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We just lost the constitutinal right to take Monsanto to court if their GMO crops sicken or kill us. Any comment?
Is this still America when the government grants freedom from responsibility for creating dangerous or deadly products to giant corporations? How can we protect ourselves when our bees are dying because of Round-up and Monsanto can easily get laws passed that free it from any responsibility for its products and the damage they cause, like killing all the bees?
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I am glad a lot of people are well informed about GMOs, the death of bees and the battle for our right to know what's in our food.
Not long ago we didn't have to spend hours reading labels. Peanut butter was defined as peanuts and salt. maybe with sugar. Now hundreds of untested chemicals are added to food. We should not be forced to read labels to protect ourselves.
When companies don't have to disclose GMOs in our food we've lost the right to defend ourselves and our families. Anyone who is in favor of gun rights should be in favor of the right to know what's in our food and to not eat anything they find objectionable or even questionable. Shouldn't they?
Mr. Colera argues that GMOs aren't "conclusively proven" to be bad. I'm sorry, but corporations should not have all the rights. People deserve to have safe, unadulterated food and corporations should have to prove what they are adding to food is "conclusively safe" not the other way around.
They're adding "new" foods, they're profiting from GMOs, let them prove they're "conclusively safe" before they can sell them.
That's the logical, sensible, fair way to protect the public from "new" things.
People should not accept any industry assurance that something unproven to be safe should be allowed in food.
Why isn't this a major election issue? It should be.
Jun 8 2013: Hello, and thanks for commenting.
Today Monsanto got a lot of America farmers punched in the nose. Japan banned American wheat because it's contaminated with GMO grain. Let's hope that bloody nose shakes other farmers awake. Isn't it encouraging to watch other governments protect their citizens?
GMOs are also banned in most European countries.
They aren't banning American wheat for fun. They have to get wheat somewhere else and pay more for it. There's no reason to think they're all stupid.
No engineered foods have been proven to be safe.
This is a great chance to change our own government, pushing it back to positions and laws that protected consumers from adulterated foods. The great thing about big government was we had unannounced inspections to insure the weight in packages wasn't short and that gas pumps were properly calibrated so buyers got what they paid for. And only natural ingredients were in prepared foods.
Don't be discouraged. We can take this country back for the people living here. It hasn't been long since we had honor and fairness in business. Actually, we still have millions of honest businesses and good politicians.
We can drop politicians who vote to favor business over people. We can retake control of local school boards, town councils and legislatures, and elect people based on their brains and social consciences, not their position on gay marriage.
Countries that ban GMOs are exercising reasonable caution and that's the right of all of us. If we don't know what's in our food, we can't make informed decisions. That's not right. And it's not American.
Mike Colera
Jun 13 2013: OK, My comment.
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We haven't lost any constitution rights.
No evidence has been presented that conclusively proves GMO food stuffs are harmful.
Hearsay is not conclusive evidence. Foreign agriculture policies are not conclusive evidence.
Strong beliefs are not conclusive evidence. A coroner's report of death by GMO foodstuff would be a good starting point.
Most losses in bee colonies are from a virulent virus that effects bees. Agribusiness needing bee pollination of their crops often contract for hives to come in and suspend all spraying as not to effect bee.colonies.
Jun 14 2013: No scientific evidence? "The World According To Monsanto", read it and weep.Jun 11 2013: Major tort lawyers are brave, thoughtful people who PAY the costs of litigation and spend years, up to a decade, fighting for clients against businesses that knowingly sell products that hurt or even kill people.
They don't bother suing small businesses. They go after companies that can and should pay.
They are scorned by pro-business zealots armed with vast war chests.
They face armies of corporate lawyers on big salaries who don't pay litigation costs.
But let's not pull punches.
Under English common law, the basis of American law, if you knowingly selling a product that injures someone you must pay. Think snake oil salesmen. Selling poisonous pills was a crime, but congress has granted immunity from liability to drug companies if the FDA let them sell a product. This is true even if it wasn't tested, like hip implants, and even if it's proven (by tort lawyers, no doubt) to be poisonous, and even if the maker knew it was deadly poison, but lied to get FDA approval.
We don't prosecute CEOs in America now, so the only things between us and death are tort lawyers. .
Selling poisonous pills used to be attempted murder. And if the patient died from poisonous medicine that was first degree murder. It's killing for profit, like poisoning your husband for his insurance.
Read about murder and mayhem in an old criminal law book and you'll see what I mean.
We need an NRA type lobby against the unconstitutional business exemption from responsibility for crimes.
Jun 12 2013: Wait! I thought we all HATED major Tort lawyers!
http://reason.com/archives/2010/07/08/parasitic-tort-lawyersJun 10 2013: Rights are taken away until someone rallies the troops to fire back. It is almost that time that T Jefferson spoke of, and to take back our country from the religious right wing supporters of corporational rights verses individual rights. The corporations have had their way for too long. On the other side, before bees, mosquitoes did most of the pollinating .
