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Paul Cherubini <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:29:01 -0800
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Maybe it's time for Monsanto, Dupont & John Deere to start
working on a documentary film that shows uncensored footage
of what's really happening with pollinators and other wildlife
in the GMO crop monocultures of the USA.
 
Maybe it's time they show the public that industrialized ag
landscapes like these in the upper Midwest:
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/trud.jpg
are actually teaming with nectar feeding insects and pollinators:
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/true.jpg
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/syr3.jpg
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/dybeea.jpg

The flowering weeds surrounding GMO crops set lots of
seed: http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/pods.jpg
which is further evidence that native pollinators are abundant.

Dragonflies are abundant as well:
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/drag.jpg

In fact, just keeping your car windshield clean of flying insects
in the GMO crop growing regions is a challenege:
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/windshield.jpg
 
Other wildlife that can be found around GMO crops
include Frogs:
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/frogb.jpg
In the photo above frogs were so abundant I estimated
the density to be one frog per two square yards of
GMO crop margin.

There are Snakes as well:
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/snake.jpg
 
Racoons:
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/racoon.jpg

Birds:
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/birds.jpg

And much more. Sometimes the margins of GMO crops
are State designated game refuge habitats:
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/game.jpg

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.

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