Imagine all the human and animal waste, with all this toxicity in it. I am against all of that chemistry, but I don't know if there is a way back for farms. I read Masanobu Fukuoka's books on poison free farming, but how are we going to get that done in today's world. Most soil is so depleted there is no way to return it to health in one generation.
We are mandated to inject all sorts of things that fall under the umbrella of "none of your business" including things like mercury so why wouldn't we wonder "what if glyphosate is getting in to our mandated none of your business containing injections"
It's not a comparison, only a comment touching upon how chemicals of potentially toxic or likely toxic and toxic in both combination and accumulation are being released into the food chain of plants, animals, the soil, rain, and city water in unconscionable amounts.
It's about how inflammation and chronic disease could be the result of exposure to and ingestion of hundreds of slightly unhealthy to dangerous chemicals via food and its production.
Studies that isolate chemicals and find none to only some slight level of toxicity don't account for total exposure over years via different products and vectors or how combinations of certain chemicals may adversely affect human, animal, and plant health.
For example, some "studies" say the mRNA shots say are safe and effective, and many people don't show any reaction to them (yet). Others say certain chemicals aren't bad for people, since they're only exposed when eating, say, a GMO crop food and that copious amounts would be necessary to trigger a physiological adverse reaction. But, perhaps combining the latter category of chemicals having little stand-alone toxicity that are in most of our food and city water with having taken the new "vaccines" or having been shed upon could be harmful.
Our doctors and university corporate grant recipients would never make the connection, because of too many variables and also because it'd be an inconvenient truth.
The insect world would not have grown tolerance if we hadn't have been poisoning them in the first place. I read Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring 40 years ago. I have a difficult time understanding how so much of the population is disconnected from nature. Common sense is your friend.
Sasha has a great talent for PAINTING, but that's about it... This post here explains why she represents PHARMA CARTELS, who will NEVER ADMIT ANYTHING about genetically modifying not only PLANTS (France has ZERO GMO's, thus MUCH LESS N-1phosphonomethyl-GLYCINE INSIDE of all foods, animals, soils, water, etc., etc.) but equally humans via covid genetically modifying injections, which most, if not ALL MD's, including Sasha, until this day falsely call 'vaccines'.
Go back and read all Prof. Serallini studies, go and read all lawsuits against Monsanto, there was one reason WHY the accusers got MILLIONS in reimbursements, all because of their cancers.. I did the scientific analysis on that topic for Zen, working with CHD at that time, many years back, and seems like RFK Jr. was involved in that too, which I didn't know. Of course lawyers cashed their huge money, but at least the entire endeavor ended with Monsanto being FORCED to merge with Bayer, well, still poisoning this planet..... Go and look at shelves in stores, Glyphosate everywhere, because some 'great scientists' will tell you that it's VERY safe to use, like the covid shots.. What a bunch of liars, everywhere.
If glyphosate was the cause of the cancer in America our leaders would mandate you eat pasta 3 days a week to keep your job or have your children attend school.
Bingo! Stephanie Seneff is on it big time. I generally don't recommend video presentations, but here's one for the more curious. 'Glyphosate's Sneaky Toxicity: The Slow Kill' Stephanie Seneff, Senior Research Scientist at MIT >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoXT7cXaVU0
Given all of the sprayed greens and wheat, corn and oat-based food sold in grocery stores, served in restaurants, and dished out at schools, there are no mandates needed to poison America.
Ha, but no need for all the rigamarole of Congress and the White House having to exempt themselves and given the possible pushback by domestic toxin-avoiding terrorists. As soon as bugmeal produced with Raid, Agent Orange, and Soma replaces our current contaminated flour and is the main ingredient in fake meat, a yummy near future will be ours, and we will be happy.
May I suggest a revision/addendum in the spirit of endorsing and supporting your post.
