This process with allowing one or two Companies to take control of the food supply is criminal to the extreme.
To control other food systems through pollution and adulterations is fascist.
To own life is abhorrent .
No more need be said on this as we are educated people.
Is it good business to remove ones choice to acquire unadulterated food.
Is it Good business to adulterated food.
Is it good business to create short term profit at the cost of long term existence.
Is it good business to poison your children.
Only if your business is war and destruction.
I grow more of the food I consume in my own garden or acquire it from farmers markets & organic outlets. I avoid supermarkets. If I cannot be assured of my choice I shall choose in a different way, with my feet.
I will not knowingly support business or processes who's default design is to adulterate food or
build poisons into children's toys etc.
The Government needs to ensure that..............................
* Support maintaining state moratoria on GM food crops
* Support strict liability where the GM company is liable for any economic loss caused by their product
* Support independent health testing
* Support independent small scale performance trials
* Support ensuring the GM company is legally responsible for totally containing their product
* Support continued supply of uncontaminated GM-free seed
* Support AQIS screening to prevent GM contamination in imports.
* Support the International Biosafety Protocol.
and
* Oppose increased costs and liabilities for non-GM farmers and non-GM consumers
* Oppose acceptance of tolerance levels
* Oppose large scale commercial release in the guise of coexistence trials
* Oppose commercial release under GM industry self management plans
It is necessary to ensure that this world is for all not the greedy alone and their poisoned victims.
http://www.gefreeaustralia.org/
http://www.truefood.org.au/index2.html
http://non-gm-farmers.com/take_action.asp
Thursday, 28 February 2008
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Monday, 25 February 2008
Husband the Earth
Be mindfull! Husband the Earth. Protect her from greed and violence.
Build humbly, plant trees, grow flowers and cloth her with dignity.
Respect all her creatures.
Honer her natural laws & the universe witch cradles her.
Above all Hartley worship the source of all that is.
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This world needs secret heroes!
Be brave, speak the truth, heal the sick, make peace, be strong, serve patiently.
love generously, live simply, enjoy fellowship, eat & drink modestly,
celebrate the festivals.
Breath deeply, sing & make music, walk often, cycle & recycle.
Be thrifty, prefer cash flow to possessions, and give good measure.
let your work be your prayer.
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Put on the whole Armour of light!
Unearth the beauty in everything. Inhale the spirit of goodness.
Kindle kindness, especially towards yourself.
Embrace the sweet silence of your own soul.
Fear nothing, Accept what you are & while you have breath.
Give thanks.
unknown author
Thursday, 21 February 2008
How do we love all the children of all the species for all time
William McDonoug
"How do we love all the children of all the species for all time"Cradle to Cradle
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/104
http://www.mcdonough.com/writings/cradle_to_cradle-alt.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEyYFYDBhW0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwWWFQ2tiNY
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
Permaculture
If any one would like to help in a Permaculture project I have a room to spare.
It was almost rural, now its suburban, can we help one another.
A room and stable home for help growing the food.
The taste of oil is getting bad.
so it looks like organic and biodinamic
What to do?
I’ve paid the rent enough food for the week, a bit in the yard
What to do! I've looked for a job, Get a job what's that?
The pubs a boor, don’t have the money, don’t read well & TV crap.
What to do, not sitting around being bored.
To the garden down the road
Fruit trees, berry bushes, everything something you can eat.
Different a park, a garden, a meeting place.
Beds of mixed herb’s, insects & birds:
Eat a strawberry, a sweet pea, share a simple joy.
There’s a house with a veranda in the sun & tables & chairs
The best coffee & caring people.
Laughing, taking a break from the world
Can we gain a sense of play?
Get our nails dirty; laugh together with the soil.
What about me over 35
What's this community center I here about
Skate ramp, graffiti, Get lost you old bum
Scattered vacant empty blocks empty & bear
Poker machines horses football, can I win?
In the back corner, patchy disjointed & lame
Offensive fences defending
Untouched Begot ten from an alien world
Why do we hide them? A burden A shame!
Come to tee garden, come & play,
Plant a seed & help it grow
Eat the fruit, taste the bake
Soil plant Animal…… What an Alchemy
Where’s this garden Does anyone know?
Where’s this park down the road
I limp a bit & need some help.
Give a hand!!!’
These videos are eye openers
ABC Science - Crude
ABC Four Corners - Peak Oil
The Massachusetts School of Law - The future of food
The Monsanto Story - Part 1
After getting your mind around this you can see why it is so important to grow food locally.
Thursday, 14 February 2008
On Atheism
I dont think I could match the words of this man.
http://positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/twain.htm
The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for it, protect it from hurt, shield it from disease, clothe it, feed it, bear with its waywardness, lay no hand upon it save in kindness and for its own good, and never in any case inflict upon it a wanton cruelty. God's treatment of his earthly children, every day and every night, is the exact opposite of all that, yet those best minds warmly justify these crimes, condone them, excuse them, and indignantly refuse to regard them as crimes at all, when he commits them. Your country and mine is an interesting one, but there is nothing there that is half so interesting as the human mind.
-- Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth
Wednesday, 13 February 2008
Animal Cruelty
When we enable or profit from the cruel behavior of others, weather it be towards Sheep Cattle Whales or any animal including human, we are also guilty of horrific crimes towards all life.
If we cannot see that our way of life brings great suffering to all including ourselves, we are less than alive, less than the lives we destroy.
Does calling ourselves or others Christian Muslim Jew Japanese Australian American make any difference to our crimes.
