Beeline to Extinction

[Ladyhawke1]

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/05/26-6

I implore you to think again about using BT. Taking the quote I am a experttrust me .is just not good enough anymore. Look at who is telling you this product is safe and who sponsors them in their endeavors. BT is not specific.

 

[ducks4you]

KEEP UP THE POSTS AGAINST CHEMICAL PESTICIDES, Ladyhawke1!!!
Although many people do not suffer from exposure to insecticides and herbicides, I cannot touch them, because I get an allergic reaction where I wheeze, my eyes swell up--I can see it happening in a mirror!!!, and after using Benedryll it takes 3 days for me to recover. I am USELESS for the rest of the first day.
The bees are SO LITTLE--it is amazing that they haven't died from exposure sooner than this.
And, HERE'S some food for thought: I also have sensitive skin and I get a rash from poison ivy and some weeds. Although the rash can spread, it does NOT affect my breathing or health in any other way than inconvenient itching. I treat it with calomine (sp?) lotion, you know the OLD pink cure?, and dry it up. It looks way worse than it is and I can still function normally and get my jobs done.
Here's MORE food for thought: I spend A LOT of time outside--just like YOU ALL DO. There isn't a day when I do NOT encounter dirt or have to clean up after my animals. I get about one-two colds per year, and I haven't had a flu for about 5 years.

I planted Jalepenos this year, not because I like hot peppers (sorry, pepper fans!!), but because I'm going to make spray for my other vegetables with them.
I planted 6 beds and I weed them everyday. I am finding baby vegetables that are being shielded from the sun by them. My lettuce bed is now weed-free, just lettuce and swiss chard exploding in it (and being cut everyday for great salads!)
(NEXT year I'm going to put down plastic to kill the seeds before I plant, but I ran out of time in 2010.)

Every section of this Forum we talk about successful non-manufactured chemical solutions to weeds and insects. I think we are ALL interested in this.

Thanks, AGAIN!! You've helping to keep ME healthy.

P.S. I also keep ("feeder-type")goldfish in my horse's 100 gallon water tank, which is the only standing water I allow during the Spring, Summer and Fall. Without them I can see mosquito larvae squirming around at the top of the tank. WITH Them, I only see algae growing, which they feed on and algae never hurt a horse.
(BTW, they are cheap, they don't spike my horses like catfish will, and I can usually find a friend with a pond to give them to in November.)

 

[Ladyhawke1]

In the olden daysmy ex used to spray the yard with Malathion. The smell would drive me nuts and make me sick.

Don't people get it! If your body is telling you by making you sick of the smell......hey that is nature's way of telling you to get the he__l out of there.

Many times, I had begged him to stop spraying. He did not listen and he still sprayed.

In the mid-nineties, here in California, our homes were sprayed by helicopter for what seemed like weeks on end. Some people whose children had asthma would take their kids out of town on those nights. I have never been in a war zone but I do know how it sounds and feels by having helicopters buzzing your house at fifty feet. Walls, doors, windows, ceiling fixtures and your teeth are all rattling at once.

I have now had cancer twice. It is NOT my genes or my life style that has caused this. It is an environment pushed into ruin by industries that only care about making a buck.

Instead of plugging the well..and saving the environment and its people, Lets save the well.

 

[wifezilla]

Few organic beekeepers have reported bee losses, suggesting that natural and organic bee keeping methods may be the solution. In addition, organic farmers who maintain wildlife habitat around their farms are helping to encourage bees to pollinate their crops. "The main difference between our farm and our conventional neighbors is the amount of wildlife and insect habitat that we have around the edge of our farm," said Greg Massa, who manages Massa Organics, a fourth generation 90-acre certified organic rice farm near Chico.

Score another point for polyculture. Diversity, diversity, diversity!!!

 

[nittygrittydirtdigger]

I've had cancer twice, too, Lady. There's no knowing where it came from but I'm guessing that the big trucks that drove through my neighborhood spraying for mosquitos several times each summer when I was a kid, didn't help my health any. I shudder to remember that droves of us kids used to run behind the trucks and play in the clouds of spray. UGH!

Since we moved to our tiny farm three years ago, we have not used any non-organic products on our veggies or flowers, nor do we use 'household chemicals'. (What a disturbing term!) I don't think it's just coincidence that I don't have sore throats anymore or that our pets don't scratch all the time. I used to have big brown blotches on both forearms; those are gone now.

It's overwhelming sometimes to go to the grocers and see all the poisons in other people's shopping carts. I can't fix that, but I can be that one candle that lightens the darkness.

 

[wifezilla]

"Through their direct effects on insulin and blood sugar, refined carbohydrates, starches and sugars are the dietary cause of coronary heart disease and diabetes. They are the most likely dietary causes of cancer, Alzheimer's disease and other chronic diseases of civilization" - Gary Taubes

 

[Ladyhawke1]

Oh, it gets better than that! If you have not been made aware of it, since the late nineties a darn rumor just keeps circulating in the scientific journals to the dismay of the meat industry. You knowthe one about Alzheimers and BSE possibly being the same disease.