".. a yummy near future will be ours and we will be happy and own nothing"
I'm sure they'll point to a Biblical phrase or equivalent to justify it. They may even throw in some sacred Lincoln dialogue such as "by the better angels of our nature" to bolster it
We'll be awash in the equivalent of "do it to save granny"
The gas lighting is very subversive and designed to appeal to our better nature
How about this one, I'm sure there are plenty more
Mark 10:25
"“It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God"
Well there you go! SIGN ME UP. Take all my stuff and do what you need to do because I want to be a good person worthy of heaven.
So much of it is aimed at benign compassionate nominal Christian culture. Many other cultures are too street wise and cynical. But it sure works in the west. We are suckers for saving granny.
You will own nothing and you will be happy.
Promoted by the most evil people of our time (evil really does not change it just gets more sophisticated, gets DARPA to develop AI etc)
It will come to us served on curated propaganda lifted from our most sacred icons and beliefs. Like the Bible, Lincoln, Gandhi, whomever and what ever they can leverage to make you think and feel you have no choice but to be on their side else you'll be that camel who can't get through the needle's eye to enter heaven
It is the Satan's voice mimicking our sacred beliefs to manipulate us
Regardless of the “side effects” of glyphosate — scientifically proven or imagined by unicorns — glyphosate manufacturers and applicators MUST NOT be granted waivers for harms their products may or may not cause.
If glyphosate and other herbicide/pesticide products are so safe and effective, why would pesticide manufacturers need protections from legal complaints of harm? Just asking for a friend (and vaccine injured folks who already know the side effects of no-liability products).
It is my view Glycinated chemicals are more easily absorbed. I believe the genesis comes from Bio Warfare research. Dr. Malone certainly built on that research. The following is an excerpt from my book soon to be published.
The winner of Ugly award besides the killer and others goes to Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes who started out his career as a young Army Medical Corps doctor at the Edgewood Arsenal where biological experiments took place.
They included a drug called CAR-301,060 (also known as cis-2-Methyl-3-quinuclidinylphenylcyclopentylglycolate or just by its code number 301060) is a potent and long lasting anticholinergic deliriant drug, related to the chemical warfare agent 3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB). It was developed under contract to Edgewood Arsenal during the 1960s as part of the US military chemical weapons program, during research to improve upon the properties of earlier agents such as QNB.
"Worried about not getting enough glyphosate in your organic diet? Studies show you may decrease your risk with some cancers with Pfizer's new glyphosate supplement made with Bayer's Roundup. Talk to you Doctor if this is right for you. Side effects may include........"
I wouldn't put it past them. The corporations really tried to enlist Tennessee farmers to cling to glyphosate, this spring. Thank God the farmers stood up to them!
And still , the real defense the human body has is our god given immune system . Whilst toxins are ever present and all around us , as Del Bigtree put it ....the only thing that is designed to interfere with that shield , injected directly into the body are vaccines ....78 by the age of 18 and we're suppose to believe that's only enhancing our health.....I DON'T !!!🤷♂️🙏🙏🏾
When we were young teens, my father gave my brother and I 1/2 acre each on his SE Idaho farm to grow whatever we liked. We joined our land and pooled effort to grow corn. My father grew oats all around our parcel and cropdusted his grain. It was not possible to miss our field. We hand-planted and hand-harvested our corn. It was a lot of work but we sold out our entire harvest out of the back of our pickup to eager customers that came back again and again.
The next season we repeated our corn business with one important change: my Dad left the field surrounding ours un-planted and un-dusted. My brother and I spent many long hours hacking thistle down in the hot sun but we just couldn't stay ahead of it. We lost the entire crop. Many people don't think herbicides are important or even necessary to growing the foods they buy at the store. My brother and I beg to differ!
my little yard is unsprayed. Of the 50 plus peaches on my tree I had 4. All the rest was eaten by pests. Everyone eats my greens, crickets, rabbits, deer, you name it. On very small scale, it is possible to plant certain crops with others in rows to avoid some pests but not in large fields.
Thanks ! yes I tried several harmless methods which also seem harmless to pests. I guess they are all used to it now. When I use some repellent on myself, the only one getting nauseated is me.
