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ALERT OF THE WEEK :Agriculture & Climate Change: The Recipe for Survival Is to Ban Factory Farms and Go Organic

Energy and chemical-intensive industrial food and farming are responsible for 35-55% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. According to many analysts, GMO grains and the factory-farmed livestock sector are major contributors to our climate crisis. (This includes the emissions from animals and their waste, as well as agriculture and biofuels-related deforestation, industrial inputs used to produce feed, and the processing and transportation of food products made from animals.)

A shift to local and organic food and crop production would eliminate most fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions, including deadly methane and nitrous oxide emissions, while saving the world’s forests and turning our farm and ranch lands back into carbon sinks or storage areas, instead of emitters. Transitioning just the world’s 3.5 billion acres of cropland to organic would sequester 40% of annual emissions! Transitioning all range and pasture lands as well, along with global reforestation, would enable us to remove enough excess greenhouse gases to reverse global warming and stabilize the climate.

While Congress’s so-called “cap and trade” climate change legislation pays lip service to organic practices and certification, it fails to prioritize energy-efficient and carbon-sequestering organic practices over false solutions like Monsanto’s “GMO no-till” and industrial biofuels derived from GMO and monoculture corn, soybeans, sugar cane, and palm oil. And, in this pro-Wall Street, pro-corporate agribusiness bill, industrial agriculture and forestry sectors’ growing greenhouse gas emissions would be exempt from caps on pollution.

Tell Congress to wake up and acknowledge the links between our out-of-control crop and food production and climate change. Industrial agriculture is causing climate change. Organic farming and ranching could reverse climate change. But if we don’t stop relying on false solutions like industrial biofuels and GMO crops and make the switch to organics quickly, climate change will likely lead to massive crop failures, starvation, and endless war.

TAKE ACTION:

CAP & TRADE ALERT: Tell Congress to cap industrial agriculture emissions and credit certified organic farms

VIDEO ALERT (Ripe for Revolution: The Organic Solution) – Tell Congress: Organic Is the Answer to Climate Change

VIDEO ALERT (The Story of Cap & Trade) – Tell Congress: Scrap Cap & Trade! Let the EPA Do Its Job!

ALERT OF THE WEEK Agriculture & Climate Change: The Recipe for Survival Is to Ban Factory Farms and Go Organic

Energy and chemical-intensive industrial food and farming are responsible for 35-55% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. According to many analysts, GMO grains and the factory-farmed livestock sector are major contributors to our climate crisis. (This includes the emissions from animals and their waste, as well as agriculture and biofuels-related deforestation, industrial inputs used to produce feed, and the processing and transportation of food products made from animals.)

A shift to local and organic food and crop production would eliminate most fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions, including deadly methane and nitrous oxide emissions, while saving the world’s forests and turning our farm and ranch lands back into carbon sinks or storage areas, instead of emitters. Transitioning just the world’s 3.5 billion acres of cropland to organic would sequester 40% of annual emissions! Transitioning all range and pasture lands as well, along with global reforestation, would enable us to remove enough excess greenhouse gases to reverse global warming and stabilize the climate.

While Congress’s so-called “cap and trade” climate change legislation pays lip service to organic practices and certification, it fails to prioritize energy-efficient and carbon-sequestering organic practices over false solutions like Monsanto’s “GMO no-till” and industrial biofuels derived from GMO and monoculture corn, soybeans, sugar cane, and palm oil. And, in this pro-Wall Street, pro-corporate agribusiness bill, industrial agriculture and forestry sectors’ growing greenhouse gas emissions would be exempt from caps on pollution.

Tell Congress to wake up and acknowledge the links between our out-of-control crop and food production and climate change. Industrial agriculture is causing climate change. Organic farming and ranching could reverse climate change. But if we don’t stop relying on false solutions like industrial biofuels and GMO crops and make the switch to organics quickly, climate change will likely lead to massive crop failures, starvation, and endless war.

