There is a real problem in the agribusiness sector of Wall Street. It is getting to be impossible to preserve Earth's natural balance. The best example of that is "Syngenta."
To begin Syngenta does the same thing as Monsanto. They create genetic products for crops. Syngenta has a global reach. It is not the size of Monsanto, but, it is a Swiss company and it's practices are different. Currently, China is attempting to purchase the company.
But, the most egregious problem with Syngenta is with bees. You know the disappearing species of extremely needed pollinators. The Syngenta product, neonicotinoid, is regulated in Europe and has been eliminated from the market place because REGULATION has proven it's use kills bees. There is a lawsuit in Europe by Syngenta in order to maintain it's market share regardless of the death of bees. If Syngenta cannot turn a deadly poison into a viable product the value of the company is diminished when take over talks take place.
The USA EPA has not eliminated neonicotinoid pesticide from the market, but, there are specific limits set to its residue tolerated on crops to protect pollinators.
September 5, 2015
Seed and crop management company (click here) Syngenta Crop Protection LLC has petitioned U.S. EPA to increase the legal tolerance for a neonicotinoid pesticide residue in several crops -- in one case increasing the acceptable level by 400 times, according to a notice in today's Federal Register.
Syngenta, one of the biggest manufacturers of pesticides, wants to increase the allowable threshold for residues of thiamethoxam, a pesticide that has been linked to the decline of honeybees and other pollinators over the past several decades.
The petition would apply to alfalfa, barley, corn and wheat, both the crop itself and the straw and stover left over after cultivation. Syngenta is seeking to increase the levels from as low as 1.5 times for stover from sweet corn to as much as 400 times for hay from wheat....
Today, pollinators are protected from a toxin that kills them, but, if the TPP takes over there will be a new platform to change all that. The USA will have to lower it's standards to allow a 'partnership standard' to exist. That means the USA will have to hire illegal aliens to manually pollinate it's crops. That should be real interesting, because, if USA farmers have to resort to hand pollination, as China has, of their crops there won't be anymore corporate structure due to far higher production costs.
...In 2007, (click here) 408 million acres of agricultural land were in cropland (down 17 percent from 1949), 614 million acres were in pasture and range (down 3 percent), 127 million acres were in grazed forestland (down 52 percent), and 12 million acres were in farmsteads and farm roads (down 19 percent)....
So, there is a way of getting rid of Monsanto and it is greed.
To begin Syngenta does the same thing as Monsanto. They create genetic products for crops. Syngenta has a global reach. It is not the size of Monsanto, but, it is a Swiss company and it's practices are different. Currently, China is attempting to purchase the company.
But, the most egregious problem with Syngenta is with bees. You know the disappearing species of extremely needed pollinators. The Syngenta product, neonicotinoid, is regulated in Europe and has been eliminated from the market place because REGULATION has proven it's use kills bees. There is a lawsuit in Europe by Syngenta in order to maintain it's market share regardless of the death of bees. If Syngenta cannot turn a deadly poison into a viable product the value of the company is diminished when take over talks take place.
The USA EPA has not eliminated neonicotinoid pesticide from the market, but, there are specific limits set to its residue tolerated on crops to protect pollinators.
September 5, 2015
Seed and crop management company (click here) Syngenta Crop Protection LLC has petitioned U.S. EPA to increase the legal tolerance for a neonicotinoid pesticide residue in several crops -- in one case increasing the acceptable level by 400 times, according to a notice in today's Federal Register.
Syngenta, one of the biggest manufacturers of pesticides, wants to increase the allowable threshold for residues of thiamethoxam, a pesticide that has been linked to the decline of honeybees and other pollinators over the past several decades.
The petition would apply to alfalfa, barley, corn and wheat, both the crop itself and the straw and stover left over after cultivation. Syngenta is seeking to increase the levels from as low as 1.5 times for stover from sweet corn to as much as 400 times for hay from wheat....
Today, pollinators are protected from a toxin that kills them, but, if the TPP takes over there will be a new platform to change all that. The USA will have to lower it's standards to allow a 'partnership standard' to exist. That means the USA will have to hire illegal aliens to manually pollinate it's crops. That should be real interesting, because, if USA farmers have to resort to hand pollination, as China has, of their crops there won't be anymore corporate structure due to far higher production costs.
...In 2007, (click here) 408 million acres of agricultural land were in cropland (down 17 percent from 1949), 614 million acres were in pasture and range (down 3 percent), 127 million acres were in grazed forestland (down 52 percent), and 12 million acres were in farmsteads and farm roads (down 19 percent)....
So, there is a way of getting rid of Monsanto and it is greed.
