If a country takes a step to try to regulate the financial industry or set up a public bank to represent the public interest, it can be sued . . . ."
Return to Nature: Not Too Late
There is a safer, saner, more earth-friendly way to feed nations. While Monsanto and US regulators are forcing GM crops on American families, Russian families are showing what can be done with permaculture methods on simple garden plots. In 2011, 40% of Russia's food was grown on dachas (cottage gardens or allotments). Dacha gardens produced over 80% of the country's fruit and berries, over 66% of the vegetables, almost 80% of the potatoes and nearly 50% of the nation's milk, much of it consumed raw. According to Vladimir Megre, author of the best-selling Ringing Cedars Series:
"Essentially, what Russian gardeners do is demonstrate that gardeners can
feed the world -- and you do not need any GMOs, industrial farms, or any other
technological gimmicks to guarantee everybody's got enough food to eat. Bear in
mind that Russia only has 110 days of growing season per year -- so in the US,
for example, gardeners' output could be substantially greater. Today, however,
the area taken up by lawns in the US is two times greater than that of Russia's
gardens -- and it produces nothing but a multi-billion-dollar lawn care
industry."
In the US, only about 0.6 percent of the total agricultural area is devoted to organic farming. This area needs to be vastly expanded if we are to avoid "the sixth mass extinction." But first, we need to urge our representatives to stop Fast Track, vote no on the TPP, and pursue a global phase-out of glyphosate-based herbicides and GMO foods. Our health, our finances and our environment are at stake.
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