Warren Chamberlain, who chairs the irrigation district west of Ontario, thinks the birds will bring bentgrass to him. The day after our lunch in Nyssa, Erstrom and I visit Chamberlain’s dairy farm near the two-stop-sign community of Willowcreek. “We’re going to be stuck fighting this for the rest of our lives,” he laments. “All so somebody could have green grass on a golf course.”

Joseph P. Farrell – That quotation sums up the whole GMO conundrum in this country in a nutshell, and it also sums up the regulatory agencies’ own complicity in a growing problem, one that could indeed become a crisis. It also sums up the “we could care less” attitude of the big GMO agribusiness giants, like Mon(ster)santo, now recently merged with Germany’s big chemical conglomerate Bayer, to form what I’ve called I.G. Farbensanto.

This article, shared by Ms. K.M., is pure gold, in terms of its summary of the problems that GMOs pose to farmers who simply do not want the stuff, and are trying to sell their products to countries with strict GMO controls, for their crops are being contaminated, in this case, by a special genetically engineered grass – common grass – that is Roundup resistant. The grass was designed to be sold to golf courses, but, predictably, got out of its test fields and is now creeping and crawling its way throughout western Idaho and eastern Oregon, and there’s no stopping it. Here’s the article: Continue reading →