Jun 11 2013: Hello, timothy
Mosquitos? who knew? Where I live, there are thousands of native bees and bumble bees. The natives live singly underground and they fly like bullets, just whiz past your head. An open area like a lawn will have hundreds of them buzzing around your ankles before they zip off past your ear. No honey, though. But they don't have stingers, so no fear.
Jun 11 2013: I am of course referring to north america. Before white settlers brought hives, there were no bees, but pollination still took place.
Jun 13 2013: There were many bees living in North America before white settlers, What the Europeans brought was the honey bee.Jun 12 2013: REALLY! Who knew!
Barry Palmer
Jun 8 2013: The USA that I knew as a child and young adult died at least a decade ago.
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Corporations now have many ways to avoid liability for their actions. Using their money to corrupt the government is just one of them, and it is very powerful. We now live in a plutocracy, not much different from Russia.
In this talk, http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_the_republic_we_must_reclaim.html
Lawrence Lessig says that campaign finance reform is "the first issue, the issue we have to solve before we get to fix the issues you care about."
He is right. If you want to change ANYTHING in the USA, work on changing campaign financing, first.
Jun 8 2013: Look around you at how grossly overweight most Americans are. Do you think it's just because we're slothful and gluttonous? That we've changed that much in only a generation?
It may be because we've given the food industry free reign to use chemically adulterated foods in almost all meals, cake mixes, crackers and cookies, cakes, frozen dinners. Go check the labels in the market. You'll be amazed to see that chemically altered hydrogenated oil, a totally unnatural ingredient, is in almost everything. And so is chemically altered high fructose corn syrup.
Most Americans had no idea our food supply was being adulterated, and we still don't know if those ingredients are safe to eat. They have never been tested except through subjecting the public to them in food.
The things we feed our kids as treats, like ice cream bars, aren't just fattening, they have chemicals that we know nothing about.
Don't try to undermine my position or impune my intelligence or education by asking if it's the idea of GMOs. Why are you in favor of adding genes to food without knowing if they are safe? Is it fascination with the idea of creating something, or the idea that business is always right?
Businesses have a history of pushing the envelope, selling Pintos knowing they explode and the passengers burn to death because Ford executives wanted to make a few cents or dollars more and it was cheaper to pay death claims than move the gas tank to protect their customers. A lot of people burned to death.
Maybe GMOs will give a lot of people cancer. We don't know.
Why screw around with the health of a nation so Monsanto can make a profit? It's incredibly short-sighted. We don't need their products. so maybe we should join the world and just say no.
Breeding is not the same as genetic engineering, as I am sure you well know. We've made turkeys that could never survive if we didn't feed them, but they're still turkeys. Better we should breed better corn than add fish genes to it.
Barry Palmer
Jun 8 2013: "Why are you in favor of adding genes to food without knowing if they are safe? "
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I am not in favor of adding genes to food.
Jun 8 2013: Please forgive me. I mistakenly sent my reply to a comment to you instead of the person who made that comment. Of course you're not in favor of adding genes to food. I liked you comment. Very nice to get a positive one.Jun 14 2013: How can we protect ourselves? Boycott. Boycott anything with corn or a corn derivative. About the only thing you can't avoid is ethanol.
It takes very little self training to pick up a package and, following Mike Pollan's advice, if your granny wouldn't recognize it, put it back on the shelf.Jun 14 2013: You are wrong on all accounts sir read more. Neoniconoids are in GMO's it is part of the round-up ready formula. Even if it was just a pesticide it is a pesticide that is used in conjunction with the GM Seed/plant. The pesticides and gmos were banned in most of the eu and the honey bees numbers have increased.
Your sensationalist comment comes close to being a troll for the corporations themselves.
There is nothing sensationalist about Margaret miller writing a report on rBGH while working for Monsanto saying it was safe and then passing the report through the FDA after she tool a position there.
Clarence Thomas sides with Monsanto on every issue that hits the Supreme Court
Farmers assurance provision disallows us to take the plants that are growing right now out of production when they are proven to be unsafe for human consumption.
Look up the farmers that have lost their land due to cross pollination of GM crops into their fields
WAKE UP!Jun 13 2013: found these...
pretty much says it all.Jun 13 2013: https://www.change.org/petitions/president-barack-obama-repeal-the-monsanto-protection-act-immediatelyJun 13 2013: Nobody can lose the right to take anybody to court. The only caveat is that you have to have evidence for your claims. Actual evidence, not the misinformation perpetrated by the anti-GMO crowds.
Should you have evidence that Monsanto's GMOs are sickening and killing people, then you would have a case no matter what or how other cases could have gone.
Of course there's caveats. For example, if you have an allergy, then you can't blame Monsanto for your immune system anymore than you could blame those who cultivate peanuts for the allergies some suffer against peanuts. Et cetera.
In summary, you have to have evidence and have a reasonable case.
Jun 13 2013: We have effectively lost our right to stop the production of GM plants if they are proven harmful to human health or the environment. We have also lost our right to have products that contain GM ingredients labeled on a state by state level, at the moment the labeling must pass on a federal level.
