(NaturalNews) Scotts Miracle-Gro, a popular household name in gardening and lawn care products, is the subject of a new class-action lawsuit that is seeking damages for the company's willful distribution and sale of bird seed products contaminated with toxic, unapproved insecticides. Courthouse News Service (CNS) reports that plaintiffs from Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota, Arkansas, Kentucky, and New Mexico have jointly filed the new suit, which follows an earlier suit in which Scotts Miracle-Gro pleaded guilty to knowingly selling poisoned bird seed to customers for over two years.
Scotts Miracle-Gro apparently started using the two chemicals as bird seed coating to prevent insects from ravaging the product in storehouses prior to shipment and use. But neither Storcide II nor Actellic 5E are approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for use in bird feed, and the EPA specifically recognizes Storcide II as being extremely toxic to birds, fish, and other wildlife, which means it clearly has no place being used in food given to birds.
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Showing posts with label nature. Show all posts
Friday, June 22, 2012
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Friday, June 24, 2011
Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal (a pissed-off farmer)
Everything I want to do is illegal. As if a highly bureaucratic regulatory system was not already in place, 9/11 fueled renewed acceleration to eliminate freedom from the countryside. Every time a letter arrives in the mail from a federal or state agriculture department my heart jumps like I just got sent to the principal’s office.
And it doesn’t stop with agriculture bureaucrats. It includes all sorts of government agencies, from zoning, to taxing, to food inspectors. These agencies are the ultimate extension of a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process.
And it doesn’t stop with agriculture bureaucrats. It includes all sorts of government agencies, from zoning, to taxing, to food inspectors. These agencies are the ultimate extension of a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Japan earthquake/tsunami pics
Japan was today plunged into chaos after a cataclysmic earthquake sent merciless tsunami waves rushing through its helpless streets.
The unforgiving tide of water unleashed after one of the biggest quakes in recent history obliterated tens of thousands of buildings, devouring almost anything in its path.
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The unforgiving tide of water unleashed after one of the biggest quakes in recent history obliterated tens of thousands of buildings, devouring almost anything in its path.
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Friday, January 28, 2011
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward
The third installment of the Zeitgeist series; A study of human nature, and an indictment of money itself and promotion of a new, global, sustainable "resource-based economy".
Monday, January 24, 2011
Monday, November 9, 2009
Why boys are turning into girls
Here's something rather rotten from the State of Denmark. Its government yesterday unveiled official research showing that two-year-old children are at risk from a bewildering array of gender-bending chemicals in such everyday items as waterproof clothes, rubber boots, bed linen, food, nappies, sunscreen lotion and moisturising cream.
The 326-page report, published by the environment protection agency, is the latest piece in an increasingly alarming jigsaw. A picture is emerging of ubiquitous chemical contamination driving down sperm counts and feminising male children all over the developed world. And anti-pollution measures and regulations are falling far short of getting to grips with it.
Sperm counts are falling so fast that young men are less fertile than their fathers and produce only a third as much, proportionately, as hamsters. And gender-bending chemicals are increasingly being blamed for the mystery of the "lost boys": babies who should normally be male who have been born as girls instead.
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The 326-page report, published by the environment protection agency, is the latest piece in an increasingly alarming jigsaw. A picture is emerging of ubiquitous chemical contamination driving down sperm counts and feminising male children all over the developed world. And anti-pollution measures and regulations are falling far short of getting to grips with it.
Sperm counts are falling so fast that young men are less fertile than their fathers and produce only a third as much, proportionately, as hamsters. And gender-bending chemicals are increasingly being blamed for the mystery of the "lost boys": babies who should normally be male who have been born as girls instead.
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Panic, little ones, it's the Carbon Monster
IF you don't reduce your carbon footprint, then puppies will drown and bunny rabbits will die. And a terrifying, jagged-toothed monster with crazy hooked hands will descend from the clouds to eat you up.
Monday, August 3, 2009
The Plant of Immortality
Research indicates that aloe vera’s earliest use originated from the Egyptians. This plant, comprised of 99 percent water and 1 percent glycoproteins and polysaccharides, which are anti-inflammatory and healing agents, truly has an interesting history.
Egyptians had the savvy to use this wondrous plant as they were, on every level, ahead of their time. Many of the hieroglyphics on the temple walls as well as the pyramid walls boasted and attested to their love for this commodity even to the point of it being put on the same level as God. They called it “The Plant of Immortality.”
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Friday, July 24, 2009
Endangered Species
by judge sixkiller
What makes a species become endangered? Is it mostly due to one factor, or is it a combination of more than one? Are endangered or extinct species themselves at fault for their own predicament or demise? Surely not, at least when it comes to species other than humans.
It's been said that 95% of all species of living things in the history of life on Earth are extinct. It has also been said that the Earth is losing between 20 and 150 species every single day. Comforting, no? Well, maybe not all that uncomfortable for most of us, considering that, after all, it's not humans dropping like flies all over the planet. At least not yet.
