Wet Foggy and now some sleet this afternoon. Chooks were out on my GREEN lawn this weekend and today until it started raining and sleeting and they headed to the run. I've got the run pretty dry and deep in dry leaves and clipped grasses. But that relative humidity will kill my pine shavings' dryness. ugh... I much prefer frozen poo this time of year as well. No muss and little fuss.
I think we had this GMO debate here a few months back ...maybe last spring. So this is repetitive maybe fore some. What is concerning to me like Jailer Joe says is the economics around the seed rights and the removal of the small farmer. I might say also that crop after crop with very little rest and a limited nutrient fertilizer to replenish the soil makes for a very bland and limited product as far as nutritional value goes. Trace elements/ nutrients are not replenished and the vegetable or fruit can only take up what the soil has to offer. Ever compare the taste of a carrot from the grocery store to the carrot grown out of your garden? There is a difference there and I believe that over using soils with mass production crops and very little give back to the soil is not good over all. I visited my inlaws in south Texas a few years back and was watching them harvest the fields. Within hours it was tilled over and seeded again. No rest. If they do spread manure, is it from animals on antibiotics? Probably. Killing beneficial bacteria that make beneficial trace nutrients.
I don't claim to have all the answers, but I know a few little things.
My Dad (former farmer) heard once that the Saudis were buying some land in Iowa many years ago. He said this to me and it applies to the Saudis, Chinese, Americans, American Government or Monsanto. "If you control Food, You can rule the world." Food for thought anyways. Food is Big Business, like it or not.
