Crops, Ponds Destroyed in Quest for Food Safety
July 13th, 2009HAHA. If these fascists knew what we were growing our garlic in this season, their heads would explode. F*&%$#@ idiots.
Via: San Francisco Chronicle:
Dick Peixoto planted hedges of fennel and flowering cilantro around his organic vegetable fields in the Pajaro Valley near Watsonville to harbor beneficial insects, an alternative to pesticides.
He has since ripped out such plants in the name of food safety, because his big customers demand sterile buffers around his crops. No vegetation. No water. No wildlife of any kind.
“I was driving by a field where a squirrel fed off the end of the field, and so 30 feet in we had to destroy the crop,” he said. “On one field where a deer walked through, didn’t eat anything, just walked through and you could see the tracks, we had to take out 30 feet on each side of the tracks and annihilate the crop.”
In the verdant farmland surrounding Monterey Bay, a national marine sanctuary and one of the world’s biological jewels, scorched-earth strategies are being imposed on hundreds of thousands of acres in the quest for an antiseptic field of greens. And the scheme is about to go national.
Related: Japanese Vegetable Factories
Research Credit: ottilie
fascist?
mmm, probably.
several cents short of a euro?
holy shit, you couldn’t dream up a science fiction nightmare as bad as this if you tried…doomsday, i think they used to call it
send them a copy of the humanure handbook and maybe all their heads will explode in unison? we can only hope!
WTF… come on, this is a report by the onion…
Tomorrow i will visit our organization for organic food here in Switzerland and challenge them what they will do if this shit arrives here.
And if they don’t react, some of tomorrow morning will stick in their heads… and will be reactivated when our phood-nightmare begins.
I feel so helpless… 🙁
The best part is that this farm shown in the photos is an organic farm – it’s not even standard lettuce production.