Patriotism that loves our country, our land, and our planet
If you’ve been following the issue here at RGB, you’re aware of the fact that the US Department of Agriculture is full of former Monsanto employees and assorted hangers-on who have been doing their best to make it easy for their former (and likely future) employer’s genetically modified (GMO) crops to get approval. But this latest development blows the doors off what has happened so far.
It’s madness. But even as Japan’s Prime Minister says that after Fukushima, it’s time to prepare for a society that does not rely on nuclear power – his strongest statement yet about ending Japan’s nuclear program – it’s full speed ahead in the US Senate. The Senate Energy Committee is set to vote tomorrow on three bills that [...]
A national coalition of recreational anglers is concerned that misinformation by state officials has led many anglers to believe that new marine protected areas off Southern California have already gone into effect when they have not. The fishing groups also note that litigation challenging the legitimacy of these closures, implemented under a privately funded process [...]
From the lips of Japan’s Prime Minister: It will take decades to clean up the meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Meanwhile, our worst fears are being realized as reports come in of radioactive cesium contaminating beef raised downwind of the plant.
As recently as June, Jerry Meral, who has been given charge by the Brown Administration to lead the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, assured public participants that all processes underway through the BDCP were “open and transparent.” Not so much…
Today, to be patriotic, I bought my wife some red, white and blue carnations. I asked the clerk who was trimming and wrapping the flowers where they came from, and he said, “Columbia.” I would rather have purchased them from a domestic grower, but I couldn’t…. And it’s hard to find domestic fruits and vegetables, too. What happened?
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