Protecting the Rights of Mother Earth

A Monsanto ad really set me off with their "sustainable agriculture" full pager in the New York Times last week.

How about answering the Earth's plea to quit procreating not with genetically altered means of mass production, but with viable birth and population control methods? Why focus funds on creating sufficient food to allow the population to grow to further excess? Why not, instead, educate the third world about how and why to utilize birth control, offer them every means of avoiding unwanted pregnancy and delivery, and heeding the calls of Mother Earth to slow down?!

We ought to focus not on continuing the outrageous gluttony of ceaseless growth, but to sustaining and stabilizing our planet by going back to basics, back to nature, back to what is dictated by the very Earth that is the essence of life.

Increasingly, we see widespread health problems from altering the food chain to reflect processing and damaging food sources to be more abundant and available. The trouble is that these foods are often toxic in the long term, over several life cycles.

While conducting research for a Russian documentary about five years ago, I was able to procure data from studies conducted on the genetically altered corn you find right in your local grocery store and produced by Monsanto. Funny that, in just three life cycles, all insects coming into contact with and/or working to pollinate said plants became sterile. That's right - unable to breed.

Well, there goes an even funnier twist... I'm on about birth control, and they may actually be doing just that with all this sustainable agriculture. What at first outraged me has suddenly become wrought with irony. Perhaps, if we keep eating the way we are, at least some of us will quit multiplying like rabbits. I'll explore this further and get back with you.

Hmmph.

Comments

[seakat]

It would be ironic indeed if mutilated seed producing crops interferred with human reproduction.

I wonder if we're already seeing some of it, with people relying on fertility clinics, then I wonder if we won't see more freakish things like Octomom. I shouldn't think so much, it could get depressing!

[elmerfude]

It just shows the colossal ignorance when it comes to the basic principles of ecology. There is little understanding of limiting factors and carrying capacity. Just before the stock market crashed my financial planner showed me a graph of growth in stock values since the Great Depression. I commented that the graph looked to me like a population chart of a species just before it collapses. I switched my money to fixed assets.