Bees, Seeds (and Organic) Talk

Blundin2005 · June 2007

This article came up in my Yahoo Cancer Research update that I get every day.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3898312 (I hope this link works)

Bees are disappearing in the US ... genetically modified food is suspected to contribute to this. I guess if it doesn't taste good to us it won't taste good to them! Also, when a cell phone was placed near a hive, the bees didn't return! Then an article that Dept of Agriculture funded research to make the "terminator seed" .... one that does not reproduce ... thus you need to "BUY MORE". Now isn't that Special!

One of my favorite things about the garden is to watch the bees work on the pollen! I'll hope that Europe doesn't cave into the US demands to export the genetically modified food! Then what? Halt all bees at the border and check their documents?!

I guess that I'm really getting too old! I want life to flow through the basics. I think that unless you are a robot, organics perpetuate existence. Has George Orwell's prediction come true? Were we invaded by ROBOTS when we weren't looking?!!!!!

How cleaver the artificial intelligence can be!!!!! I think though that I still like the REAL THING!

OK the link works....and here is another one about diet and exercise related to cancer

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/health/20070608-1629-bn08cancer.html

Now this is the reason that some intelligent people associate bees and seeds to the topic of cancer!

Rosemary .... imagine if the research dollars were REALLY intended to support humanity instead of corporate interests! Now there's a place to direct our menopause frustrations! and do so good along the way! Mother Earth at it's best! There is a reason for everything ... even our menopause frustrations!

Define Organic!

http://food.yahoo.com/blog/editorspicks/179/the-musts-and-myths-of-organic-and-locally-grown

ciao,

Rosemary44 · June 2007

Marilyn,

If they were really spending their research dollars wisely, they would be telling us which 5 fruits and which 5 vegetables do the most to ward off cancer and it's recurrence. Say if I ate 5 servings of rhubarb, would that work? So we can just pick and choose 5 of anything and we'll remain cancer free? Wonderful. I think the Walton's misspend their money.

Blundin2005 · June 2007

Hi Rosemary,

Sorry to delay to respond. Did you mean the Waltons from the TV show? Yes, probably they needed to put their returns into hedge funds?!

Aren't there many studies from the perspective of differnt cultures around the world that incorporate the impact of diet, life style, pollution, etc? I think it's very difficult to isolate only diet don't you think? But ...... I think what follows the path of a well managed food supply by a healthy society and the government they create to organize that society, is well managed social environments in general. It seems there is still much for us to learn and apply when it comes to the economic sciences and principles of diminishing returns when the are applied independent of external as well as internal influences. Accountability is a good measure ..... if we can only agree on what a "good measure" is and for whom.

Maybe the reality is that the populations have reached a critical mass that move like lemmings to the edge of the clift while only a few stand back to observe the march and survive to build another day. The question I still ask myself is "build what?" "and for what purpose?". My perspectives seem to be so infantile sometimes ..... flower child that I was and am still I think. For all that I thought changed for the better, it seems only the measures of the term "better" changed and nothing else at all! Maybe this is the lesson that I still need to learn.

Rosemary44 · June 2007

The Walton's put $5 mil to help fund the study. I think they are the Wal-Mart family. I really appreciate that big money is coming in to fund these studies, but when it gets reported on, the money is being misspent.

It's one thing to do a study, but it's more important to get the word out about what one should eat, what's the best exercise, is walking the only exercise?

Lots of money is going into duplicate studies. This is not the first time we've read the importance of eating right and getting exercise, that advice has been around for quite some time. To spend $35 million on this so we know to eat 5 fruits a day, well for that money, I want them to tell me which fruits to eat. By the way, the heart association has been saying 5 fruits and 5 veggies for a few years now. They did they're own study. More millions spent on the same advice.

"The new study stems from Women's Healthy Eating and Living, or WHEL, a large project that Pierce oversees. The project has received $30 million from the National Cancer Institute over the past 12 years, plus $5 million from the Walton Family Foundation".

Now they're going to study veggies. Well I can save them the money, just eat 5 servings of greens daily. The dim veggies are a good choice. Broccoli, kale, brussel sprouts, cauliflower and they should get wonderful results.
And this advice has also been around for quite some time.

joanne_elizabeth · July 2007

Aren't there many studies from the perspective of differnt cultures around the world that incorporate the impact of diet, life style, pollution, etc?
yes that is so true, but our gov't doesn't seem to care enough to stop the pollution of the American people.
What can you do?

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