TAKE ACTION:

CAP & TRADE ALERT: Tell Congress to cap industrial agriculture emissions and credit certified organic farms

VIDEO ALERT (Ripe for Revolution: The Organic Solution) – Tell Congress: Organic Is the Answer to Climate Change

VIDEO ALERT (The Story of Cap & Trade) – Tell Congress: Scrap Cap & Trade! Let the EPA Do Its Job!

Is eating meat ‘MURDER’?

YEP.
Babies have to die and Mommas have to cry.
Pathological, unhealthy, and quite convenient for culling the population. Many people will die from it, and it is their own fault.
Many people know better because they people around them that have spent their whole lives studying to find the truth and sacrificed having families and money to do so have told them and they ignore the truth of information.
The Animals will have the ultimate victory as all of these ‘Failures in Evolution’ eat themselves to death.

Cannabis Farmers Grange is Formed.

Modeled after the American Grange and Order of the Patrons of Husbandry, this Association will be accepting applications at the beginning of the third quarter of 2010.

This group has a powerful and effective program for independent Cannabis Farmers that has no rival, to date.

Working closely in association with existing oversight agencies, the CFG intends to bring the same level of support to contemporary America that was delivered by the beloved American Grange and Order of the Patrons of Husbandry, which played a large role in solving the challenge and crisis of reformation of a war-torn Post Civil war American Nation in the 1800’s.

for more information contact the CFG at the Association’s website.

http://www.cannabisfarmersgrange.com

Haiti Being forced to accept Toxic GMO Seeds from MONSANTO

Monsanto is a POP-CON agent.

Monsanto needs to be dissolved immediately.

Haiti must refuse these seeds, and those who are funding Her reconstruction must refuse to accept the $4million dollar ‘Smallpox laced Blankets’ in the form of ‘HYBRID’ (what a lie) seeds from this dastardly and ANTI-LIFE company called MONSANTO.

THUNDERGROâ„¢ is the most amazing thing I have ever used in farming

It is true that there are other formulas with components that are similar to components in THUNDERgroâ„¢

like Humates, but never before has there been a formula like THUNDERgroâ„¢ available anywhere.

It utilizes physics to bring vitality and paramaganetic force back to the soil.

I have been farming since I was a small boy, and worked with many different mediums, and with all kinds of formulas and techniques, and it is utterly amazing to me how quickly I saw changes in my garden, and the effects seem to be building in intensity. For example: We are now in our fourth year of treating our gardens, and fruit trees, and through that period, our avocado tree which was scarcely producing at all when we began. The first thing we noticed was that the initial treatments with THUNDERgroâ„¢ increased the size of the fruit by 25% or more, and then a very odd thing occurred. The tree did not pause before it began to immediately go into the cycles of de-foliating, re-foliating and flowering and then fruiting! Usually the tree would pause, go through each of the cycles outlined above in succession through the seasons. The next thing we noticed is that the number of fruits in each ‘pod’ (clusters of fruit on the tree) increased from an average of 4 – 5  fruits to 9 – 11 !!

We wonder what will come next!

You can check out more about THUNDERgroâ„¢ by visiting them at thundergro.com

TREEHUGGER – Amazon deforestation dropped 51 percent from August 2009 to February 2010

when compared to the same period from 2008 to 2009, according to figures released this week by Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research . Much of the progress is due to Brazil’s newly established Green Arch, Legal Land Program.

INSTANT RUNOFF VOTING CONTINUES TO SPREAD

From a recent Fair Vote newsletter

Blll Maher wants IRV/alternative voting. So does Jesse Ventura.

Hendersonville (NC) city council indicates with unanimous vote that it wants to keep using instant runoff voting

Utah Republicans in Box Elder county used IRV in county nominations this weekend

UC-San Diego: Woman wins IRV race for president in last IRV round.

IRV plays key role in student votes at Columbia

Brandeis student paper. Elections “showcased the success of the new instant-runoff voting system

University of Minnesota has big jump in turnout in 4-way instant runoff race for student body president:

Instant runoff elections at NC State in 7-way vote for president

STEP UP and BE COUNTED!!