Tell the EPA: Immediately suspend the pesticide that's killing bees!

Tell the EPA: Immediately suspend the pesticide that's killing bees!: "Tell the EPA: Immediately suspend the pesticide that's killing bees! A blockbuster study released last week by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), has for the first time labeled the pesticide clothianidin as an "unacceptable" danger to bees.  1"

'via Blog this'

What makes a great Blog? It must have a cause. We at MooPig Enterprises have taken on several causes in our publications. But we are not yet a great Blog, because seemingly, no one is listening! Colony Cascade Disorder, CCD, is one cause we are serious about. It is like this: if there are no bees, there are no cattle; there are no pigs.

The circle of life, so precious on earth, calls on us seldom, because we are, take this personally, notorious bad stewards. We have polluted the entire ocean. Now that my friends is a major boo-boo.  And we have not stopped there. We have tainted the food supply and its chain of workers, the friendly insects, birds, worms, and frogs.

Original article in MooPig Wisdom ::
Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  May 20, 2012  |  Bryan TX

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90 Percent of Corn Seeds Are Coated With Bayer's Bee-Decimating Pesticide | Mother Jones: "When a company dominates markets and can buy lobbying power in Washington, its products don't actually have to work, I suppose." When seed companies decided to begin genetic storage of all the seeds in the world, it was ground breaking news. Now it has become a capitalists' domination of the market: Genetically Engineered [GE] Seeds. The first and largest player is Monsanto:

" ... The Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) is a multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation. It is the world's leading producer of the herbicide glyphosate, marketed in the Roundup brand, and in other brands. Monsanto is also the second largest producer of genetically engineered (GE) seed; it provides the technology in 49% of the genetically engineered seeds used in the US market. It is headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri. ("Monsanto CFO to retire." St. Louis Business Journal. Wednesday 12 August 2009. Retrieved on 19 August 2009.) ... "

Monsanto has been one of top ten chemical companies since 1940's ...

The 1940s saw Monsanto become a leading manufacturer of plastics, including polystyrene and synthetic fibers. Since then, it has remained one of the top 10 US chemical companies. Other major products have included the herbicides 2,4,5-T, DDT, and Agent Orange used primarily during the Vietnam War as a defoliant agent (later found to be contaminated during manufacture with highly carcinogenic dioxin), the artificial sweetener aspartame (NutraSweet), bovine somatotropin (bovine growth hormone (BST)), and PCBs....Also in this decade, Monsanto operated the Dayton Project, and later Mound Laboratories in Miamisburg, Ohio, for the Manhattan Project, the development of the first nuclear weapons and, after 1947, the Atomic Energy Commission. ("Monsanto Held Liable For PCB Dumping". The Washington Post. Retrieved 5 April 2010.)

In 2009 Monsanto is still very large and dominant in chemical markets, but anti-trust rules are being scrutinized by the Department of Justice, and litigation from around the world has made Monsanto a different kind of headliner. 'via Blog this' Since 1982 Monsanto has developed GE seed and experimented with crops of them in use. In January 2010, Monsanto was named company of the year by Forbes.

Monsanto is the largest producer of glyphosate herbicides through its popular brand, Roundup. A report released in June 2011 linked glyphosate to birth defects in frog and chicken embryos at dilutions much lower than those used in agricultural and garden spraying. (Roundup and birth defects: Is the public being kept in the dark? by Michael Antoniou, Mohamed Ezz El-Din Mostafa Habib, C Vyvyan Howard, Richard Jennings, Carlo Leifert, Rubens Onofre Nodari, Claire Robinson, John Fagan. Earth Open Source, 2011)

CONCLUSION: Monsanto has its finger in everyone's soup ... worldwide.

______________________Reference
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/05/catching-my-reading-ahead-pesticide-industry-confab http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2007/08/open-source-some-follow-up-on-honey-bee.html http://www.hcn.org/issues/342/16891 http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2007/06/breaking-story-honey-bee-down.html http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2008/03/honoring-honey-bees-with-yellow-and.html http://pollinator.org/multimedia.htm http://pollinator.org/Resources/TotalWheel%20v6%2005%2010%2007.pdf http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070125115707.htm http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/02/05/bees_ani_02.html?category=travel&guid=20070205144500

http://treehuggerbarbie.com/2012/02/29/why-is-monsanto-bad/ http://www.newfrontier.com/asheville/bad_seed.htm http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/monsanto_movie080307/

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http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/efsa_bees/?r_by=53880-4989855-MeplPix&rc=confemail
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2012/05/moopig-wisdom-environmental-leading.html http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/efsa_bees/?r_by=53880-4989855-MeplPix&rc=confemail
1. "Pesticides and Honey Bees: State of the Science," Pesticide Action Network North America
2. " Insecticide 'unacceptable' danger to bees, report finds," Guardian, 1/16/13
3. "European Agency concludes neonicotinoid pesticides too dangerous for bees," NRDC, 1/16/13
4. "Leaked document shows EPA allowed bee-toxic pesticide despite own scientists' red flags," Grist, 12/10/10
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070125115707.htm

NASA Talk :: Moon's Gravity

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Dec 10, 2012 | Bryan TX

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GRAIL's Gravity Map of the Moon
This image shows the variations in the lunar gravity field as measured by NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) during the primary mapping mission from March to May 2012. Very precise microwave measurements between two spacecraft, named Ebb and Flow, were used to map gravity with high precision and high spatial resolution. The field shown resolves blocks on the surface of about 12 miles (20 kilometers) and measurements are three to five orders of magnitude improved over previous data. Red corresponds to mass excesses and blue corresponds to mass deficiencies. The map shows more small-scale detail on the far side of the moon compared to the nearside because the far side has many more small craters.