The corporations have infiltrated our governmental system. They lobby our congressmen/women and senators, they sit on our regulatory boards and on our supreme courthouse. We have effectively lost control as The People
Jun 13 2013: Sorry Cody, but you are awfully wrong and awfully misinformed about science and about law.
Jun 13 2013: Entropy what exactly am I wrong or misinformed about? These topics are things I have followed for about 10 years now, have read medical and scientific journals on and have had accredited lawyers read me through bills when I do not understand the wording.
So please in the greatest detail possible please tell me what me and my fellow activists, scientists, doctors and lawyers are so terribly wrong about.Jun 13 2013: Or maybe try informing your self and read up on the issues
Google search
France + Monsanto + chemical poisoning + law suit
Farmers assurance provision
Margaret miller + USDA + Monsanto
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas + Monsanto + lawyer
Monsanto + bees + neoniconoidsJun 14 2013: The France thing has nothing to do with GMOs, but with pesticides. I would think that your "fellow activists, scientists, doctors and lawyers" would understand the difference between a GMO and a pesticide.
The Farmers assurance provision seems to be a protection against sensationalist such as those who can't tell GMOs from pesticides.
For Margaret miller + USDA + Monsanto I only found sensationalist press. So I can't make an opinion about it.
The supreme court thing does not disallow anybody from suing if the GMOs were demonstrated to be as dangerous as you claim them to be.
Neoniconoids are not GMOs either. They're pesticides.
Yes, you're awfully misinformed.
Jun 13 2013: Are tobacco farmers murderers? Monsanto makes products, people buy them.
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Jun 13 2013: Cigarettes have warning labels, GMOs do not. Yet they both cause cancer. A CEO of Monsanto was quoted saying "Putting a label on products that have GMO's in them, would be like putting a skull and cross bones on it!
Jun 13 2013: There is no evidence that GMO's cause cancer. However their is evidence that cigarettes do. I'm sure the CEO did not mean that literally, more that the media has given people a bad impression of GMO's meaning Its not going to sell if they use 'GMO' in their branding.
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Jun 13 2013: If there is none, which is impossible to state, as a) you have a corrupted fda process, b) you dont know the long term implications.
And why oh why was so much, and I mean so much effort put in to making sure the prop in California not get passed?
Wasn't done for their (Monsanto's) health, now was it.Jun 13 2013: Mr T here is an article about a little county called France that is in the process of during Monsanto for chemical poisoning. They have proven that GMO's cause cancer. There are also many reports done by very accredited US scientist that prove the same thing. These are not reported on and ignored by our regulatory system because it has been infiltrated by the corporations and industries that seek to control it.
WAKE UP!!!! Don't stop to smell the roses they may kill you!Jun 12 2013: Spring, I think you have misdirected your anger at Monsanto ... they can not change or amend laws ... there must exist a receptive person in office that will do their bidding. You are mad at political corruption. Find out who is on the take, prove it, and expose him / her.
Jun 13 2013: I don't think it is misdirected at all, Monsanto has systematically infiltrated our governmental system and is using its minions to help pass bills into law that will help them no be held accountable for their actions. If you don't believe me google these names
Dr. Margret Miller + monsanto + FDA
Michael R. Taylor + lawyer + monsanto + FDA + USDA
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas + Monsanto + lawyer
Jun 13 2013: Thank you I think you have proven my point.
Jun 13 2013: You are obviously not aware of whats commonly know as the "revolving door policy".Jun 12 2013: I'm not sure which side of the debate you are on with those articles supporting more biotechnology. The problem we have is more of the same. A new GMO plant/seed that is resistant to the new superbug or weed. Eventually the bug/weed will win again and become resistant, this is proven to happen again and again... it's kind of controversial thing called evolution!
The thing that seems to work is called biodiversity. Which is the opposite of a monoculture food system that we have set in place. Many people give the argument of how will you feed the world how can you feed the poor with such a laborious system. Yet we do not feed the poor now nor do we feed the world with the copious amounts of calories we produce with the subsidized system we have in place. Most third world starving countries don't even want our GM seed. This is because they know its a trick and it doesn't do anything but put them in debt.
Our GM seed and products cause cancer, leaky gut syndrome and neuron problems to name a few. They cross pollinate with native plants which leads to extinction since GMO seeds cannot be saved to replant.
Harmonizing with our planet again is how we feed ourselves. Most families can live off of less than1/8th of an acre of land if done properly. Not to mention the ease of use of a hydroponic system or better yet aquaponic or areoponic systems. Vertical farms are on the rise (pun intended) in cities across the countries and small scale sustainable organic farms are doing the best they can, but it is not enough to help heal the world we have so horribly maimed.
The resource draining large scale monoculture and feedlot systems have to go or adapt to a better more sustainable system. We need to revitalize our once beautiful farming communities and breath life into our Main Streets. Let the big banks fail, corporate greed die and The American Dream be re-imagined. Homesteading and Off-Grid living will create new frontiers as people try to get away from poverty and anguish!Jun 12 2013: I'll start with the "monsanto protection act" actually known as The Farmers Assurance Provision Section (Mike this is what you are looking for if you want to google it and read the jargon.