What brings a species to the precipice of doom can vary from group to group and with different environments or habitats. Lack of food and water, dramatic temperature change, invasive species, disease, and destruction of habitat get the blame most of the time. On rare occasions, freak catastrophic events (like meteor strikes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc.) cause massive damage to large areas and the various living things that inhabit them. Some chalk it up to "natural selection", which is really just an all-inclusive title for a combination of events unforeseen by - and out of the control of - the affected species. Here, however, we come to the underlying difference between human beings and all other species of life that has ever lived: conscious awareness, unforeseen events, and the extent of influence and control of "endangering" factors.
The rainforests are the source of the widest array of species of plants, animals, and insects on the planet. Every day, the most highly developed of the three - the animals - forage or hunt for food, search for water, fight over and control territories, find mates, and raise their young, continuing the cycle and the lessons learned from their parents that has been passed from one generation to the next over the course of hundreds, even thousands years.
None of these animals, however, are consciously aware of the danger they are in from deforestation and human encroachment. On some basic level, they are aware that humans pose a threat, and so they avoid humans and teach their young to do the same. But they are not capable of understanding why, nor do they have the power to prevent humans from destroying the well-being of their kind or environments. They merely go on as they always have, focusing on the immediate, never able to contemplate what it all means, or if it will continue as it has for as long as they have been around.
Ah, but humans...
Humans are remarkable in the fact that despite being far advanced of plants, insects, and animals, great numbers of them choose, either consciously or subconsciously, to behave as the lower forms do. Humans focus on the immediate, on the convenience of what serves their wishes, hungers, and pleasures at a given moment. Humans do as they were taught, because that's how things are done, and because that's the way it has to be. Humans go to the store, to work, to school, to church, to games, bars, court, the gas station, the bank, the movie store, because, well, that's what they were taught, it's what they see other humans doing, so that's what they are supposed to do. What humans don't do for pleasure, they do for "necessity", regardless of whether or not they would find the same things "necessary" or even "pleasurable" if left to their own devices, out of the influence of money and modern society. They merely go on foraging (for food, shiny things, and little pieces of paper), making nests, and playing, hardly ever noticing that the environment in which they live and on which they depend is being transformed, even destroyed, by dangers that are not in the form of typical physical threats, like storms or hungry predators. Humans distance themselves from the thought that doing what everyone else does and doing what they have been taught does not guarantee the same way of life, or even the survival of their species.
Oddly enough, humans themselves are the cause of their own endangerment. War, pollution, nuclear and bio-weapons, theft, rape, and murder on an immensely grand scale threaten everything that they know. Surrounded by danger and enemies, humans seem desperate to belong to a system that would sooner bulldoze them into oblivion for profit than to lend a helping hand or fulfill any promises of protection. They have surrendered the gift of power over their own destinies in exchange for servitude and promises that they will be taken care of, with the condition that they do not question those and that which they serve. What does the future hold for human kind? Unless they elevate their consciousness above that of life forms that have no choice, then it is inevitably extinction.
What makes a species become endangered? Is it mostly due to one factor, or is it a combination of more than one? Are endangered or extinct species themselves at fault for their own predicament or demise? Surely not, at least when it comes to species other than humans.
It's been said that 95% of all species of living things in the history of life on Earth are extinct. It has also been said that the Earth is losing between 20 and 150 species every single day. Comforting, no? Well, maybe not all that uncomfortable for most of us, considering that, after all, it's not humans dropping like flies all over the planet. At least not yet.
What brings a species to the precipice of doom can vary from group to group and with different environments or habitats. Lack of food and water, dramatic temperature change, invasive species, disease, and destruction of habitat get the blame most of the time. On rare occasions, freak catastrophic events (like meteor strikes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc.) cause massive damage to large areas and the various living things that inhabit them. Some chalk it up to "natural selection", which is really just an all-inclusive title for a combination of events unforeseen by - and out of the control of - the affected species. Here, however, we come to the underlying difference between human beings and all other species of life that has ever lived: conscious awareness, unforeseen events, and the extent of influence and control of "endangering" factors.
The rainforests are the source of the widest array of species of plants, animals, and insects on the planet. Every day, the most highly developed of the three - the animals - forage or hunt for food, search for water, fight over and control territories, find mates, and raise their young, continuing the cycle and the lessons learned from their parents that has been passed from one generation to the next over the course of hundreds, even thousands years.
None of these animals, however, are consciously aware of the danger they are in from deforestation and human encroachment. On some basic level, they are aware that humans pose a threat, and so they avoid humans and teach their young to do the same. But they are not capable of understanding why, nor do they have the power to prevent humans from destroying the well-being of their kind or environments. They merely go on as they always have, focusing on the immediate, never able to contemplate what it all means, or if it will continue as it has for as long as they have been around.
Ah, but humans...