› See video

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MIT/GSFC
Page Last Updated: December 6, 2012
Page Editor: Tony Greicius
NASA Official: Brian Dunbar

MooPig Wisdom Environmental Leading Indicators Department :: "Frogs, Chickens, Corn, and Bees"

Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  May 20, 2012  |  Bryan TX

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90 Percent of Corn Seeds Are Coated With Bayer's Bee-Decimating Pesticide | Mother Jones: "When a company dominates markets and can buy lobbying power in Washington, its products don't actually have to work, I suppose."

When seed companies decided to begin genetic storage of all the seeds in the world, it was ground breaking news. Now it has become a capitalists' domination of the market: Genetically Engineered [GE] Seeds. The first and largest player is Monsanto:

" ... The Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) is a multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation. It is the world's leading producer of the herbicide glyphosate, marketed in the Roundup brand, and in other brands. Monsanto is also the second largest producer of genetically engineered (GE) seed; it provides the technology in 49% of the genetically engineered seeds used in the US market. It is headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri.
("Monsanto CFO to retire." St. Louis Business Journal. Wednesday 12 August 2009. Retrieved on 19 August 2009.) ... "

Monsanto has been one of top ten chemical companies since 1940's ...

The 1940s saw Monsanto become a leading manufacturer of plastics, including polystyrene and synthetic fibers. Since then, it has remained one of the top 10 US chemical companies. Other major products have included the herbicides 2,4,5-T, DDT, and Agent Orange used primarily during the Vietnam War as a defoliant agent (later found to be contaminated during manufacture with highly carcinogenic dioxin), the artificial sweetener aspartame (NutraSweet), bovine somatotropin (bovine growth hormone (BST)), and PCBs....Also in this decade, Monsanto operated the Dayton Project, and later Mound Laboratories in Miamisburg, Ohio, for the Manhattan Project, the development of the first nuclear weapons and, after 1947, the Atomic Energy Commission. ("Monsanto Held Liable For PCB Dumping". The Washington Post. Retrieved 5 April 2010.)

In 2009 Monsanto is still very large and dominant in chemical markets, but anti-trust rules are being scrutinized by the Department of Justice, and litigation from around the world has made Monsanto a different kind of headliner.

'via Blog this'

Since 1982 Monsanto has developed GE seed and experimented with crops of them in use.

In January 2010, Monsanto was named company of the year by Forbes.

Monsanto is the largest producer of glyphosate herbicides through its popular brand, Roundup. A report released in June 2011 linked glyphosate to birth defects in frog and chicken embryos at dilutions much lower than those used in agricultural and garden spraying. (Roundup and birth defects: Is the public being kept in the dark? by Michael Antoniou, Mohamed Ezz El-Din Mostafa Habib, C Vyvyan Howard, Richard Jennings, Carlo Leifert, Rubens Onofre Nodari, Claire Robinson, John Fagan. Earth Open Source, 2011)

CONCLUSION: Monsanto has its finger in everyone's soup ... worldwide.

________________Reference
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/05/catching-my-reading-ahead-pesticide-industry-confab
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2007/08/open-source-some-follow-up-on-honey-bee.html
http://www.hcn.org/issues/342/16891
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2007/06/breaking-story-honey-bee-down.html
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/2008/03/honoring-honey-bees-with-yellow-and.html
http://pollinator.org/multimedia.htm
http://pollinator.org/Resources/TotalWheel%20v6%2005%2010%2007.pdf
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070125115707.htm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/02/05/bees_ani_02.html?category=travel&guid=20070205144500

http://treehuggerbarbie.com/2012/02/29/why-is-monsanto-bad/
http://www.newfrontier.com/asheville/bad_seed.htm
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/monsanto_movie080307/

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Honoring Honey Bees with Yellow and Black

This week MooPigWisdom honors the Honey Bee by changing our colors to Black and Yellow to welcome Spring Flowers and our sacred Pollinators.

http://pollinator.org/multimedia.htm Pollinators At Risk ~ Assignment Earth
(11.9 MB, QuickTime movie)

Go to these links to find some followup info --

http://pollinator.org/Garden_Wheel.htm What is the Pollinator Garden Wheel?
The Pollinator Garden Wheel is an engaging, colorful, and informational resource aimed at generating a more active gardening population, aware of the importance of pollinators – the birds, bees, bats, butterflies, beetles, and other animals that enable the reproduction of 85% of flowering plants and are responsible for as much as one-third of our food supply. Click here to view the Pollinator Garden Wheel.

"This week we at MooPigWisdom honor the Honey Bee by changing our colors to Black and Yellow to welcome Spring Flowers and our sacred Pollinators."

The Bees in Brazos Valley have returned, and reports that they are in Neighboring Houston Area make the Pig and I happy.

"Pig and I thought we were goners, extinct, when last year Honey Bees disappeared."