Here is what bernie sanders says about the rider
"Essentially, what that Monsanto Protection Act rider said is that even if a court were to determine that a particular product might be harmful to human beings or harmful to the environment, the Department of Agriculture could not stop the production of that product once it is in the ground. So you have deregulated the GMO industry from court oversight, which is really not what America is about." - Bernie Sanders
This helps the big three chemical companies hold the noose around Americas food system. Monsanto, Syngenta and DOW
So Monsanto brought us DDT, Agent Orange, Round-up, Round-up Ready Seed (also known as GMO's) and a handful of other nasty chemicals that people have been putting on food and in the ground for the three quarters of a century. They have infiltrated our political, regulative and judicial systems to pass numerous laws that help the biotech industry thrive with little to no resistance. Increasing "safe levels" of chemicals aloud to be in and used on our food. They have even breached the organic market allowing for "organic chemical fertilizers" and wording on organic labeling such as "our farmers pledge to not persistently use growth hormones and antibiotics". Here are a few people that have been placed in power
Margaret Miller Ph.D - Dr. Miller was hired on to the Monsanto Agricultural Company in 1985 she put together a paper on rBGH - Bovine Growth Hormone. She was later hired into the FDA where she worked to approve the report she wrote!
(current) Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas - Ex defense attorney for a Monsanto law firm
Michael R Taylor - Has a long career bouncing back and forth from Monsanto to FDA and USDA (google him he's worth a read)
The Honey Bees
Google neonicotinoids + bees
Jun 12 2013: Yeah, it ain't fair. It ain't right. And we all need to work together to make a better world for ourselves!
Hey, anybody out there up for some REAL Science for a change? Check this out!
And this article has some cautionary information in it.
But I still think it is stupid to be stupid!Jun 12 2013: It's scary what can happen when people stop paying attention. I, however, am a firm believer that people will fight for this cause as soon as they wake up to how corrupt our food system is.
Jun 14 2013: People did not stop paying attention. Monsanto has gone to great lengths to hide this information from the public.Jun 12 2013: Hi Spring,
I still haven't found any confirming sources about your statement concerning legal options with Monsanto?
Can you lead me in that direction?
By the way, Isabel
Monsanto can't take all the credit for DDT. However, millions of Africans do not have malaria because of DDT.
It's one of those "lessor of two evil things"....
And that Agent Orange thing.... I am getting some superior medical care from my exposure including for medical issues that they are not sure about... I am being helped by that "don't know, but treat just in case" attitudes...
Jun 13 2013: I'll start with the "monsanto protection act" actually known as The Farmers Assurance Provision Section (Mike this is what you are looking for if you want to google it and read the jargon.
Here is what bernie sanders says about the rider
"Essentially, what that Monsanto Protection Act rider said is that even if a court were to determine that a particular product might be harmful to human beings or harmful to the environment, the Department of Agriculture could not stop the production of that product once it is in the ground. So you have deregulated the GMO industry from court oversight, which is really not what America is about." - Bernie Sanders
Monsanto has systematically infiltrated our governmental system and is using its minions to help pass bills into law that will help them no be held accountable for their actions. If you don't believe me google these names
Dr. Margret Miller + monsanto + FDA
Michael R. Taylor + lawyer + monsanto + FDA + USDA
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas + Monsanto + lawyer
You are one of few that are getting good services from our government for the treatment. If you were affected by Agent Orange they would know it does some nasty things to genetics. You should google some images of agent orange victims and descendants.
Jun 13 2013: If I understand the rider as noted, The USDA can not stop production of planted crops. OK.
But that doesn't address the title of this conversation. Monsanto is not free of legal liability.
You also pointed out that Monsanto has friends in high places, nothing surprising there.
What wasn't fully explained is why a major corporation expose itself to civil and criminal charges
by marketing a product that could cause illness or death as GMOs have been described here.
Further, I have yet to read that GMO foods have been proven harmful, except from opponents of GMO foods. USDA labs, FDA, nothing big from them. But the biggest testament that GMO foods are safe? There is no commercial on TV by some big tort law firm asking if you've been harmed by GMO,call us.
Jun 13 2013: So mike you don't think those friends in high places help hide the fact that GMO's are bad for human and environmental health? Why not try google some of those name and see what you come up with. Margret Miller helped pas a report that said rGBH was safe and wouldn't affect humans health. It is now close to being banned because of evidence that it is very unhealthy for us. Here is an article about a little country named France that is during Monsanto for chemical poisoning of its people. They have found not only found evidence but have proven that GMO's cause cancer.
Mike WAKE UP!! But don't smell the roses they might kill you!Jun 14 2013: Regarding, "There is no commercial on TV by some big tort law firm asking if you've been harmed by GMO,call us."