Now think about it. Each year, more and more people are reported as having Alzheimer's disease. Oh, please do not give me that old chestnut that ohcommunications and the reporting are better nowadays. Hooey! This is NOT a vegetarian plot to get you to stop eating beef/meat.

Home grown is safest and all we can do is educate and point fingers at big AG. Someday we will get smart and yank business licenses and corporate logos from those that are intent on putting profits before the safety of the people.

How come the little home burglar/criminal gets put in jail and does his time. Then there are the mega corporations who after killing people with their carelessness that they can walk away home free after throwing down a stack of money as their defense?

Lets see if BP walks away after killing 11 workers. I hear they are importing workers from Mexico just as they did in Katrina to do the toxic cleanup. Oh.gosh, no responsibly there. Use em, abuse em and if they survive, send them back where they came from. No questions asked.

What does that say about a country that lets this happen to anyone who has to work for a living?

I heard on the radio, from a trusted sourcethat the locals that are helping with the cleanup are not allowed to go home in the same clothes. BP takes their clothes from them. Hello! What does that mean? I don't think it means that they want them to be tidy. I think it means they are dealing with a very toxic substance and they do not want any proof out there of liability.

Sorry! My "train" sort of got off the tracks.

 

[wifezilla]

Alzheimers is actually a form of diabetes...

"ould Alzheimer's be a form of diabetes? That's the tantalizing suggestion from a new study that finds insulin production in the brain declines as Alzheimer's disease advances.
"Insulin disappears early and dramatically in Alzheimer's disease," senior researcher Suzanne M. de la Monte, a neuropathologist at Rhode Island Hospital and a professor of pathology at Brown University Medical School, said in a prepared statement.

"And many of the unexplained features of Alzheimer's, such as cell death and tangles in the brain, appear to be linked to abnormalities in insulin signaling. This demonstrates that the disease is most likely a neuroendocrine disorder, or another type of diabetes," she added.

The discovery that the brain produces insulin at all is a recent one, and de la Monte's group also found that brain insulin produced by patients with Alzheimer's disease tends to fall below normal levels.

Now her group has discovered that brain levels of insulin and its related cellular receptors fall precipitously during the early stages of Alzheimer's. Insulin levels continue to drop progressively as the disease becomes more severe -- adding to evidence that Alzheimer's might be a new form of diabetes, she said.

In addition, the Brown University team found that low levels of acetylcholine -- a hallmark of Alzheimer's -- are directly linked to this loss of insulin and insulin-like growth factor function in the brain.

The report appears in the November issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease."
http://health.dailynewscentral.com/content/view/0001969/53/

"Now scientists at Northwestern University have discovered why brain insulin signaling -- crucial for memory formation -- would stop working in Alzheimers disease. They have shown that a toxic protein found in the brains of individuals with Alzheimers removes insulin receptors from nerve cells, rendering those neurons insulin resistant. (The protein, known to attack memory-forming synapses, is called an ADDL for amyloid -derived diffusible ligand.)
With other research showing that levels of brain insulin and its related receptors are lower in individuals with Alzheimers disease, the Northwestern study sheds light on the emerging idea of Alzheimers being a type 3 diabetes."
http://www.physorg.com/news110029762.html

"The two hallmarks of Alzheimers Disease (AD) are amyloid plaque deposition and hyperphosphorylated tau-mediated tangle formation. While inhibitors of these processes are now being studied in the clinic, currently available therapies such as cholinesterase inhibitors and the NMDA antagonist memantine only treat symptoms of AD. A less-studied aspect of AD etiology involves insulin dysregulation in the brain.

Recent studies of postmortem brains from AD patients suggest that sporadic AD may result from a cascade involving dysregulated neuronal insulin signaling systems. This cascade is associated with generation of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species, mitochondrial dysfunction and cholinergic neuronal degeneration, in addition to plaque and tangle formation."
http://www.nyas.org/events/Detail.aspx?cid=53b416ce-0991-4826-893f-645016004019

Not than many corporations and governments aren't scumbags...it's just the scumbag in this case is the USDA, Monsanto, Cargill, etc....

 

[Ladyhawke1]

Very interesting findings.

I do not disagree with you. However, the USDA is us, you and me. The people in the USDA are civil servants and they are supposed to serve we the people.

We just need to keep Monsanto and the likes of Cargill from using that swing-door routine. The people in the USDA come from the industry, and they go into OUR government offices where they shill for the industry and do not work for the people they are suppose to be serving.

There are many good laws already on the books and the USDA is supposed to be enforcing those laws to protect you and me and they are not. WE are the bosses and WE need to say ...NO MORE!

 

[wifezilla]

Oh HECK yeah