Scientist and animal/human health workers are worried, but the public is told ‘nothing to see, nothing to worry about, move on’.
The massive power of agribusiness is threatening the world we live in and also (for those who don't really care), our health by incubating new and dangerous illnesses.
@Wen I expect their intensive inhumane feedlot system of mass produced beef is almost certain to reduce animal health and the density of the 'herds' almost guarantees any infections will pass swiftly through the herd.
And their given hormone supplements to grow faster.
Why anyone thinks US beef is good, totally baffles me. The pollution it causes is enormous. Free ranging big herbivores are an environmental plus, but force fed dense collections are a disaster waiting to happen.
Bayer a byword for reckless, dangerous, environmentally destructive chemicals is going to all out to have glycophosphates declare ‘safe’. To the detriment of all but their shareholders.
@Wen
Did you know (you probably didn't want to) that farmers spray cereal crops with glycophosphates a couple of weeks before harvest to help the grain "dry". There is very likely significant residue after such a short time. Another reason, if you can afford it, to buy organic oats and wheat.
@thejapantimes how some cities stopped producing straws, later firewoks (also wrapped in plastic), but even cans or cardboard being a thing in shipped goods for grocery stores
minding icecream on a stick, cone waffles, than as 1kg to share ...DiY than getting singlets &chips be in amounts of less than 250g-butter if that salty snack being crushed or blendered, prev. sealed in plastic for pollution or to re-use in materials instead?
@ApaulD this is fixable. NASA has tech to monitor methane emissions with satellite imagery. We could use it get rid of states self-reporting emissions and entrust monitoring to the UN.
@Deus Love it.
Of course the smoking piles of pollution can be replaced and are being replaced by cleaner energy sources.
We're in the transition stage but the end point is clear if for no other reason than fossil fuels will become more and more uneconomical as they get more costly to source.
While renewal energy gets cheaper.
Knowing fossil fuels are an ever decreasing resource I'm delighted renewals are coming.
@pandanus Instead of rattling 'fuckwit' or yawn 'denial', at least bring some value to the conversation and share your viewpoint like someone below you has done.
"Blocked" - I couldn't care less being blocked by some idiot living in Australia. Some of you think you're a Barrack Obama or something. A lot of conceited people on here.
Il est facile de critiquer la lourdeur administrative des dispositifs européens, et les agriculteurs n’ont pas manqué de le faire, dans le cadre de leurs revendications, ces dernières semaines. Mais au final, c’est l’écologie qui sort perdante de cette demande de simplification. Le parlement européen vient d’adopter une révision de la PAC, qui en allège considérablement les contraintes environnementales. Pourtant, les Français sont beaucoup plus partagés qu’on ne le pense. #agriculture#environment https://www.lagrandeconversation.com/edito/la-pac-verte-etait-elle-impopulaire/