--- On Wed, 12/5/12, Don Semple <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> But I am smart enough to see where things are heading
>
> More self pollinating crops
> More marginal land used for crops
> More seedless fruits
> More monoculture
> More propped up bees
> Less native pollinators
> More changes to wildlife
> Larger and larger farms
> etc, etc, etc

I agree the intensification of agricultural practices is
continuing with no end in sight based on my nearly 30 years
as a pesticide salesman in California's Central Valley
and in the Midwest.

However, even in the most intensive GMO corn monocultures I
could find in the upper Midwest, I have still been able
to find plenty of bumblebees, honeybees and butterflies
on flowers growing next to the corn fields.  Here is a 9
minute video I shot last August along two roadsides that
border huge fields of GMO corn that was grown from
neonicitinoid insecticide treated seed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTJZFJ1egGQ

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.

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