---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Argon Michael Hart, a conventional livestock family farmer, has been farming in Cornwall for nearly thirty years and has actively campaigned on behalf of family farmers for over fifteen years, traveling extensively in Europe, India, Canada and the USA. In this short documentary he investigates the reality of farming genetically modified crops in the USA ten years after their introduction. He travels across the US interviewing farmers and other specialists about their experiences of growing GM. During the making of the film he heard problems of the ever increasing costs of seeds and chemicals to weeds becoming resistant to herbicides. US farmers told him that a single pass (one herbicide application) is a fallacy and concurred that three or more passes are the norm for GM crops. As weeds have become more resistant to glyphosate there has been a sharp increase in the use of herbicide tank mixes (most of them patented and owned by the biotech companies). Astonishingly some farmers were now having to resort to hand labour to remove weeds. Farmers have seen the costs spiral, for example, the price of seed has gone from $40 to over $100 per acre over the last few years. Farmers referred to co-existence (the ability to grow GM crops next to non-GM and organic crops) as “unsolvable” and say that it does not work. the film is available on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEX654gN3c4 -- http://guri.hipatia.net - GNURI: Software Libero nell'educazione http://hipatia.net - Hipatia: Libre Knowledge in action http://news.hipatia.net Jabber: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fingerprint: 1CD6 BCD3 582C 9107 3173 AE0C 1457 F9D5 E4DE AEB8 Public key: 0xE4DEAEB8 - http://pgp.mit.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Hipatia mailing list [email protected] http://listas.hipatia.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hipatia -- Diego Saravia [email protected] NO FUNCIONA->[email protected] ==================================================================== "Disclaimer:" Haré lo que desee con los correos que reciba, quien no este de acuerdo, que se abstenga de enviarme correo a mí o a las listas donde este suscripto. En particular NO VALE ningun "disclaimer" que indique que el correo enviado es privado o sujeto a normas de empresas, gobiernos, u organizaciones de cualquier tipo. Con relación a los estados y sus leyes, analizare cualquier norma aplicable en el territorio donde eventualmente actúe en el momento, escucho a cualquiera que tenga algo que decir. Con respecto en particular a los derechos de autor, salvo acuerdo previo, gozaré plenamente de las 4 libertades con todo lo que reciba, considerandolo, en cuanto a lo patrimonial, como propio. ====================================================================