Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wish you had been wrong... On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > PESO: > > I couldn't find the thread where we were discussing the disappearance of > the Monarch but this appeared this morning from tomorrow's NYT: > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/sunday-review/the-year-the-monarch-didnt-appear.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0 > > A big part of it is the way the United States farms. As the price of corn > has soared in recent years, driven by federal subsidies for biofuels, > farmers have expanded their fields. That has meant plowing every scrap of > earth that can grow a corn plant, including millions of acres of land once > reserved in a federal program for conservation purposes. > > Another major cause is farming with Roundup, a herbicide that kills > virtually all plants except crops that are genetically modified to survive > it. > > As a result, millions of acres of native plants, especially milkweed, an > important source of nectar for many species, and vital for monarch > butterfly larvae, have been wiped out. > Onestudy< > http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1752-4598.2011.00142.x/abstract > > > showed > that Iowa has lost almost 60 percent of its milkweed, and > another<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261219410002152 > > > found > 90 percent was gone. ?The agricultural landscape has been sterilized,? said > Dr. Brower. > I was right about Monsanto! > > Tina > -- > Tina Manley > http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Bob Adler