Vegetarianism is a Higher level View

[MJA]

What about eating them ??

cool bananas ... greg

That would be terribly wrong Greg, and hopefully One day you'll see.

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MJA

[labelwench]

The organic incentive is pushing forward. LW

New national standards for organic food take effectSource: CBC News
Posted: 06/30/09 12:36PM
Filed Under: Top News
New rules compelling organic food producers to have their products comply with Canada-wide certification standards went into effect Tuesday.

The new regulations, mandated by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, cover any organic food product including fruit, vegetables, dairy products, meat and processed food.

Only products that have at least 95 per cent organic content are allowed to be advertised as organic, organically grown, organically raised, organically produced, or any other similar labels or abbreviations.

Producers can still label individual products as organic on the ingredient list if they comply with the CFIA standards. Producers can also opt to stamp their products with a "Canada Organic" logo that indicates to customers that the product has been certified by the CFIA.

All produce will have to be completely organic to be stamped with the logo, while products with multiple ingredients must have 95 per cent organic content. Products that do not qualify to use the logo but have over 70 per cent organic content must indicate the percentage of its organic ingredients.

Farmers who want their produce to carry the new "Canada Organic" label have to apply in writing for certification. The application must include:

The name of the agricultural product.

The substances used in its production.

The manner in which those substances are used.

Certification applies to U.S. imports

The logo will also be used on USDA-certified organic products imported from the United States.

Between 70 and 80 per cent of all organic products available in Canada are imported primarily from the U.S., according to government figures.

Under a June 17 agreement with the United States, the CFIA will considers the USDA certification equivalent to its own, and vice versa.

Accordingly, products that have been certified organic in the U.S. will bear both the CFIA stamp and the USDA logo.

Until now, organic producers in Canada only had to engage in voluntary compliance with national standards. Quebec and British Columbia were the only two provinces to have mandatory regulations in place covering organic produce.

There had also been no consistent standards governing what could be labeled organic two different brands of the same food product could potentially have had very different levels of organic ingredients.

[labelwench]

On another continent, what happens when organic and genetically modified product meets in the street? LW

Note: Emphasis and color added by LW

Impossible Coexistence: Transgenic And Organic Agriculture
ScienceDaily (July 2, 200 — The cultivation of genetically modified maize has caused a drastic reduction in organic cultivation of this grain and is making their coexistence practically impossible. This is the main conclusion reached in one of the first field studies in Europe carried out by a researcher of the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, who has analysed the situation in Catalonia and Aragon, Europe's main producers of transgenic foods.


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The study was carried out by researcher Rosa Binimelis of the UAB Institute of Environmental Science and Technology. Binimelis is working on the European project ALARM (Assessing Large Scale Risks for Biodiversity with Tested Methods) and analyses the application of the concept of coexistence between Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and conventional organic agriculture in the European Union. The results of the research have been published in the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics (April 200.

Since GM cultivation was introduced in Spain in 1998 it has been surrounded by controversy, and this has evolved into a debate over the concept of coexistence between transgenic and organic agriculture. This concept was introduced in 2002 by the European Commission with two objectives: to deal with the emerging concerns derived from the admixture of different cultivations, since organic farmers are committed to not using GMOs, and to make it easier to lift the existing "de facto" moratorium - which is not officially recognised - within Europe so as to introduce new transgenic cultivations.

Thus the concept of coexistence, after applying technical measures, should make it possible to operate freely in the market while reducing the political conflicts linked to GMOs. The European Commission is planning this year to evaluate how the policy of coexistence has been implemented in the past ten years.

Before GMOs were introduced previous studies in this area were carried out using modelling or experimental cases, due to the lack of commercial fields in most European countries. Researcher Rosa Binimelis however analyses the situation in Catalonia and Aragon, where the commercial cultivation of transgenic crops began in 1998. This research is therefore unique and especially relevant to the European Commission's assessment scheduled for this year. It involved qualitative techniques by means of 51 in-depth interviews and participant observation (twenty-two interviews with farmers while the remaining were held with key political figures, including government representatives, scientists, academics, as well as NGO members and other organisations and platforms).

The situation of both types of cultivations in 2007 was the following: the surface used to plant transgenic maize in Catalonia and Aragon was respectively 23,000 ha and 35,900 ha, which represent 55% and 42% of the total surface used to cultivate this crop. The variety of maize grown is the Bt corn, which is designed to ward off the European corn borer and is used mainly for feed production.

The maize production process is integrated in cereal cooperatives, which cover the entire production chain from the sale of seeds and inputs to commercialisation, including technical advice. This system makes it difficult and expensive to segregate GM from organic and conventional production. There are no specific silos for organic maize while only a minority of cooperatives in the region restricts the use of GMOs. In parallel, organic agriculture is growing in Spain in the number of producers and hectares. However, this trend is reverted for the case of maize.

The author's analysis reveals a social confrontation between proponents and opponents of GM technology regarding the consequences it can have and the measures to be taken in regulating and taking responsibility for any cases of admixture. Confrontation also exists when trying to define technical measures that would guarantee this coexistence. Finally, the study analyses the difficulties organic farmers would face in order to claim compensation if admixture took place, due to technical uncertainties in measuring the level of “contamination” or its origin, but also because of social reasons. Many farmers who could sue for damages prefer not to do so in order to avoid any local confrontations in small villages.