That is the reason they don't want GMO on the labels - quite literally, they don't want you or the CDC to know what you've been eating. They cannot distinguish cause if they're not allowed to track. That is the very point of their push for no GMO labels. The NH Senator Shaheen said 70% of all processed food contains GMO and at least 88% of corn is GMO. Corn processors say they use the same processing equipment for GMO and non-GMO, so they speculate at best the other 12% is contaminated.Jun 11 2013: Monsanto brought us DDT, that sickened & killed many and is still in the blood of every man, woman, & child in America. That was before the Vietnam war, then Monsanto brought us Agent Orange, and the world saw how that turned out, then they brought us roundup, one of the biggest cancer culprits in american history, then they own aspartame, a neurotoxin that should have never been introduced into the food supply, but then how would Dick Cheney & Donald Rumsfeld make money, starting the 2nd day Ronnie Reagan was in office. Amazing evil and now the GMO threat to humanity. The world says NO, and so Monsanto stuffs it down americans throats. 85% of the GMO in the world, consumed by americans, since no other country will allow it inside their borders. China burned 3 ships filled with the poison GMO. Japan, ditto, Peru, Hungary, France, etc....
Jun 12 2013: I don't think it is just "Monsanto" that stuffs things down our throats. In many respects we do more damage to ourselves stuffing McDonald's Big Mac's down our throats.
Or how about this: http://www.examiner.com/article/obesity-death-rate-is-overtaking-cigarette-smoking
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Jun 13 2013: McDonalds and most other forms of fast food have extremely high level of GMO products in them, thus is why they are so bad for your health. They have been proven to cause cancer, yet there is no warning label.
Jun 13 2013: GMO - Genetically Modified Organism? What kind of GMO stuff is in a McDonald's burger!Jun 13 2013: GMO wheat for the bun
GMO soy for filler in the burger
GMO feed that the cow ate to make the patty
GMO soy and canola oil used to fry the fries
GMO lettuces released last year
GMO tomato called the FlvrSvr was one of the first GM crops available
GMO high fructose corn syrup in your soda
Should I continue? please google all of this
The only GMO that McDonald's has fought is the potato and thats because it just started making an appearance this year and their is way to much public out cry for them to do it.
Jun 13 2013: Thanks for the info. Glad I'm not dead yet, but maybe I should worry? Also, I'm really glad that all this GMO stuff didn't change the taste of any McDonald's food.
But I guess the health/GMO issues are a much bigger deal.Jun 13 2013: Juan, Watch the documentary called "Food inc" and another by a french company, cant remember the title about Monsanto. That one covers all aspects of what Monsanto is doing. Try youtube. But be warned the details, eg the suicide rate of farmers in india, amongst other things, is frightening.Jun 9 2013: Tort lawyers are not heroes, especially on class action suits, I would change my mind if they had to pay court costs if they lost. Most corporations are not your straw man but small business' that are exploited by the tort lawyers. It has nothing to do with justice.
Do you have any proof that bees are being killed by round up?
On the other side of the Monsanto coin people like Norman Borlaug fed a lot of people that otherwise would have starved.
Jun 9 2013: Pat,
you've addressed some of my problems.
A good friend of mine moves his 200 hives from north to south and back. Now this is probably an unique situation, but I am sure there are things that bee keepers can do to protect their hives in troubled times.
Further, I can believe that if you spray bees with .... most anything, you'll not be doing them any good.
GMO? Man has been modifying flora and fauna since forever. Breeding, cross breeding, man has "created" all kinds of goodies for our tables. Now, I know doing changes at cellular levels is new and I also know that there are some who seem to fear change at a very deep level. Their warnings can be useful, we keep an eye out for strange things happening. What I find troubling is their fears seem to approach severe paranoia or what ever the correct diagnosis. I fear people who would maim and kill over their concerns for most anything except other people.
Jun 9 2013: Yes this a neurotic society. I look at just the beginning of the Matt Ridley and the Peter Diamandis as they indicate mans tendency toward the negative.Jun 11 2013: The difference between GMO and breeding new dogs is huge. Impossible to bridge.
GMO foods have genes from other animals or plants stuck into their chromosomes.
The genetically modified pesticides called neonicotinoids are derived from a poison in tobacco.
They are sprayed on crops to kill insects, which they do extremely well. They kill bees, butterflies and all sorts of other insects.
This chemical that is being sprayed on our food plants is so deadly it has been banned in most European countries.
Japan just banned the import of all GMO grains from the US. The Japanese are not kids hiding from monsters under their beds. They have more nuclear plants than anybody per capita, and look what not being afraid of the future got them there. Thousands of years of not being able to inhabit vast areas of their own country.
Read Bees and the European neonicotinoids pesticide ban - The Guardian, on Google to get the facts about GMOs from one well informed source.
Countries don't ban our cheap abundant grain for fun. They do it to protect their kids and their unborn babies from ill-conceived, harmful GMO products. It will cost them a huge amount to find alternatives to American grown grain.
It will also bankrupt a lot of American farmers, whether or not they grow GMO grain.