It's a noble but often frustrating endeavor in raising crops and livestock, and to do it more responsibly can be doubly difficult. Who knows how the constant "geo-engineering" of the skies might contribute to the plunder by voracious insects and wildlife?
Here's to you coming across some potions and methods, soon, that will prove productive for you and your land!
Where I live, most years you have to think of a peach tree as ornamental. But yes, after many "pesticide"-free years and many peach trees that bloomed a few times and died, we--my long dead father gets the credit, not me--finally have a peach tree that bears fruit even in normal years, resists borers, and gives me a chance to compete with the ants and the resident possums to enjoy a basket full of peaches. Small, but they have that real Elberta flavor.
I said *a* peach tree. I don't know whether monocropping acres of nothing but peach trees could ever work!
I'm sorry for you. Using any "pesticide" always produces a vicious cycle, comparable in some ways with addiction. Yes, the first year, in fact the first ten years, without the poisons are going to be bad years. Pesticides kill the natural predators, so when you stop using them the pest populations rebound. Pesticides also cause pest species to evolve resistance, so when you continue using them they lose effectiveness. Anything but the total commitment to farming without poisons is a lose-lose situation all the way. And it's planned that way, to keep farmers dependent on corporations.
There are no farms close by, but as the bird flies, not too far for their pests to come eat my little bit I am sure.But I am grateful for every tiny basket of greens in early spring, and for the occasional decorative leaf on a store bought salad. As to the peach tree, he is a volunteer, grown from a pit I threw out with some water from the kitchen. Nothing goes to a waste if I can avoid it! Peach flowers are gorgeous, specially with a blue sky.
I think Fukuoka had peach or apricot orchards, but he was in Japan.
There is a solution that dramatically increases nutrient density and yield of the crop while eliminating weeds and pests, which are merely the messengers and repair/cleanup crew of a poor quality crop grown in dead, mineral poor soil. Soilsaviors.org. Former conventional ag guys. Check them out.
Whether right or wrong, here you are heading down an unfashionable line to flirt with unfashionable conclusions. I like that. I fact, I love it.
The thing about pesticides (they'e not nice!) is that my body gets a chance to run them out through a whole lot of physical processing. With jabs, I don't get to do that. The muck goes straight into the bloodstream, no beg-your-pardons.
Also, pesticides (I already said they're not nice!) aren't designed specifically to alter what makes my physical processing run. Antibiotics will do just that because they're made to do that. Same with Lipitor and statins and the rest of the gunk pushed by my local GPs - who are rapidly achieving the status of under-the-counter vape shop attendants. (Thanks to COVID we have lots of vape shops and pop-up nail salons where actual useful commerce used to happen.)
1998 Judge Osteen vacated the EPA analysis of tobacco smoking harms. He declared it null and void. He said the EPA cherry picked their data that based their numbers on a meta analysis of 11 studies (most put out by Johnson & Johnson) the analysis showed no increase or decrease in risk at the 95% confidence level, so they changed the confidence level to 90%, which doubled their margin of error - to achieve their pre announced results. The EPA ignored nearly 2/3rds of the data. The EPA started out with 30 studies but only choose 11 of the available studies. The EPA adjusted established protocols & scientific norms and failed to disclose important findings & reasonings.
One of those studies reported that children of smokers had less lung cancer. Of course they didn't want to use that study.
2002 the EPA won in appeal and overruled Judge Osteen ruling.