Cruelty in any form is unacceptable.
http://www.handlewithcare.tv/
Animal Cruelty group targets Australia
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/
Monday, 4 February 2008
Congratulations
Dear friends,
Last year, tens of thousands of GetUp members across the nation launched one of our most important campaigns ever: demanding that the next parliament and PM say 'sorry' to the Stolen Generations as their very first act on the very first sitting day.
Congratulations, yesterday the PM agreed! Yet as we speak the shape of this historical moment is still being determined in meetings between Labor and Indigenous representatives, in the Liberal party room and in the minds of the millions of Australians who aren't sure how they feel about an apology.
The most important thing the GetUp community can do is demonstrate to all our politicians the broad groundswell of support for a sincere and unifying apology from the whole Parliament. Can you email your MP a quick note right now - and urge all your friends and family to do the same? Our new online tool makes it easy - just enter your postcode.
www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaySorry
Last October, we indicated that Australia's parliament holds a key to a new way forward - symbolically and practically: 'An apology is not about guilt or shame or individual responsibility - it is the embodiment of the spirit of reconciliation, and the springboard for a nation committed to stamp out the systemic ills that still flow from a nation unable to address its past wrongs'.
Our Indigenous colleagues have stressed two factors in the success of this new way forward. First, the supreme importance of cross party support when the PM takes to the Parliament floor. So, if your MP is Liberal, please urge him or her to push the party leadership to support the apology.
Second, the apology was always only meant to be the first step and must be acknowledged as such. So, if your MP is Labor, please support, commend, and thank them - but also remind them that this a starting point and that what is required now is the full and comprehensive response to the Bringing Them Home Report.
Help make this moment the kind of new beginning it deserves to be.
www.getup.org.au/campaign/SaySorry
Thanks for being part of this,
The GetUp team
PS - Our friends at Reconciliation Australia have produced an excellent fact sheet about the apology. If you are unsure about its meaning or want to explain to others about the importance of the apology, please click here and forward it on. The Bringing Them Home Report can also be found here.
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Authorised by Brett Solomon, Level 2, 294 Pitt St, Sydney NSW 2000
The fourth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)
Now or never to save the planet: UN
The fourth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)Humanity is changing Earth's climate so fast and devouring resources so voraciously that it is poised to bequeath a ravaged planet to future generations, the United Nations warned in its most comprehensive survey of the environment.
The fourth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4), published by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), is compiled by 390 experts from observations, studies and data garnered over two decades.
The 570-page report - which caps a year that saw climate change dominate the news - says world leaders must propel the environment "to the core of decision-making" to tackle a daily worsening crisis.
"The need couldn't be more urgent and the time couldn't be more opportune, with our enhanced understanding of the challenges we face, to act now to safeguard our own survival and that of future generations," GEO-4 said.
The UNEP report offers the broadest and most detailed tableau of environmental change since the Brundtland Report, 'Our Common Future', was issued in 1987 and put the environment on the world political map.
"There have been enough wake-up calls since Brundtland. I sincerely hope GEO-4 is the final one," said UNEP executive director Achim Steiner.
"The systematic destruction of the Earth's natural and nature-based resources has reached a point where the economic viability of economies is being challenged - and where the bill we hand on to our children may prove impossible to pay," he added.
Earth has experienced five mass extinctions in 450 million years, the latest of which occurred 65 million years ago, says GEO-4.
"A sixth major extinction is under way, this time caused by human behaviour," it says.
Over the past two decades, growing prosperity has tremendously strengthened the capacity to understand and confront the environmental challenges ahead.
Despite this, the global response has been "woefully inadequate," the report said.
The report listed environmental issues by continent and by sector, offering dizzying and often ominous statistics about the future.
Climate is changing faster than at any time in the past 500,000 years.
Global average temperatures rose by 0.74 degrees Celsius over the past century and are forecast to rise by 1.8 to 4 Celsius by 2100, it said, citing estimates issued this year by the 2007 Nobel Peace co-laureates, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
With more than six billion humans, Earth's population is now so big that "the amount of resources needed to sustain it exceeds what is available," the report warned, adding that the global population is expected to peak at between eight and 9.7 billion by 2050.
"In Africa, land degradation and even desertification are threats; per capita food production has declined by 12 per cent since 1981," it said.
The GEO-4 report went on to enumerate other strains on the planet's resources and biodiversity.
Fish consumption has more than tripled over the past 40 years but catches have stagnated or declined for 20 years, it said.
"Of the major vertebrate groups that have been assessed comprehensively, over 30 per cent of amphibians, 23 per cent of mammals and 12 per cent of birds are threatened," it added.
Stressing it was not seeking to present a "dark and gloomy scenario", UNEP took heart in the successes from efforts to combat ozone loss and chemical air pollution.
But it also stressed that failure to address persistent problems could undo years of hard grind.
And it noted: "Some of the progress achieved in reducing pollution in developed countries has been at the expense of the developing world, where industrial production and its impacts are now being exported."
GEO-4 - the fourth in a series dating back to 1997 - also looks at how the current trends may unfold and outlines four scenarios to the year 2050: "Markets First", "Policy First", "Security First", "Sustainability First".
After a year that saw the UN General Assembly devote unprecedented attention to climate change and the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the IPCC and former US vice president Al Gore for raising awareness on the same issue, the report's authors called for radical change.
"For some of the persistent problems, the damage may already be irreversible," they warned.
"The only way to address these harder problems requires moving the environment from the periphery to the core of decision-making: environment for development, not development to the detriment of environment."
- AFP
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