Mr. Gilbert is advocating progress no matter what the cost, an all too common mistake based upon the false notion that corporations won't poison their customers for an extra few cents profit per share. That position has been proven wrong over and over.
We can't afford to close this barn door after the horse if gone.
By the way, why should bee keepers have to move their hives to avoid newly created toxins that are being sprayed on our food?
Jun 11 2013: Superlatives, aren't they wonderful.
But. let's look a little closer. Yes, GMO functions get right to the heart of the matter. Before, breeders had to do many repetitive breeding seasons to get the desired results. Now, they get in it in one. Maybe two.
Another point is the agricultural economy. It is easier for other countries to ban GMO products for safety reasons then the fact that they are protecting their own agricultural interest. Read voters.
Watch and see how the dangers of GMO products will be found wanting about the time the International patents expire and there will be no premium to pay for seeds.
There have been companies that and mostly unintentionally caused illness and death through their products. An extremely distressing event. Examination of this situation would show that a company usually does this only once.
I can't speak for all beekeepers. My friend found that by moving his hives south every fall to warmer clime gave him an addition commercial production. He say it is a lot of hard work but a very profitable endeavor. He contracts with agribusiness's that needs bees for pollination. When his bees are in place there is no spraying.Jun 13 2013: It does not matter if the spraying stops or not, if they have been sprayed once the bees will still die. Also if it is a GMO crop the bees will still die. The neonicotinoids are embedded in the genes of the GM plant. All Bee keepers across the country are pushing for GMOs to be banned just like in the EU, where after the the ban the bee populations have improved and started to flourish again.
The reason that countries are banning GMOs is because they want to keep their independence and not become slaves to the BigAg system. The GMO crops the third world nations would produce wouldn't even stay in that country they would be exported for cheap feed for US fedlots. The farmers would be worked for pennies and stuck. Thats why their are so many suicides of Indian farmers today.
The breeding and cross breeding has taken place since agriculture began and we effectively mad great crops that we can share and trade with one another. Monsanto is set on destroying that tradition with their patent on life. If a GM crop cross pollinates a field on non-GM crop. Monsanto can sue the farm with the non-GM crop for now have a GM crop. Farmers have lost everything because of this and Monsanto now owns most of agricultural system.Jun 9 2013: I know reading these comments and news can be depressing. But, there is a cure. Robotics. Robots can take the place of bees to pollinate some crops. I grow stuff that is inclosed in a basement where the poisons and insects outside can't get to them. Not this year but last year we had plenty of Tomaties by pollinating them ourselves. The need for bees is really only necessary for farms that grow many fruit for resale.
For the average home owners who is only trying to feed their family, Monsanto and it's herbicides are not a problem. They can produce all they need in a hydroponic garden. If people did this, Monsanto would soon be out of business because they need people to buy their products.
It appears to be an impossible task to turn back the forces of the food industry. But, it is not impossible. If people embrace the DIY and Home Sustainable philosophies, Not only while we be healthier, but our communities will prosper from so much food, grown locally, that imported food will go out of style and those companies will have to focus on feeding their own local populations.
o get ride of the 3000 mile salad greens, we have to start growing our own. LaMar Alexander, a contributor on the Ted.com website, has his own website where he is showing some simple ways that people with less can accomplish more with thier lives if they just give it a try.
It's good reading and will fill your mind with ideas and hopefully take away those "the sky is falling" blues.
Jun 11 2013: Hi John,
Vote with your feet and your rake and shovel. And your hydroponic indoor garden.
How are the grow lights now? Can you use LED or other lower energy bulbs. I have a little green house for starting things.
It's a pleasure to step outside to harvest an onion or a head of lettuce when I'm cooking, and we eat a lot more greens.
I find most heritage seed are hearty and don't need pesticides, even outside. Most native plants like potatoes can fight off local insects and viruses. I spray fruit trees with Neem, a fungicide, insecticide, bactericide from India that has been used possibly for thousands of years. People there use little branches off the Neem tree to brush their teeth.
When a corporation tried to patent the active ingredient in Neem, a very brave indian woman was so outraged she got a group to take it to international court, and they won. International law says you can't patent an existing, traditionally used gene sequence.
Jun 11 2013: They tried to patent a number of natural herbs. India has won each time I believe.
Many countries ignore our Stupid patent laws. That is why manufacturing is moving from countries with patent laws like our to other countries where they don' t care so muh. And, until we change those laws, they won't be coming back.
A good example of international violation is the three day old broccoli sprout. John Hopkins University holds a patent on it. It is an existing, traditionally used gene sequence. They own patents on human gene sequences, especially those associated with female breast cancer. For some women, it is cheaper to have their breasts removed than to pay the money for the tests.
I'm not using LED yet. Too expensive.