I'm in cattle country in Northern Rivers NSW Australia. The farmers DIET seems way different to city folk where I lived 15 yrs ago. They share home grown food and have a simple diet of red meat and plenty of vegetables and bread Not much refined processed packaged enhanced "food".They have low incomes and work almost 7 days a week.Very physical work.Although they don't seem to be living as long as their forefathers 100years back.The women in their late nineties.Yes nineties Men shorter of course around late 70's Only my observation and local contact in the past 8 years Also do use "roundup" like it's going out of style))domestic and land chemical sprays encouraged through govt. subsidies and educational use. No worms in the soil anymore
Primo ! Yin's the bee's knees and the butterfly's wings !! I so respect what you do here Sasha !!! *** Thoughts from a layman for what it's worth: In Brazil, during the 20teens, press coverage was all about a Zika out break that was purportedly carried by mosquitoes. So, there was a spraying campaign. This would have been a neonicotinoid which a neurotoxin that is decimating pollinator populations Zika was touted as causing birth defects including extreme encephalitis, cranial elongation, and limb truncation. ** My thought at the time was: these are the same widespread birth defects, now into a 3rd generation that have already been documented as being widespread in the progeny of US Veteran and Vietnamese populations who were both exposed to Agent Orange during the Viet Nam War. ** Agent Orange is a chemical weapon grade glyphosate. "Of course it kills people, it's a weapon of war !" (See Loose Cannon, Dick Hughes website.) ** There are many moving parts here. Is cancer the shill in a game of 3 card Monty ??? Beautiful !!!! Let's eliminated cancer from this equation : ) Let's determine exposure factors individually, and in combination with other exposures in various cohorts and populations !!!!! *** I grew up in western Pennsylvania Amish country. Some communities are more modern than others. It depends on elder council in individual communities. I would be shocked to learn that any of the Amish communities are using glyphosate !!!!!! ** There is widespread off-label use in Big Ag of glyphosate as a drying agent to increase yield just before harvest. This undercuts the aforementioned degradation factor as it occurs when used for killing weeds during Spring cultivation. This accounts for the near universal infiltration of glyphosate into our food system. There are even traces in certified organic products : (
In fact i use glysophate to take out weeds on the gravel and don’t particularly protect myself from the back spraying etc. did wonder if it was harming myself but now i see i am protecting myself. Fantastic news!
My children had surgery and received antibiotics immediately after birth. They are also vaccine injured. Glyphosate is patented as an antibiotic (among other things). I think a compromised gut microbiome can make a person more susceptible to vaccine injury.
I grow most of our own food, eat organic and include lots of fermented foods (kefir, sauerkraut, kombucha etc.) in our diet. We 'manage' vaccine injury through a healthy, natural diet realizing the injury will not be cured by food.
Bayer Crop Science has a new powerful broadleaf weed herbicide called Infinity Ultra.
Not making this up. It's a combo of two chemicals. For a plant, it's like being simultaneously hit by both a right uppercut and a left jab from Mike Tyson:).
I think nothing of these herbicides is healthy. But I also think, that it differs from person to person. I read of several French farmers who won their cases in court, being around pesticides all the time, and developing sicknesses. I think though, that injecting poisons is way worse. We are not meant to be injected, plants are not meant to be sprayed with poisons - but at least, the plants you can wash, and hopefully they have not been sprayed in the last few days before you consume them. But injections cannot be withdrawn.
Most if not all of those 'cides hurt soil microbial heath, worms, and beneficial pollinator insects. It's not all about us, at least directly.
The poison injections are toxifying our targeted environment even more, with contaminated human excretions going into recycled water and those of jabbed animals going onto pasture and into filthy Augean stables.
absolutely. Imagine all the human and animal waste, with all this toxicity in it. I am against all of that chemistry, but I don't know if there is a way back for farms. I read Masanobu Fukuoka's books on poison free farming, but how are we going to get that done in today's world. Most soil is so depleted there is no way to return it to health in one generation.
Soilsaviors.org
Wrong.
Why are you comparing pesticides to injections?
Why not?
We are mandated to inject all sorts of things that fall under the umbrella of "none of your business" including things like mercury so why wouldn't we wonder "what if glyphosate is getting in to our mandated none of your business containing injections"
It's not a comparison, only a comment touching upon how chemicals of potentially toxic or likely toxic and toxic in both combination and accumulation are being released into the food chain of plants, animals, the soil, rain, and city water in unconscionable amounts.
