The Newest Big-Ag Answer To All Our Woes! More Systemic Toxins And More Dependence On Them!

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Commercial agriculture already reached the point of lunacy back in the 50's.  Its been clear over the subsequent decades that it is both extremely destructive and unsustainable.  Not only that, life has found a way to fight back as it ALLWAYS does.  Their product is becoming less and less viable as pest species adapt to their model. 

What is their answer to this issue?  More of the same!  More GMO with more systemic toxins.  More poison going into our food and our bodies.  Isn't it interesting that their solution involves more dependence on them

I am sorry but this is absolutely infuriating.  Thankfully, it seems that the backlash is much bigger this time.  People are beginning to wise up.  But honestly I doubt anyone is going to do anything about it.  Its time we began to remove ourselves from this model voluntarily.  If there is no market for these products, nobody will produce them. 

It is also interesting that one of the solutions to resistance has been to provide a trap crop for non-resistant insects.  This is a Permaculture principle that has been around for a long time.  Chicken soup anyone?

I have often maintained that healthy populations of pest species are essential.  All this business about 'beneficial' insects is fine and dandy.  But healthy ecosystems and insect populations require ALL links in the food web.  Plagues come from unbalanced and unhealthy ecosystems.  STABLE pest populations develop STABLE predator and disease responses.  The more diverse the ecosystem, the more resilient any single crop will be.

The problem is that nature is now adapting to our overall strategy.  Nature does not compartmentalize issues and develop canned responses like scientists in laboratories do.  Nature develops whole-system responses to all issues.  If we continue to fight this, we will expend ever increasing amounts of time and energy maintaining a crumbling agricultural infrastructure that is quickly becoming obsolete.  Ultimately, however long we choose to drag this out, there can be only one outcome. 

We can no longer consider ourselves separate from nature.  Choosing to work within the framework we have been provided is the only solution.

http://phys.org/news/2013-03-multi-toxin-biotech-crops-silver-bullets.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-larger-refuges-sustain-success-transgenic.html#nRlv