Seeds are the basis of our food supply. We will be eating food that has been engineered to be sterile – unless we persuade the Government to support the UN ban on terminator technology. “Let individual countries decide for themselves” is not a good strategy given the transportation of grains willy-nilly throughout a global community. […]
NOTE: The “Doomsday Seed Vault”announced in January 2006 officially opened 2008-02-26. By then Monsanto was a funder, along with Syngenta, the Bill Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. This article pretty well covers things, with additional links: 2011-12-23 GMO (Update Spitzbergen) Discover the doomsday seed vault’s secrets I am quite sure that the […]
Awesome things happening. You are truly a wonderful group of people! I am indeed fortunate to work with you. I believe our grand children will benefit. On their behalf, “Tussen takk”, a thousand thanks as the Norwegians say. CONTENTS (YOU DON’T HAVE TO READ EVERYTHING!) (1) IMPACT ON FARMERS: Thanks to Brent. One short […]
Many thanks to Al Taylor: “With a record like this why in the world would Canada, or anyone else wasnt to give these guys permission to do anything, let alone introduce a genetically altered wheat.” ========================================================== PANNA Corporate Profile: BASF AG November 2005 BASF is the world’s largest chemical company. It is composed of five […]
Regarding ethics: “The fact of twilight does not mean you cannot tell night from day.” —————————- http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,426733,00.html Investing in Ethics The Norwegian Model By Manfred Ertel Norway is rich in oil and natural gas. But it’s also a resource success story that could provide a model for other nations. The country invests the lion’s share […]
The documentary “Life Running Out of Control” helps make sense of the actions in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) which were the subject of yesterday’s posting – MOVING GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS OUTSIDE THE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK. This posting is background to the next which explains how it works and which will be further input to the General Directive […]
Further to: 2005-12-03 Transgenics (GMO): HERBICIDE TOLERANT WHEAT, BACK AGAIN, INPUT DEADLINE JAN 7 This adds (details follow the points): – red herring argument and how to address it: BASF’s process is mutagenesis, not transgenics as in Monsanto’s RR wheat. From my telephone conversation with the CFIA, this is the argument they try to […]
I don’t even want to think about how many months we and many others put into the battle to stop the introduction of herbicide-resistant wheat. Here it is back again, this time from the chemical company BASF (not Monsanto). My letter to the CFIA is appended. I did not restrain myself. I am very angry. […]
CONTENTS (1) COMMENTS (2) FOLLOW-UP ON 2006 CANADIAN CENSUS, CONTRACTED OUT TO LOCKHEED-MARTIN (2a) Copy of Expense Claims from 2nd in command at StatsCan, 2009 and 2010: Lockheed Martin provides the “steerage” for the Census operations (3) RELATED STORY: CTV NEWS, NOV 23, ANGRY CANADIAN PAYS OFF VISA BILL WITH PENNIES =============================== (1) COMMENTS In […]
Return to INDEX A thirsty Uncle looks north It’s not the crude: What the U.S. most needs is our water. We must not let it flow through our hands, says former Alberta premier PETER LOUGHEED By PETER LOUGHEED The Globe and Mail, Friday, November 11, 2005 I predict that the United States will […]