April 2011
Spraying weeds with Roundup herbicide kills them. Spraying GM Roundup Ready crops with Roundup fills them up with Roundup. Spraying people and their food with Roundup has been 'proved' safe. But is it?
Roundup disrupts human cells
April 2011
There's evidence of what Roundup does to human cells that Monsanto doesn't like at all.
French scientists have revealed that Monsanto's prize herbicide, Roundup, may not be anything like as safe as previously supposed.
There's evidence of what Roundup does to human cells that Monsanto doesn't like at all.
French scientists have revealed that Monsanto's prize herbicide, Roundup, may not be anything like as safe as previously supposed.
Roundup makes plants sick
April 2011
Do you want to eat sick plants? Or to feed the livestock which provide your food on sick plants? Are you comfortable with giving the vulnerable in the developing world sick plants to eat? Then just spray them with Roundup.
Safe as salt? Not Roundup
April 2011
There's no such thing as a poison that's 'safe as salt' Roundup is no exception.
There's no such thing as a poison that's 'safe as salt' Roundup is no exception.
Carbon-reducing myths
March 2011
Policy-makers and corporate executives have been scrambling to find a way to ditch our current dependency on fossil-fuels. Not only is oil becoming increasingly scarce and costly, but we're releasing so much carbon dioxide gas that we're cooking ourselves.
The fashionable answer to the problem is a transition to a 'bioeconomy'. This 'clean', 'green', 'renewable', 'sustainable' economy of the future will be based on biomass from agricultural crops, forests and algae.
Even to those unversed in science, this alternative to fossil fuels is quite clearly no more sustainable than our current energy source. It's simply dependent on other finite natural resources which are already limiting: suitable land area, soil nutrients, and fresh water.
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The fashionable answer to the problem is a transition to a 'bioeconomy'. This 'clean', 'green', 'renewable', 'sustainable' economy of the future will be based on biomass from agricultural crops, forests and algae.
Even to those unversed in science, this alternative to fossil fuels is quite clearly no more sustainable than our current energy source. It's simply dependent on other finite natural resources which are already limiting: suitable land area, soil nutrients, and fresh water.
Truth, beauty and science
March 2011
The Charter signed by King Charles II in 1662 for the formation of The Royal Society of London was granted in order that the whole world of letters may always recognize the United Kingdom as the universal lover and patron of every kind of truth.
Henri Poincare (1854-1912), a top French mathematician-physicist in his day, defined science in terms of beauty:
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Henri Poincare (1854-1912), a top French mathematician-physicist in his day, defined science in terms of beauty:
“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it; and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing and life would not be worth living”.What Poincare was taking about was
“the ultimate beauty which comes from the harmonious order of its parts and which a pure intelligence can grasp.”
Somerset GM contamination
March 2011
In December 2008, the UK Government announced that unauthorised GM oil-seed rape (OSR) had been found growing in Somerset.
The offending grain received EU approval for import, food and animal feed use in 2005 providing the handlers had been given appropriate plans for eradicating any volunteer GM OSR plants which could arise.
The contamination was found in a small trial field of a new non-GM variety of OSR shipped from a Monsanto seed production farm in Idaho. It was found to be contaminated with about five GM seeds in every 10,000. This doesn't sound like a lot, but nevertheless an adjacent OSR trial crop was found to have been contaminated at a measurable level of one in 10,000.
The offending grain received EU approval for import, food and animal feed use in 2005 providing the handlers had been given appropriate plans for eradicating any volunteer GM OSR plants which could arise.
The contamination was found in a small trial field of a new non-GM variety of OSR shipped from a Monsanto seed production farm in Idaho. It was found to be contaminated with about five GM seeds in every 10,000. This doesn't sound like a lot, but nevertheless an adjacent OSR trial crop was found to have been contaminated at a measurable level of one in 10,000.
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