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March 25, 2015 - I recall, back in the early 1970's, the constant stream of news stories telling Americans that virtually every new product recently developed contained something that caused cancer.  Honestly, it was hard to know what to do with the information.  I think because there were so many stories - several a week, it seemed like - there was also a lot of skepticism.  All these years later, I will confess we should have demanded that the products be pulled from the shelves.  We didn't, and now we pay the price with our own lives, and the lives of our children and grandchildren. I volunteer at the elementary school's library.  The librarian, incredibly competent and caring, is also the mother of two daughters.  Her younger child has had to be treated twice for leukemia.  The second go-round was caused by the first; yes, that's what I'm saying - the chemotherapy caused her to contract leukemia for a second time.  In all likelihood, chemica...

March 4, 2014 – It’s March, everybody!   Spring cannot be too far away.   The birds are singing up a storm, and though we’ve just gotten a fresh coat of snow on the ground, temperatures will be in the 40’s later this week.   Thank heaven, the sun is shining very brightly. You will be unsurprised to learn that Monsanto continues its march toward world domination.   Are you as baffled as I am that they do so with Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack’s complicity?   Is EVERYBODY on their payroll?   What does Vilsack stand to gain by helping Monsanto, et. al. to own the world’s food sources?   Can this truly be some form of horribly dysfunctional patriotism?? In 2011, Vilsack convened an industry-controlled panel of stakeholders (known as AC21) in the ongoing confrontation between biotech companies and organic farmers.   He ostensibly was seeking a fair solution to the problem of transgenic contamination.   After he and his corp...