It's about how inflammation and chronic disease could be the result of exposure to and ingestion of hundreds of slightly unhealthy to dangerous chemicals via food and its production.
Studies that isolate chemicals and find none to only some slight level of toxicity don't account for total exposure over years via different products and vectors or how combinations of certain chemicals may adversely affect human, animal, and plant health.
For example, some "studies" say the mRNA shots say are safe and effective, and many people don't show any reaction to them (yet). Others say certain chemicals aren't bad for people, since they're only exposed when eating, say, a GMO crop food and that copious amounts would be necessary to trigger a physiological adverse reaction. But, perhaps combining the latter category of chemicals having little stand-alone toxicity that are in most of our food and city water with having taken the new "vaccines" or having been shed upon could be harmful.
Our doctors and university corporate grant recipients would never make the connection, because of too many variables and also because it'd be an inconvenient truth.
Maybe….however don’t forget the condition of the soil , which just soaks the pesticide up year in year out.
Soil was supposed to be rested , every seven years. And this was pre pesticides.
Also try growing anything without using it. I believe that the insect world has developed tolerance..
The insect world would not have grown tolerance if we hadn't have been poisoning them in the first place. I read Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring 40 years ago. I have a difficult time understanding how so much of the population is disconnected from nature. Common sense is your friend.
Great analysis and writing …. And also appreciated this comment. …and rags like NEJM and Lancet would publish without blushing.
Sasha has a great talent for PAINTING, but that's about it... This post here explains why she represents PHARMA CARTELS, who will NEVER ADMIT ANYTHING about genetically modifying not only PLANTS (France has ZERO GMO's, thus MUCH LESS N-1phosphonomethyl-GLYCINE INSIDE of all foods, animals, soils, water, etc., etc.) but equally humans via covid genetically modifying injections, which most, if not ALL MD's, including Sasha, until this day falsely call 'vaccines'.
Go back and read all Prof. Serallini studies, go and read all lawsuits against Monsanto, there was one reason WHY the accusers got MILLIONS in reimbursements, all because of their cancers.. I did the scientific analysis on that topic for Zen, working with CHD at that time, many years back, and seems like RFK Jr. was involved in that too, which I didn't know. Of course lawyers cashed their huge money, but at least the entire endeavor ended with Monsanto being FORCED to merge with Bayer, well, still poisoning this planet..... Go and look at shelves in stores, Glyphosate everywhere, because some 'great scientists' will tell you that it's VERY safe to use, like the covid shots.. What a bunch of liars, everywhere.
'Bout the same time I quit eating Corn Flakes.
Study the Amish,
If glyphosate was the cause of the cancer in America our leaders would mandate you eat pasta 3 days a week to keep your job or have your children attend school.
yup!
When it comes to glyphosate it might be informative to discuss with Stephanie Seneff from MIT.
Bingo! Stephanie Seneff is on it big time. I generally don't recommend video presentations, but here's one for the more curious. 'Glyphosate's Sneaky Toxicity: The Slow Kill' Stephanie Seneff, Senior Research Scientist at MIT >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoXT7cXaVU0
Given all of the sprayed greens and wheat, corn and oat-based food sold in grocery stores, served in restaurants, and dished out at schools, there are no mandates needed to poison America.
Yes but just in case you're trying to do your thing to avoid toxins we need mandates to make sure the dissidents are equally poisoned
Ha, but no need for all the rigamarole of Congress and the White House having to exempt themselves and given the possible pushback by domestic toxin-avoiding terrorists. As soon as bugmeal produced with Raid, Agent Orange, and Soma replaces our current contaminated flour and is the main ingredient in fake meat, a yummy near future will be ours, and we will be happy.
May I suggest a revision/addendum in the spirit of endorsing and supporting your post.
