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“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”

Boulder County allowing farmers to grow GMOs on open space after organic utopia didn’t materialize

Schlagel knows full well that farming public land in Boulder County is performative, visually and politically. As he wheels the John Deere around the cornfield he harvested in November, third-floor patients from UC Health’s Longs Peak Hospital on the east side of Longmont can watch him make the dust fly. He’s been willing to work within that constant judgment of Boulder County consumers.

But he’s not willing to lose his family farm raising crops that people won’t pay for.

“It’s hard for people living in the city of Boulder, and even on the western side of Boulder County, to understand what real agriculture even looks like,” Schlagel said. The crop bans were “a mandate from somebody that we’re going to transition to something better that is very naive. Because if there was something better, we would already be there.”

Now, after years of debate and voluminous series of reports and public comment, Schlagel and other Boulder County lease farmers can plant what they want. The farmers convinced Boulder County leaders that they couldn’t survive while adhering to prohibition of genetically engineered corn and pesticide coatings using controversial neonicotinoids.

Some Boulder County residents are still angry. They feel a new slate of Boulder County Commissioners sold them out after years of detailed public debate and a consensus to slowly restrict engineered farming methods. Based on staff recommendations and their own research, the commissioners voted 3 to 0 in December to reverse the scheduled bans and restore choice to the leasing farmers.

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Organic Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”

The Take Away:

There is no independently-produced evidence in the scientific literature that organic foods offer consistent nutritional or safety advantages over conventional foods. Some claimed advantages, like higher levels of antioxidants or omega-3 fatty acids or phenols, may not be advantages at all, say scientists. Other differences may be the result of whether a cow was grass fed or grain fed and have nothing to do with whether it was raised organically. Claims that organic crops are more “nutrient dense” have not been consistently supported in independent studies.

“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”

Via Genetic Literacy Project;

The bright yellow rapeseed flowers that adorn the British countryside have largely disappeared after crops this season failed.
 
The flaxen dandelion – used to make rapeseed oil – is a common sight on farmland in late spring but has suffered a downturn partly due to flea beetle larvae infestations, Farmers Weekly reported.
 
Farmers have struggled to control the pest after the EU banned neonicotinoid seed treatments in rapeseed crops six years ago.
 
A number of hectares of the crop completely failed, and any others that made it through the tough winter months then had to contend with the flea beetle – leading to a very small rapeseed crop

“Organic” is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”

Following neonicotinoid insecticide ban, UK canola growers ask government to cover crop losses

Since the ban on neonics, the UK area of oilseed rape has progressively fallen year on year.
 
What’s more, following an epidemic of cabbage stem flea beetle last year, many growers are choosing to move away from the crop [in 2020]— leaving some saying that the future of the crop is now at crisis point.
 
This was reflected in the recent AHDB Early Bird survey which revealed that the UK forecast area is down 32% on 2019, and could pose a real threat to production, explains Chloe Lockhart, combinable crops advisor at the NFU.

“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Scumbag Lawyers”

ACSH;

In a press release, the DOJ said that one of the lead plaintiffs’ attorneys, Timothy Litzenburg, who helped land a $289-million hit job against Monsanto has been arrested for the attempted extortion of $200 million from another chemical company involved in the production of Roundup.
 
If the company (which the Wall Street Journal identified as Nouryon) did not cough up the money, Litzenburg would send in a “parade of horribles” (i.e., cancer patients) like he did to Monsanto, according to an affidavit. He also promised a “40 percent stock loss” and a “public relations nightmare.” But if Nouryon complied with his demand, then he would intentionally lose the case, just like the Black Sox in the 1919 World Series.
 
And, as it just so happens, Litzenburg has a buddy in Carey Gillam, a former journalist who left Reuters under troublesome circumstances (see image) and subsequently took a job with the anti-GMO activist organization U.S. Right to Know (USRTK). USRTK, a corporate front group that is primarily funded by the organic industry, routinely smears and spreads disinformation about biotech scientists.

Pollspotting

Kevin Folta is a crop scientist fighting the good fight to protect and advance the ag science that actually feeds the world.

The problem is that we live in a time where malicious interests from inside and outside of the scientific community have targeted scientists, myself included. Universities run from controversy. They are forced into the sad decision of standing up for truth, versus backing down for pragmatic satisfaction of donors, politicians, and activists. Expedience demands that perception trump the mission, even at the cost of those we are charged to serve.
 
These realities have forced the university to retract me from public view. While silent, I am not out, and am planning the next move, the next chapter. The enemy is not the university or its leadership. The enemy is hunger and the threats to our farmers and environment, and the individuals that take an expert stand in fighting against science and scientists.

If you’d like to do him a small favour, go vote for his proposal. It’s currently at 177 votes.

The voting closes tomorrow.

Update: After checking the vote tallies on the other proposals, he appears to have a significant lead already. Maybe we shouldn’t slam it too hard or the count may look suspicious.

Ilhan Omar, call your office.

The antisemitic Congresswoman from Minnesota has a problem.

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