I buy organic carrots at the wholesale market and replant them in the garden. They double in size and I eat them. That way I only pay half as much. :)
One of the great things about organic food is you can eat the whole plant. Like Radishes, I eat the whole thing, leaves and all. I eat Sweet Potato leaves too.I do a lot of sprouting. How about you?Jun 8 2013: I stated growing greens, fruit and vegetables three years ago on only a tenth of an acre. There is often such abundance that we take van loads to the food bank. We grow potatoes, onions, garlic, pecans, squash, peaches, etc. If we let things go to seed they popup all over the little lawn we have left. Anybody with a half acre in the suburbs can grow all the vegetables they need. In summer there's chard, in winter there's cabbage; potatoes and onions left in the ground are usable all winter.
The reason for huge industrial farms is profit from patented fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, food and seeds. Genetically altered seeds that must have patented chemicals to survive are the logical next step if your only motive is money. And that step has been taken The growing monopoly on seeds really scares me, which is why I'm writing this. I won't get anything out of it, so the people at Monsanto think I'm stupid.
We use drip irrigation, (no wasting water spraying the air) so we're not watering weeds, so we don't need herbicides.
There are solutions if we rise above profits or if profits stop rising. Everybody in my neighborhood grows heritage gardens. We share. It's fun and we get to know each other.
Monsanto bought our source of heritage seeds and now they have very few available. We need an anti-trust president.
The Pinto case exposed execs who had opted to let people burn to death and pay off the law suits rather than fix a gas tank problem. I'll get the case name if anyone wants it.
Tort lawyers are heroes. They've saved many thousands of lives by suing on behalf of injured people. They protect the public from dangerous drugs, cars, products.
Thank you, Tom Girardi and all the other plaintiff's lawyers.
Jun 8 2013: What you are doing is laudable. Growing you own garden and sharing produce, wonderful. We have a small raised bed in the back yard. We used the square foot method and only organic fertilizers and supplements. One zucchini plant and our neighbors are shutting the door on us. Trading seed with friends, great.
But, your conversation is about GMO products and Monsanto not being legally liable. What are you saying?Jun 8 2013: I am not a fan of corporate socialism either. I can't evaluate what you have told me. However, as we keep growing the population of the country despite the public's preference not to do so It will be harder, harder, and harder to feed us all. Then there is water and garbage and energy etc.
Jun 8 2013: Corporate socialism? Political Socialism!!
Jun 9 2013: Mike - I am not as impressed with corporations as a number of others are that's all I mean.Jun 8 2013: I have researched several sources and found none that hold Monsanto free of legal suit.
It would appear that bees that are sprayed with herbicides could be harmed and subsequently cause damage to hives.
The question begs why spray bees? If bees are kept next to areas where herbicides are used then it is a recipe for disaster. Hives are movable, even over long distances
But you question GMO crops and I got lost in your discussion of bees.
So, why do you think a major corporation would market a product that would sicken or kill people. Ignore legal ramifications, how long do you think they could stay in business.
Is it the idea of GMO? Most every living thing around us has been genetically modified. Your little pet poodle was once a wolf. Corn found with the discovery of the Americas looks nothing like those big yellow cobs we find today. Even doctors are modifying cells to cure disease.
So, what are we talking about?
Jun 8 2013: They're not spraying bees. The bees go into the sprayed fields and/or to the genetically altered plants that have poisonous nectar or pollen and they die from pollinating poisonous plants. It's been reported in the business papers that Monsanto has bought a company that was raising bees that are resistant to round-up. Don't you think Monsanto will try to corner the market on round-up resistant bees and we'll all have to get bees from them because all the other hives will be dead? I've read that as much as 80% of our honey bees have already died. And the most talked about suspected cause isround-up. A few years ago all the butterflies died near a test field of Monsanto corn that had some added gene that produced a pesticide, many plants evidently make poisons to fight off other plants, like tobacco, which creates a toxic zone around itself. Monsanto and some other companies make derivatives of nicotine, like round-up, that are killing bees. The basic design of the poison is natural, but so is arsenic and whatever is in Oleander plants and toadstools.
I wonder how much of those genetically engineered toxins we're getting in corn meal and flour.
I'm sure nobody knows. Maybe that's why so many people can't tolerate wheat anymore.


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First, Ozzie Guillen told Time magazine, I love Fidel Castro. Then he apologized. Now, the much-hyped team's community standing is in turmoil.Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com#ixzz1rZM85slx
First, Ozzie Guillen told Time magazine, I love Fidel Castro. Then he apologized. Now, the much-hyped team's community standing is in turmoil.Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com#ixzz1rZM85slx
Go Phinz ~ Mac
This guy does not understand because to him and Ozzie, it's not a personal thing, they did not go through what the real offended people did.
If you say you admire someone from the KKK, there will be people very offended, but none more then someone that had a family member beaten or killed. If someone says they admired Hitler, many people will be offended, but again none more then people that saw or had a family member killed, beaten, or put in a concentration camp.
What some people should try to do is put themselves in the place of Cubans that had family members killed (Executed), or imprisoned just for not agreeing with the new views of the government.
Put themselves in the place of families that worked all their lives to allow their family to have a better life, and the government comes in and takes everything they had worked for and tells them they no longer own anything, it's now the property of the government.