".. a yummy near future will be ours and we will be happy and own nothing"
I'm sure they'll point to a Biblical phrase or equivalent to justify it. They may even throw in some sacred Lincoln dialogue such as "by the better angels of our nature" to bolster it
We'll be awash in the equivalent of "do it to save granny"
The gas lighting is very subversive and designed to appeal to our better nature
How about this one, I'm sure there are plenty more
Mark 10:25
"“It is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God"
Well there you go! SIGN ME UP. Take all my stuff and do what you need to do because I want to be a good person worthy of heaven.
So much of it is aimed at benign compassionate nominal Christian culture. Many other cultures are too street wise and cynical. But it sure works in the west. We are suckers for saving granny.
You will own nothing and you will be happy.
Promoted by the most evil people of our time (evil really does not change it just gets more sophisticated, gets DARPA to develop AI etc)
It will come to us served on curated propaganda lifted from our most sacred icons and beliefs. Like the Bible, Lincoln, Gandhi, whomever and what ever they can leverage to make you think and feel you have no choice but to be on their side else you'll be that camel who can't get through the needle's eye to enter heaven
It is the Satan's voice mimicking our sacred beliefs to manipulate us
DARPA researched and endorsed
To save granny of course
Granny still died.
But at least we protected her.👍
Thank you, Ray Falciola, and you're right. My being facetious is far less appropiate than the hard truth of which you speak.
And spoken to save all of humanity, of course, from DARPA, AI, and unvarnished EVIL.
Regardless of the “side effects” of glyphosate — scientifically proven or imagined by unicorns — glyphosate manufacturers and applicators MUST NOT be granted waivers for harms their products may or may not cause.
Manufacturers and applicators are pushing hard for such waivers in states all across the country (at least two states, North Dakota and Georgia, have fallen for it: https://foodtank.com/news/2025/05/new-legislation-protects-pesticide-manufacturers-from-legal-complaints-of-harm/).
If glyphosate and other herbicide/pesticide products are so safe and effective, why would pesticide manufacturers need protections from legal complaints of harm? Just asking for a friend (and vaccine injured folks who already know the side effects of no-liability products).
It is my view Glycinated chemicals are more easily absorbed. I believe the genesis comes from Bio Warfare research. Dr. Malone certainly built on that research. The following is an excerpt from my book soon to be published.
The winner of Ugly award besides the killer and others goes to Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes who started out his career as a young Army Medical Corps doctor at the Edgewood Arsenal where biological experiments took place.
They included a drug called CAR-301,060 (also known as cis-2-Methyl-3-quinuclidinylphenylcyclopentylglycolate or just by its code number 301060) is a potent and long lasting anticholinergic deliriant drug, related to the chemical warfare agent 3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate (QNB). It was developed under contract to Edgewood Arsenal during the 1960s as part of the US military chemical weapons program, during research to improve upon the properties of earlier agents such as QNB.
If you want to cure or fix people you may get some money. Probably mostly private donations.
But if you want to kill people the money is nearly limitless
"Worried about not getting enough glyphosate in your organic diet? Studies show you may decrease your risk with some cancers with Pfizer's new glyphosate supplement made with Bayer's Roundup. Talk to you Doctor if this is right for you. Side effects may include........"
I wouldn't put it past them. The corporations really tried to enlist Tennessee farmers to cling to glyphosate, this spring. Thank God the farmers stood up to them!
+100 likes. LOL!!!
Tongue firmly in cheek
And still , the real defense the human body has is our god given immune system . Whilst toxins are ever present and all around us , as Del Bigtree put it ....the only thing that is designed to interfere with that shield , injected directly into the body are vaccines ....78 by the age of 18 and we're suppose to believe that's only enhancing our health.....I DON'T !!!🤷♂️🙏🙏🏾
When we were young teens, my father gave my brother and I 1/2 acre each on his SE Idaho farm to grow whatever we liked. We joined our land and pooled effort to grow corn. My father grew oats all around our parcel and cropdusted his grain. It was not possible to miss our field. We hand-planted and hand-harvested our corn. It was a lot of work but we sold out our entire harvest out of the back of our pickup to eager customers that came back again and again.
