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MadeInDex (madeindex@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 00:39:52 JST MadeInDex

@henry :owi: Hoping #Monsanto #Bayer goes bankrupt!

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  MadeInDex (madeindex@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 19:17:51 JST MadeInDex
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  👍 Let's pray for 418 billion euro losses in the fourth quarter 🤝
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  Melroy van den Berg (melroy@mastodon.melroy.org)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 19:17:52 JST Melroy van den Berg
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  @madeindex @henry me too! They killed a lot of people in the past (know your history) and they are still killing a lot of people with their agricultural/flower cultivation poison. And people lobbied very hard to get Glyphosate approved, the EU it's approved again for the upcoming 10 years. And we all know it's really bad for everybody's health.
  
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  MadeInDex (madeindex@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 00:59:49 JST MadeInDex
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  Impressive! I recently had a chat with a #phytotechnology student trying to explain why the dangers of #GMO are overstated and that we will not have enough food without widespread use. Seems like that is what some professors are teaching 😮
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  hyakinthos (hyakinthos@layer8.space)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 00:59:51 JST hyakinthos
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  Also good to know your adversaries. I #boycott all #GMA members (that’s the food lobby that ensured #GMO labelling fails in the US).
  https://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/05/18/great-boycott-monsanto-and-gma
  It’s depressing how big the list of food brands is -- but it’s managable despite being all the brands you are likely familiar with. I have been boycotting all of them for over a decade so it can be done.
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  MadeInDex (madeindex@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:40:36 JST MadeInDex
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  #Bayer #Monsanto is definitely among the worst corporations! They are bullying #farmers around the world, even in the US 👹
  There are many alternative solutions to GMO for the #food issues:
  - vegetarianism / #Veganism
  - #Verticalfarming
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_farming
  - natural, higher-yield methods such as #permaculture
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture
  - ocean #farming e.g. seaweed
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaweed_farming
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    Vertical farming
    
    Vertical farming is the practice of growing crops in vertically and horizontally stacked layers. It often incorporates controlled-environment agriculture, which aims to optimize plant growth, and soilless farming techniques such as hydroponics, aquaponics, and aeroponics. Some common choices of structures to house vertical farming systems include buildings, shipping containers, underground tunnels, and abandoned mine shafts. The modern concept of vertical farming was proposed in 1999 by Dickson Despommier, professor of Public and Environmental Health at Columbia University. Despommier and his students came up with a design of a skyscraper farm that could feed 50,000 people. Although the design has not yet been built, it successfully popularized the idea of vertical farming. Current applications of vertical farmings coupled with other state-of-the-art technologies, such as specialized LED lights, have resulted in over 10 times the crop yield than would receive through traditional farming methods. There have been several different means of implementing vertical farming systems into communities such as: Paignton, Israel, Singapore, Chicago...
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    Permaculture
    
    Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems. It includes a set of design principles derived using whole-systems thinking. It applies these principles in fields such as regenerative agriculture, town planning, rewilding, and community resilience. The term was coined in 1978 by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, who formulated the concept in opposition to modern industrialized methods, instead adopting a more traditional or "natural" approach to agriculture. Permaculture has been criticised as being poorly defined and unscientific. Critics have pushed for less reliance on anecdote and extrapolation from ecological first principles, in favor of peer-reviewed research to substantiate productivity claims and to clarify methodology. Peter Harper from the Centre for Alternative Technology suggests that most of what passes for permaculture has no relevance to real problems. Defenders of permaculture reply that researchers have concluded it to be a “sustainable alternative to conventional agriculture,” that it “strongly” enhances carbon stocks, soil quality...
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    Seaweed farming
    
    Seaweed farming or kelp farming is the practice of cultivating and harvesting seaweed. In its simplest form farmers gather from natural beds, while at the other extreme farmers fully control the crop's life cycle. The seven most cultivated taxa are Eucheuma spp., Kappaphycus alvarezii, Gracilaria spp., Saccharina japonica, Undaria pinnatifida, Pyropia spp., and Sargassum fusiforme. Eucheuma and K. alvarezii are attractive for carrageenan (a gelling agent); Gracilaria is farmed for agar; the rest are eaten after limited processing. Seaweeds are different from mangroves and seagrasses, as they are photosynthetic algal organisms and are non-flowering. The largest seaweed-producing countries as of 2022 are China (58.62%) and Indonesia (28.6%); followed by South Korea (5.09%) and the Philippines (4.19%). Other notable producers include North Korea (1.6%), Japan (1.15%), Malaysia (0.53%), Zanzibar (Tanzania, 0.5%), and Chile (0.3%). Seaweed farming has frequently been developed to improve economic conditions and to reduce fishing pressure. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO...
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  hyakinthos (hyakinthos@layer8.space)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:40:37 JST hyakinthos
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  @madeindex It sounds convincing that the world population would need GMO to get the scale needed.
  The problem with Monsanto is they are trying to take control of the world’s food supply. They want to monopolize so the that whole world needs Monsanto for survival. I’m not sure on the details of Monsanto’s bullying but I heard many Indian farmers committed suicide over it.
  
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  hyakinthos (hyakinthos@layer8.space)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 01:40:38 JST hyakinthos
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  @madeindex @melroy The problem is that many different GM techniques are described as “GMO”, but they are not equal. Some techiques are quite risky and some are about as safe as simple cross-breeding that happens in nature.
  Europe invests in GMO research (there is a misconception that Europe has banned GMO when really it’s just some regions).
  So I would not fear GMO as a whole w.r.t safety. But all GMO’d US-sourced food involves Monsanto. Boycotting US-based GMO is a way to boycott Monsanto.
  
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  MadeInDex (madeindex@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 02:41:46 JST MadeInDex
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  A #vegetarian / #vegan diet requires significantly less land and resources to produce the necessary nutritional value for a human :)
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  Priceless Planet (prpl@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 02:41:47 JST Priceless Planet
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  @madeindex @hyakinthos hi, how would vegetarianism / veganism help?
  Or you mean choosing organic and non GMO ?
  
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  MadeInDex (madeindex@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 00:12:37 JST MadeInDex
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  Seems more likely than malnutrition, a friend of mine ate only #spaghetti for a month and was perfectly healthy, & some others on veeeery simple/bad vegan diets didn't have any issues either 🤷
  
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  Melroy van den Berg (melroy@mastodon.melroy.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 00:12:41 JST Melroy van den Berg
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  @hyakinthos @madeindex @PrPl Could have been mercury poisoning by eating a lot of fish (especially tuna & mackerel).
  Of course it could have been anything..
  
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  hyakinthos (hyakinthos@layer8.space)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 00:12:42 JST hyakinthos
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  Indeed. Someone in my family was on a pescetarian diet (vegan+fish) and was hospitalized for malnutrition. I was surprised because I would have expected the fish exception to mitigate most risks. I don’t know what he did wrong but I guess omega-3 would not have been the issue (he loved sushi).
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  Melroy van den Berg (melroy@mastodon.melroy.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 00:12:45 JST Melroy van den Berg
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  @madeindex @PrPl @hyakinthos Just be sure when you are on a strict vegetarian / vegan diet be very sure to get the right amount of: Vitamin B12, Iron, Omega-3 fatty acids, protein, calcium and vitamin D and Zinc.
  
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