Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What! No fair. You already have the Guinness plant and the shamrock! Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Nov 23, 2013, at 7:08 PM, Douglas Barry wrote: > That's why we don't allow GM crops in Ireland. It's part of our long term > global stategy, when the rest of the world loses its biodiversity, we in > Ireland will sell you ours :-) > > Douglas > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> > To: <MUGers at yahoogroups.com>; "Leica Users Group" <lug at > leica-users.org>; "paw" <paw at micapeak.com>; "seephoto" <seephoto at > micapeak.com>; "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus at thomasclausen.net> > Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 4:01 PM > Subject: [Leica] Monarch Disappearance > > >> PESO: >> >> I couldn't find the thread where we were discussing the disappearance of >> the Monarch but this appeared this morning from tomorrow's NYT: >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/sunday-review/the-year-the-monarch-didnt-appear.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0 >> >> A big part of it is the way the United States farms. As the price of corn >> has soared in recent years, driven by federal subsidies for biofuels, >> farmers have expanded their fields. That has meant plowing every scrap of >> earth that can grow a corn plant, including millions of acres of land once >> reserved in a federal program for conservation purposes. >> >> Another major cause is farming with Roundup, a herbicide that kills >> virtually all plants except crops that are genetically modified to survive >> it. >> >> As a result, millions of acres of native plants, especially milkweed, an >> important source of nectar for many species, and vital for monarch >> butterfly larvae, have been wiped out. >> Onestudy<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1752-4598.2011.00142.x/abstract> >> showed >> that Iowa has lost almost 60 percent of its milkweed, and >> another<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261219410002152> >> found >> 90 percent was gone. ?The agricultural landscape has been sterilized,? >> said >> Dr. Brower. >> I was right about Monsanto! >> >> Tina >> -- >> Tina Manley >> http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information