The next season we repeated our corn business with one important change: my Dad left the field surrounding ours un-planted and un-dusted. My brother and I spent many long hours hacking thistle down in the hot sun but we just couldn't stay ahead of it. We lost the entire crop. Many people don't think herbicides are important or even necessary to growing the foods they buy at the store. My brother and I beg to differ!
my little yard is unsprayed. Of the 50 plus peaches on my tree I had 4. All the rest was eaten by pests. Everyone eats my greens, crickets, rabbits, deer, you name it. On very small scale, it is possible to plant certain crops with others in rows to avoid some pests but not in large fields.
Right, there are non-toxic oils and other treatments for plants and pest deterrence that have worked for me. Perhaps you've tried some with no joy.
Either way, the best of health to you and your garden!
Thanks ! yes I tried several harmless methods which also seem harmless to pests. I guess they are all used to it now. When I use some repellent on myself, the only one getting nauseated is me.
It's a noble but often frustrating endeavor in raising crops and livestock, and to do it more responsibly can be doubly difficult. Who knows how the constant "geo-engineering" of the skies might contribute to the plunder by voracious insects and wildlife?
Here's to you coming across some potions and methods, soon, that will prove productive for you and your land!
Where I live, most years you have to think of a peach tree as ornamental. But yes, after many "pesticide"-free years and many peach trees that bloomed a few times and died, we--my long dead father gets the credit, not me--finally have a peach tree that bears fruit even in normal years, resists borers, and gives me a chance to compete with the ants and the resident possums to enjoy a basket full of peaches. Small, but they have that real Elberta flavor.
I said *a* peach tree. I don't know whether monocropping acres of nothing but peach trees could ever work!
I'm sorry for you. Using any "pesticide" always produces a vicious cycle, comparable in some ways with addiction. Yes, the first year, in fact the first ten years, without the poisons are going to be bad years. Pesticides kill the natural predators, so when you stop using them the pest populations rebound. Pesticides also cause pest species to evolve resistance, so when you continue using them they lose effectiveness. Anything but the total commitment to farming without poisons is a lose-lose situation all the way. And it's planned that way, to keep farmers dependent on corporations.
There are no farms close by, but as the bird flies, not too far for their pests to come eat my little bit I am sure.But I am grateful for every tiny basket of greens in early spring, and for the occasional decorative leaf on a store bought salad. As to the peach tree, he is a volunteer, grown from a pit I threw out with some water from the kitchen. Nothing goes to a waste if I can avoid it! Peach flowers are gorgeous, specially with a blue sky.
I think Fukuoka had peach or apricot orchards, but he was in Japan.
There is a solution that dramatically increases nutrient density and yield of the crop while eliminating weeds and pests, which are merely the messengers and repair/cleanup crew of a poor quality crop grown in dead, mineral poor soil. Soilsaviors.org. Former conventional ag guys. Check them out.
Whether right or wrong, here you are heading down an unfashionable line to flirt with unfashionable conclusions. I like that. I fact, I love it.
The thing about pesticides (they'e not nice!) is that my body gets a chance to run them out through a whole lot of physical processing. With jabs, I don't get to do that. The muck goes straight into the bloodstream, no beg-your-pardons.
Also, pesticides (I already said they're not nice!) aren't designed specifically to alter what makes my physical processing run. Antibiotics will do just that because they're made to do that. Same with Lipitor and statins and the rest of the gunk pushed by my local GPs - who are rapidly achieving the status of under-the-counter vape shop attendants. (Thanks to COVID we have lots of vape shops and pop-up nail salons where actual useful commerce used to happen.)
Why are you comparing pesticides to the jabs? This article wasn’t about that.
Don't mind me, Cathleen. I like to take any opportunity to kick the jibby-jabs. It's a a hobby.
