Well, lookey thar. I was waiting for something to crop up about the Monarch butterfly. There has been a lot of hate speech about this poor little butterfly within recent months. I plant Milkweed for the purpose of supporting this species of butterfly and I am not going to stop planting Milkweed because the Democratic Party has to be more "Wall Street Friendly."

July 17, 2015 
By Gloria Dickie

300 million pounds of glyphosate are used in the U.S. each year, but its impacts are largely unknown.  (click here) 

For more than a decade, milkweed, that tall green plant with purple or orange flowers, has been rapidly declining in Midwestern states. Little research has been done on the abundance of milkweed in Western states, though many scientists suspect it may be struggling as well. That’s because Western monarch butterflies, which depend on milkweed for food and habitat, have declined by nearly 90 percent in the past two decades. Both of these troubling trends — the decline of milkweed in the Midwest and of monarch butterflies —  have coincided with a rise in agricultural use of the herbicide glyphosate. 

While the impact glyphosate has on milkweed and monarchs is well-known, the damage it does to other plants and animals is largely a mystery. Now, the EPA has announced it will spend the next five years studying the effects of glyphosate (more commonly referred to by its trade name, Roundup), atrazine, and two other commonly used pesticides on 1,500 endangered species....

This is a big one, folks. 

It is spelled M-O-N-S-A-N-T-O.

I doubt it measures up to a Papal declaration of love of the natural world.

Ah, yes, superior control of every pest in life.