Calling Things by Their Name: The World’s Urgent Summons to Agrosanity
Hello Neighbors,
I hope you will take some time to read the following message and link. Yes, it is a call for an eye opening if you haven’t been aware of the technology that has been developed by seed and chemical corporations these last few decades. Many of us cover our moral eyes to these disastrous applications as they have made our ways of life so simple and easy. Living for just today has a big price to pay.
Been there, done that!
Jim Knopik
Calling Things by Their Name: The World’s Urgent Summons to Agrosanity
For industrial-chemical-genetically-modified agribusiness, this has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad, butt-kick summer. Maximally so.
The whole, gargantuan, super-efficient, hyper-technical, chemical-dependent agriborg has been repeatedly whacked upside the head by reality. Yet despite a steady assault of paradigm-shattering facts, the mega-tentacled, bottom-line corporate complex plows systematically onward into toxic drainage ditches of its own fouling.
As made inescapably evident by the flood of ag-related news stories arising through summer 2015, corporate chemical GMO systems have over time spawned a deeply problematic matrix of land, animals and human beings. For the sake of life, it’s time to stop, to look at reality, to terminate intoxication, and to change direction. It’s time to act fast.
The news stories cited below represent a chorus of sharp alarms. At the same time they also represent an urgent summons to agrosanity – the necessity to act with intelligence and common sense to transform the contaminating status quo into clean, sustainable, agroecological farm and food systems in America and globally.
That summons to agricultural sanity is the call of the land. The call is plain: to actively transform and retrofit existing systems to agroecological enterprises that will heal rather than harm the land and the people. This ideal, given eloquent expression in the Seventh Generation teaching which is native to North America, is a critical thread in the rising network of community farm and food initiatives. Many of the emerging agroecological initiatives offer models that could be of high service for the wholesale agriculture transformation which is now imperative.
Here’s a roundup of gut-wrenching, paradigm-annihilating Ag news just for the months of summer 2015: …