A little off topic;
1998 Judge Osteen vacated the EPA analysis of tobacco smoking harms. He declared it null and void. He said the EPA cherry picked their data that based their numbers on a meta analysis of 11 studies (most put out by Johnson & Johnson) the analysis showed no increase or decrease in risk at the 95% confidence level, so they changed the confidence level to 90%, which doubled their margin of error - to achieve their pre announced results. The EPA ignored nearly 2/3rds of the data. The EPA started out with 30 studies but only choose 11 of the available studies. The EPA adjusted established protocols & scientific norms and failed to disclose important findings & reasonings.
One of those studies reported that children of smokers had less lung cancer. Of course they didn't want to use that study.
2002 the EPA won in appeal and overruled Judge Osteen ruling.
Not surprising.
I'm in cattle country in Northern Rivers NSW Australia. The farmers DIET seems way different to city folk where I lived 15 yrs ago. They share home grown food and have a simple diet of red meat and plenty of vegetables and bread Not much refined processed packaged enhanced "food".They have low incomes and work almost 7 days a week.Very physical work.Although they don't seem to be living as long as their forefathers 100years back.The women in their late nineties.Yes nineties Men shorter of course around late 70's Only my observation and local contact in the past 8 years Also do use "roundup" like it's going out of style))domestic and land chemical sprays encouraged through govt. subsidies and educational use. No worms in the soil anymore
They and we are spraying the life out of the earth, and we justify the biocide with paid-for studies and market numbers. Why can't we see??
Short term life improvement Corporate profit/efficiency mass production for large uneducated populations particularly in the west maybe
Is the West uneducated or miseducated? My guess is a contrived combo of both.
Primo ! Yin's the bee's knees and the butterfly's wings !! I so respect what you do here Sasha !!! *** Thoughts from a layman for what it's worth: In Brazil, during the 20teens, press coverage was all about a Zika out break that was purportedly carried by mosquitoes. So, there was a spraying campaign. This would have been a neonicotinoid which a neurotoxin that is decimating pollinator populations Zika was touted as causing birth defects including extreme encephalitis, cranial elongation, and limb truncation. ** My thought at the time was: these are the same widespread birth defects, now into a 3rd generation that have already been documented as being widespread in the progeny of US Veteran and Vietnamese populations who were both exposed to Agent Orange during the Viet Nam War. ** Agent Orange is a chemical weapon grade glyphosate. "Of course it kills people, it's a weapon of war !" (See Loose Cannon, Dick Hughes website.) ** There are many moving parts here. Is cancer the shill in a game of 3 card Monty ??? Beautiful !!!! Let's eliminated cancer from this equation : ) Let's determine exposure factors individually, and in combination with other exposures in various cohorts and populations !!!!! *** I grew up in western Pennsylvania Amish country. Some communities are more modern than others. It depends on elder council in individual communities. I would be shocked to learn that any of the Amish communities are using glyphosate !!!!!! ** There is widespread off-label use in Big Ag of glyphosate as a drying agent to increase yield just before harvest. This undercuts the aforementioned degradation factor as it occurs when used for killing weeds during Spring cultivation. This accounts for the near universal infiltration of glyphosate into our food system. There are even traces in certified organic products : (
Excellent piece.
In fact i use glysophate to take out weeds on the gravel and don’t particularly protect myself from the back spraying etc. did wonder if it was harming myself but now i see i am protecting myself. Fantastic news!
Well done. There is a lot to ponder here
My children had surgery and received antibiotics immediately after birth. They are also vaccine injured. Glyphosate is patented as an antibiotic (among other things). I think a compromised gut microbiome can make a person more susceptible to vaccine injury.
I grow most of our own food, eat organic and include lots of fermented foods (kefir, sauerkraut, kombucha etc.) in our diet. We 'manage' vaccine injury through a healthy, natural diet realizing the injury will not be cured by food.
Bayer Crop Science has a new powerful broadleaf weed herbicide called Infinity Ultra.
Not making this up. It's a combo of two chemicals. For a plant, it's like being simultaneously hit by both a right uppercut and a left jab from Mike Tyson:).