As a result, the area devoted to organic maize was reduced by 75% in Aragon from 2004 (year in which the first analyses were carried out) to 2007 and by 5% in Catalonia between 2002 and 2005. The percentage in Catalonia is lower because the only available data come from the first years of the analyses, when the cultivation of GM maize was not as widespread as it is today.

Given this context, the research concludes that both the concept of coexistence and different implementation proposals have generated new problems instead of solving existing conflicts. The results until now point to the promotion of genetically modified farming over any other alternative.
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Adapted from materials provided by Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.

[SB_UK]

Do we need to eat animals ?
No

Do we need to eat GM food ?
No

seems silly 2 (then)

Eating animals feels wrong; GM is simply the agrochemical industry attempting to translate molecular biology into a fast buck.

A mechanism for change

How about free (from charge) access to an allotment, greenhouse, seeds, water, fertilizer and advice on cultivation and storage over Winter
for all -
- for all to generate our own organic produce.

We'll instantaneously wipe out the agrochemical and pharmaceutical industries
with this small measure -

agrochemical and pharmaceutical

- to name just the first two of many many corporations which'll fall on the wrath of good people fighting back.

[SB_UK]

from
Toequest/Innate concept everything#post92284
Toequest/Innate concept everything#post92285

->-

post-apocalyptic genesis

wikiP/Noah

After the Flood, "Noah was the first tiller of the soil.

unravelling the metaphor.

[SB_UK]

from
Toequest/Innate concept everything#post92284
Toequest/Innate concept everything#post92285

->-

post-apocalyptic genesis

wikiP/Noah
unravelling the metaphor.

... ... ... back to the garden.

[melanie]

Think Positive.

Psychologists say - Think Positive.
Politicians say – Think Positive.
Economists say – Think Positive.
Scientists say – Think Positive.
Everyone says – Think Positive.

Arctic ice is melting – Glaciers are melting – Rivers are drying up.
Think Positive.

Fish population in Oceans is down to 1/3 of what it was 100 years ago.
Think Positive.

Pollution levels are going sky-high and valley-deep.
Think Positive.

There used to be millions of members in most species of Animals and Birds.
Now they are down to thousands and hundreds.
Think Positive.

Weather is getting more and more irregular and unpredictable.
Think Positive.

Metal everywhere - Concrete everywhere - Plastic everywhere.
Think Positive.

All local cultures have been destroyed in the name of consumerism and globalization.
Think Positive.

Thinking positive is the height of insanity.
Thinking positive is the height of abnormality.

This is a world that has become completely incapable of feeling Pain, Compassion, Remorse and Guilt.
The planet is getting destroyed moment by moment – and people are thinking positive.

Very soon there will be 1 Animal and 1 Tree left in this world – and people will still be thinking positive.

They will be holding Seminars, Conferences and Global-Summits to save the Environment.


There is an important point which the human-species needs to understand.
People think they can save the Environment by doing something.

We can never save the environment by doing something.
It is overactivity that has destroyed environment in the first place.

And it is not Mild Overactivity – It is Excessive Overactivity – Exponential Overactivity.

We cannot save the environment by doing something.
We can only save it by doing less of what we have been doing - much less of what we have been doing.
If we want to save environment we will have to reduce human activity [overactivity] by 99%.

Ecosystems are getting destroyed due to production of consumer goods.
Every consumer good is made by killing animals, trees, air, water and land - directly or indirectly.
[ more killing of nature takes place when consumer goods are used and discarded]

Industrial society is destroying necessary things - animals, trees, air, water and land for making unnecessary things - consumer goods.

The sane way of saving ecosystems is - you stop production of consumer goods - you reduce production of consumer goods to the minimum level.
But the insane Industrial Society continues producing consumer goods
[ in fact production is being increased every day]

The insane response of Industrial Society is - We will save the environment with technology - the best technology.
Bring this technology - Bring that technology.
Bring this technology - Bring that technology.
In the meantime production of consumer goods continues
3 billion people living in cities are continuously engaged in making , buying and selling of consumer goods
killing the ecosystems moment by moment.

One can imagine the fate of environment.
Height of Insanity--Height of Abnormality.
Destroy consumerism--before it is too late.
Destroy Industrial Society--before it is too late.

[SB_UK]

Destroy consumerism--before it is too late.

... ... and switch to the pure information age -
where close to no physical products are necessary.

The popular holographic screen and wireless data transfer protocols can eliminate our toxic addiction to ownership of stuff.

Information just wants to be free

The real world changes much more slowly than the virtual world of the tactile hologram -

- stuffz' become oh so dull.

And as of mind -
stimulation of our virtual milieu via our virtual inter-milieu
- became
soooooo
our
'thing'.

[MJA]

For God's sake, don't eat meat.

=
MJA

[melanie]

... ... ... back to the garden.

Materialism is the opposite of spiritualism.
The dominant society is a materialistic society.
The God in which the world trusts is MONEY and the acquisition of material things.

In the time of great purification those who follow a materialistic culture on this earth will be confronted with TRUTH.

Those who follow a materialistic culture will have no power over those who follow a spiritual way because truth and deception are incompatible.

They will not be able to stand together on this earth.
Our mother earth will be renewed again.