Kitchen Garden Forum

The economic value of nature, its free and therefore we have not valued it as we should, but loss of diversity has an economic cost.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11588020
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/richardblack/

Bees are worth £200m a year to our economy, and we are losing then twice as fast as other countries. Intensive farming and monoculture is not helping, city and urban bees have a more varied diet and better immune systems than rural bees have

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10998318

"India and Brazil head move to 'green' economic future"..... and are also among the major growers of GM crops

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneticall ... g_GM_crops

Interesting article, esp in the US regarding the legal slant. The toxic effects of roundup concern me as the roundup mix gives more problems than the glyphospate without the surfactant, and it is retained for longer, some rivers next to GM crops in US polluted now

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_%2 ... Toxicity_2

Considering its toxicity at low levels to human tissue, the following gives cause for concern -

http://www.independent.co.uk/environmen ... 91300.html

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-changing- ... d=10679059