No - as someone said - too big to stop.

No. We can do nothing to Monsanto, via the new Monsanto Protection Act, which was attached to the funding bill that PO signed late last night, while no one was watching.
I'm sure there was no signing ceremony.

this comment by a lawyer was written before the signing with hope it would not be signed.
Such bad news - where to go from here? I just don't know.

http://mobile.legalexaminer.com/miscellaneous/will-monsanto-protection-act-prevail.aspx?googleid=307722

This is what the money-grubbers call "Progress." It's getting to where I want them to stop this world and let me off.

Did you ever hear Vandanna Shiva tell about what all has been going on in India, re Monsanto? I forget how many thousands of farmers she said had committed suicide in India because of their dealings with Monsanto cotton seed. They would buy it with what little funds they had, plant it and it wouldn't grow. Next growing season would come along and they would again scrape up the money to buy more seed. This went on and on and suddenly, farmers started committing suicide over it all. Prince Charles went over there himself so he could hear their story himself, and the little wives and family members told him everything. Prince Charles gave a big press release about it, and I haven't heard anything out of him since. And that was many years ago. I don't know, maybe someone here does, if the cotton plant requires bees to complete their growing cycle? Could be the insecticide is poisonous to the bees and therefore, the plant doesn't mature. Guess it would depend on when they spray it? I'm way above my pay-grade here, but something just clicked when I read this thread's OP.

is a real hero for all of humanity. I guess if she can find a way forward - we can too.
I think I will google around to find something inspirational but man - what people won't do for money.

Our food sources have been forever damaged and changed and now none of these species is functioning as it should.

We have all been affected by this, when you can't digest the food you eat you end up with an endless # of autoimmune diseases that "there's a drug for". Is Monsanto invested in these drug companies who are creating the drugs to treat all these diseases that they caused?

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/321492/butterfly-numbers-come-crashing-down.html

Michael Wines, Mar 26, 2013, New York Times News Service :

The migration of the monarch butterfly is seen as a natural marvel and, for Mexico, a huge tourist attraction. But naturalists regard the butterflies as a forward indicator of the health of the food chain. Fewer butterflies probably mean there are fewer other insects that are food for birds, and fewer birds for larger predators, writes Michael Wines.



The number of monarch butterflies that completed an annual migration to their winter home in a Mexican forest sank this year to its lowest level in at least two decades, due mostly to extreme weather and changed farming practices in North America, the Mexican government and a conservation alliance reported recently.

The area of forest occupied by the butterflies, once as high at 50 acres, dwindled to 2.94 acres in the annual census conducted in December, Mexico’s National Commission of Natural Protected Areas disclosed at a news conference in Zitacuaro, Mexico.


FULL story at link.

My orange tree used to attract hundreds of them this time of year when it's blooming. I also notice a paucity of bees working the tree too.

Organic gardening has been around since...well, forever, when I think of it.

However, in historical times, it began to be remembered/promoted in the 1930's by J.I. Rodale, the founder of Organic Farming and Gardening Magazine. They are still publishing, and tons of info is available for free at your public library, and on-line.

http://www.rodaleinc.com/products/magazines

www.motherearthnews.com/

I would also suggest that people check out bio-dynamic gardening and permaculture.

There are tons of great resources on all of these topics.

My favorite garden books:

"Garden Anywhere" by Alys Fowler

"Lasagna Gardening" and "Lasagna Gardening in Small Spaces" by Patricia Lanza

"The Medicinal Herb Grower -Volume 1" by Richo Cech.

Poisons and artificial fertilizers are not needed, are harmful to all living beings, and kill earthworms and the soil microbes which create fertile soil in the first place.

I hope for the sake of all life on Earth, that more people work to educate themselves on this subject.

May the Earth be healed, for the benefit of all beings.

The only time I ever had to do something about insects was in a stressed environment (too hot, no rain, too windy) and had an infestation of grasshoppers that were eating everything down to the ground. Garlic, hot peppers, companion plants and chickens were unable to keep up with them. I ordered a strain of Bt that was mixed with oatmeal to put out that only affected them.

They ate it, lost their appetite, died, then ate each other which served to pass the bacteria to others which acted much like a stomach flu. It reduced their numbers so I could get a crop.

It occurs naturally in some areas if the soil conditions are right and there is sufficient rain. That wasn't the case there, but in less than a week the grasshoppers were no longer a problem.

I always used compost, mulch, natural manure and companion plants. This can be done by anyone. When one realizes that healthy soil is the key, and that it is a living thing, it's not hard to get away from other methods.

I don't know what they teach in school now, but it was the way to go for many years.

I mix up potions right here at home to put on my garden. Beer, fish emulsion, Epsom salt, galic, human urine, yada, yada, yada. PUt it in a front end loader and snap it on the end of the hose and away I go. It's all naturale. And I have lots of bees. Great big yellow jackets, which I called bumble bees when I was a kid. Got stung by one of those babies when I was a little girl and I will never forget it. Thought I was 'gonna die. (As Gilda Radner used to say it on SNL years ago..."Emily Lotilla?&quot Funny, because the bees and I peacefully coexist out there together all the time now. (In season, of course, which we still don't have yet because of the late winter.) ........."Never mind"...

Healthy soil is the key. It takes @ 3 years to build the soil up to have enough nutrients to grow healthy plants.

Sounds like you had to deal with a difficult conditions (too hot, no rain, too windy). That stresses the plants, big time.

A really interesting book on that subject is "The Secret Life Of Plants" by...I think it is Peter Thompson and Christopher Bird? Can't seem to locate my copy at the moment.

My home town is a hot bed for organic gardening. Many of our area schools have organic gardens and the kids get to plant and harvest produce which is used in the food served in the cafeteria.

I just wish more people would use organic methods. I hate the smell of the Ortho products. I can always tell if someone has used that nasty stuff.

Bless you, Sir. Wishing you a good evening.

Just Say No to pesticides, herbicides, artificial fertilizers, and GMO seeds and frankenfoods.