Humans are remarkable in the fact that despite being far advanced of plants, insects, and animals, great numbers of them choose, either consciously or subconsciously, to behave as the lower forms do. Humans focus on the immediate, on the convenience of what serves their wishes, hungers, and pleasures at a given moment. Humans do as they were taught, because that's how things are done, and because that's the way it has to be. Humans go to the store, to work, to school, to church, to games, bars, court, the gas station, the bank, the movie store, because, well, that's what they were taught, it's what they see other humans doing, so that's what they are supposed to do. What humans don't do for pleasure, they do for "necessity", regardless of whether or not they would find the same things "necessary" or even "pleasurable" if left to their own devices, out of the influence of money and modern society. They merely go on foraging (for food, shiny things, and little pieces of paper), making nests, and playing, hardly ever noticing that the environment in which they live and on which they depend is being transformed, even destroyed, by dangers that are not in the form of typical physical threats, like storms or hungry predators. Humans distance themselves from the thought that doing what everyone else does and doing what they have been taught does not guarantee the same way of life, or even the survival of their species.
Oddly enough, humans themselves are the cause of their own endangerment. War, pollution, nuclear and bio-weapons, theft, rape, and murder on an immensely grand scale threaten everything that they know. Surrounded by danger and enemies, humans seem desperate to belong to a system that would sooner bulldoze them into oblivion for profit than to lend a helping hand or fulfill any promises of protection. They have surrendered the gift of power over their own destinies in exchange for servitude and promises that they will be taken care of, with the condition that they do not question those and that which they serve. What does the future hold for human kind? Unless they elevate their consciousness above that of life forms that have no choice, then it is inevitably extinction.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Hormone experts worried about plastics, chemicals
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hormone experts said on Wednesday they are becoming worried by a chemical called bisphenol A, which some politicians say they want taken out of products and which consumers are increasingly shunning.
They said they have gathered a growing body evidence to show the compound, also known as BPA, might damage human health. The Endocrine Society issued a scientific statement on Wednesday calling for better studies into its effects.
Studies presented at the group's annual meeting show BPA can affect the hearts of women, can permanently damage the DNA of mice, and appear to be pouring into the human body from a variety of unknown sources.
BPA, used to stiffen plastic bottles, line cans and make smooth paper receipts, belongs to a broad class of compounds called endocrine disruptors.
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Friday, May 29, 2009
Glow-in-the-dark monkeys
A genetically engineered monkey has for the first time passed an introduced "alien" gene to its offspring.
Since breeding is cheaper and easier than genetic engineering, the researchers hope the breakthrough will herald development of monkeys that are better models of human disease than genetically modified mice.
Erika Sasaki of the Central Institute for Experimental Animals in Kawasaki, Japan, gave marmosets a jellyfish gene that made them glow green under UV light.
Virus courier
To engineer the "parents", Sasaki injected monkey embryos with a virus carrying the gene for the green fluorescent protein.
Sasaki then placed embryos carrying the gene into seven surrogate mothers. Of these, four gave birth, producing 1 male and 4 female marmosets that carried the green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene.
Later, when the male baby was sexually mature, he successfully fathered a single offspring which also glowed green, showing that it had inherited the GFP gene. One of the females also produced IVF embryos carrying the gene.
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
GM-Soy: Destroy the Earth and Humans for Profit
(NaturalNews) Genetically modified (GM) soy accounts for 91 percent of soybeans planted in the US and is rapidly growing throughout the world [1]. The dangerous biotech created science behind the introduction of GMOs (genetically modified organisms) is rapidly mounting and can no longer be ignored by scientists or the public. The biotech propaganda of increasing crop yield and ending world hunger have been proven false, and attempts to skew the simple fact that the sole reasoning for the mass introduction of untested, toxic and dangerous GMOs into our plants, soil, animals and genes is to increase profits at any expense for the large multinational biotech companies.
GM-soy is estimated to be present in up to 70% of all food products found in US supermarkets, including cereals, breads, soymilk, pasta and most meat (as animals are fed GM-soy feed). Although Monsanto has consistently relied on industry-funded data to declare the safety of GM-soy and glyphosate, objective research published in peer-reviewed journals tells another story.
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GM-soy is estimated to be present in up to 70% of all food products found in US supermarkets, including cereals, breads, soymilk, pasta and most meat (as animals are fed GM-soy feed). Although Monsanto has consistently relied on industry-funded data to declare the safety of GM-soy and glyphosate, objective research published in peer-reviewed journals tells another story.
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Friday, May 8, 2009
Fantastic Natural Phenomena
The classical natural wonders are huge and hard to miss - vast canyons, giant mountains and the like.. Many of the most fantastic natural phenomena, however, are also least easy to spot. Some are incredibly rare while others are located in hard-to-reach parts of the planet. From moving rocks to mammatus clouds and red tides to fire rainbows, here are seven of the most spectacular phenomenal wonders of the natural world.
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