Comments on: Agribusiness to Michelle Obama: Use more chemicals in your food.

By: Stitcher

Stitcher — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:07:31 +0000

Maybe the right wingers have been taking in too many chemicals. Everyon should watch the DVD “The Future of Food”, very informative. Should be able to get it from the library or through a health food store. It is a must see.

By: losangelian

losangelian — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:56:59 +0000

Monsanto is Evil

By: SickupandFed

SickupandFed — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 01:23:40 +0000

I have a garden every year. Like my father b4 me and his b4 him. I use no chemicals. but I do understand why large farms must.

Encourage all you know to grow something!

By: SnoBird

SnoBird — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:31:04 +0000

The Bush Administration threatened to withhold seed and grains to African countries suffering from famine unless they accepted genetically modified seeds from American companies. Granted, I’m not all up to speed on this, but the countries concerns were that the genetically modified grains would pollinate their indigenous strains and prevent the indigenous strains from accommodating to future changes in weather and other conditions and thereby leave local populations in the future. Don’t know how this problem resolved itself, but it’s another flaming example of putting his financially needy corporate friends before the needs of world hunger and an immediate and long term solution to it. Science be screwed, if starving Africans really want American grain, they’ll take it now, out of expediency, they’ll corrupt African crops and next year, it will be a non-issue. Sick.

By: SnoBird

SnoBird — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:21:58 +0000

When did genetically modified, chemical fortified gardening and agriculture become the “norm”. No nature is the norm. Plants genetically evolve to accommodate their environments and are genetically mutated to suit agribusiness. Mutations are not the norm and chemically saturated plant live is not the norm. These practices create genetic abnormalities, mutations in consumers and, frankly, less tasty produce.

Word speak doesn’t change the facts. Mutations and chemicals, feeding livestock livestock parts and all of the rest is disgusting and certainly not Mother Nature’s “norm.

By: ecosutra

ecosutra — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:53:30 +0000

We all need to go one step further and practice the design sciences of permaculture. Coppice Swale the WH lawn for bio char and create sustainable soils. Malaysian fresh water prawns in an Aquaponics system run on a solar pump. Compost. Permaculture is all integrated in a pattern. Start designing your food forest now. Want to know more? http://www.ecosutra.com

By: dbadass

dbadass — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:48:04 +0000

I used to have a 50 by 100 plot and I just hand picked my potato bugs

By: SKdeAnt

SKdeAnt — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:44:58 +0000

makete Says:
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How do you keep the potato bugs from eating up your plants? That is the question that has plagued me for years, and I cant find any answers. Help?

Here’s a handy page – when I googled Potato Bug, though, one of the pages was a Wikipedia that says there are three different bugs called the potato bug. Is it this one? One of the others is the Jerusalem cricket and there’s another one I can’t remember…
http://www.essortment.com/all/potatobuggarde_rjdx.htm

By: dbadass

dbadass — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:43:50 +0000

For those of you that grow more than you need please consider the barter economy. Freeganing food is lots of fun and beneficial to all parties. So anyone looking for an excess of kale?

By: Trittydi

Trittydi — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:43:25 +0000

Vomit.

They can’t stand to leave anything pure and good alone, can they? Gotta find a way to destroy it with industry and Corporate America.

Rapacious, egregious GREED.
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By: Winski

Winski — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:45:11 +0000

Ms. Obama is polite enough to tell these bozos to shove it and be just fine….

Gotta have a lobbyist in every closet…Maybe if they go out there and lend her a hand WITHOUT their poison they might learn something!! Na…that’s to easy..

Have Issa introduce another piece of legislation barring her from growing a garden on the premises….yea, that’s the ticket…Hacks everywhere…

By: greatdogs

greatdogs — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:37:34 +0000

re Gregor Samsa

That is the new terminology. If you are a traditional producer, people wonder what is wrong with you and the Chairman of the House Ag Committee refers to you as a hippie farmer.

By: chiroptera toasterhead

chiroptera toasterhead — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:33:47 +0000

Gregor Samsa Says:

So the use of chemicals is conventional agriculture?

I thought it was the other way around -after all, during most of human history, humans have grown their food without the use of modern-day chemicals. Silly me.

April 10th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
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Yeah, isn’t that an interesting bit of double-speak? Organics are considered “exotic” and “unconventional,” but dumping a ton of pesticide on a corn crop specifically bio-engineered to not be killed by that pesticide is “conventional.”

By: Gregor Samsa

Gregor Samsa — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:58:25 +0000

[...]we respectfully encourage you to recognize the role conventional agriculture plays in the U.S

Maybe it’s me, but I detect a bit of an Orwellian spin here.

So the use of chemicals is conventional agriculture?

I thought it was the other way around -after all, during most of human history, humans have grown their food without the use of modern-day chemicals. Silly me.

By: Max Anax junius -1

Max Anax junius -1 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:53:24 +0000

The Chem/agro business recognises the threat and impact that organic gardening can have upon it’s national food distribution and supply.

By: A Patriotic Anopheles Acting

A Patriotic Anopheles Acting — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:57:50 +0000

My family has enjoyed growing our own organic veg and herbs since we bought our house 10 years ago. There is NOTHING that beats snipping fresh herbs as needed while grilling, harvesting just enough mixed greens for your salad and the freshness, aroma and taste of vegetables that have been vine-ripened. The pleasure and sheer enjoyment of organic gardening is something that I am proud to pass on to my children (my 10 year old has her own plot in the yard to grow her strawberries and snap peas). Her unending curiousity of nature has gotten her more involved each year with the maintenance and selection of flora for our fish/frog pond and flower garden. She has even convinced me to add another water feature in our yard this year. The fish and frogs eat a surprising number of mosquitos and larvae and the running water brings in such a variety of birds and other critters looking for a drink. I’d probably go nuts between the economy, being forced to concede to a thirty hour work week to avoid layoffs, the added stress of working in NYC (and the fear of NOT working) if it weren’t for my little home oasis.

Aside from adding a big F@CK YOU TO THE CHEMICAL AGRO CROWD, that’s my two cents.

By: watchout5

watchout5 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:54:18 +0000

It’s a bad thing that they aren’t using strange chemicals? What are these people smoking and where can I get some?

By: DNFP

DNFP — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:46:51 +0000

Not until we’re eating unprocessed crude oil will they be happy.

Soylent Green is NOT people.

By: tokin librul

tokin librul — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:42:02 +0000

The critics of Michelle Obama’s garden deal in frankenfoods and poison.

She cannot take a public, rhetorical stance against these two major supporters of her huasband’s farm policy.

But she can grow her garden.

If she recants, of she uses Round-Up resistant seed, for example, you’ll know the fix is well and truly in.

It is worth remembering here, too, that the last First Lady specified that all veggies served in the ShiteHouse under her fatuous, criminal spuse sshould be “organic”…

By: makete

makete — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:37:11 +0000

How do you keep the potato bugs from eating up your plants? That is the question that has plagued me for years, and I cant find any answers. Help? My home garden is as chemical free as I can make it. Hate the thought of all those chemicals in my food. This year the garden is going to be bigger and better without all those bad man made shlt in the soil and plants.