How about being put in a concentration camp if you decide to leave Cuba, where they treat you like the biggest piece of **** in the world, make you work for the government for most of the day and night, where at the end of the work detail (As I was told) the government allowed them to eat old smelly Russian meat or week/month old food that a family member had brought you.
The same people that can not understand how Cubans are acting like this, would be ten times worse if even half of what these people went through happened to them.
If you're not familiar with the Cuban community then you really cannot understand what Ozzie's comments meant.
If Ozzie says exactly what he said in Seattle or Philadelphia, no one blinks. You can't say something like that in Miami. Will not end well.
It's just like you can talk about bombs inside of a Burger King...but you shouldn't talk about bombs inside of an airport.
It's just not very bright.
Exactly, also Guillen never apologizes to anyone, in fact he would be quicker to tell someone to f off then tell them he was sorry, yet here he is almost on his knees, he knows he messed up royally. Anyone that knows what the Cuban community went through, or their passion for this, knows this is a big No No.
Agree with both of you guys. He said this in he absolutely worst possible place.
Doesn't surprise me at all
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Many of the local and area schools started this week.
Also, the week zero football games start Friday night. Lenox and East Union kick off the season this Friday.
This summer seemed to go pretty fast. Although technically we still have a month before fall kicks in.
State fair
I was kind of surprised by the low attendance at the Iowa State Fair this year.
The cooler than usual weather should have attracted a few more folks than the usual hot weather we get during fair week. My guess is the lack of quality entertainment may have hurt the turnout some. Also, the prices are starting to get a little steep for the average family. By the time you pay to get in, parking, a turkey leg and lemonade for a family of four, you have more than $100 spent! Even the glider is $7 for a round trip. It's getting about time for the state fair board to think about some "family deals" that many ballparks and zoos have been trying. Or maybe some half-price days!
In today's world you have to do a lot more marketing and promoting to get people out.
It's a wonderful state fair, but in today's world you have to have something new or different to get people out.
Balloon Days is coming to Creston within the next month. The Creston Chamber of Commerce has T-shirts and sweatshirts on sale for the event. This year's shirt is pretty. The white shirt and full color artwork really stands out.
The local community college doesn't start back until next Wednesday.
Housing seems to be in short supply this year. So if you have a place to rent or want to take in a college student, all you have to do is call SWCC. They are looking for housing for a number of students who currently don't have a spot to land.
Labor Day
The "last big holiday" of the summer is only a week away. Labor Day makes an early appearance this year with the Monday holiday showing up Sept. 2.
It is the main kickoff weekend for college football. Iowa, Iowa State and Nebraska are all at home and in action. Northern Iowa visits Iowa State that weekend. The following Thursday the NFL kicks off with two games on the opening night.
If you are going to be out traveling the highways and interstates, you had better watch yourself. There will be extra patrols out starting Monday all the way through Labor Day. Not only will they be looking for speeders, but also drunk drivers, so be safe!
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Watch your mailbox! Any day now, you will be getting your property-tax statement. No matter what county you live in, the annual billing first half will be due the end of September.
The general economy is growing at less than 2 percent. It will be interesting to see how many of the local taxing entities were below that figure, especially if the land valuations went up dramatically.
The annual Creston Panther Football kickoff cookout and fundraiser is Saturday.
The event is at Crestmoor and is always a lot of fun. There is a great auction, plus a nice dinner. Good ole Tom Hartsock has tickets if you need one. He can be reached at 782-8516.
Our annual fall sports guide will be out next week. All the area teams are represented. Local Sports Editor Scott Vicker and Sports Reporter Larry Peterson do a great job of covering the area teams and always put together a nice preview section. It's a good read for local sports fans.
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Nik Launches Animated Short Contest - March 29 '13
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Think you can come up with the next SpongeBob? Then check out Nickelodeon's new Animated Shorts Program Contest. The cable studio is looking for new creator talent and has kicked off the new year by inviting creative types to share their ideas for a funny original animated short.
Here are the official guidelines:
Animated shorts must be: comedic, character driven and have kid appeal!
We look for ideas that feature an original, funny lead character – with about 2 or 3 characters in total. Be prepared to show either through designs, thumbnail storyboards or script, how funny and unique your characters are.
Characters must be relatable to kids ages 6 to 11 and appeal to both boys and girls. All submissions must be kid-appropriate in content.
Shorts are limited to 2 minutes in length and should primarily take place in 1 setting.
We are open to all animation styles including 2D, digital 2D, CG, Stop Motion, Flash and Mixed Media.
Your pitch materials must include:
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2 minute rough thumbnail storyboards or 2 minute outline/script
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Online submissions can be sent through www.nickshortspitches.com.
The deadline for submissions is March 29 2013. No submissions will be accepted after this time.
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their is more to be a great qb than postseason, because although that is the biggest stage and all, their are plenty of people in sports that show up during the big stage, but are not consistent in the regular season, or play on a below par level compared to their postseason play level.
i dont like comparing sport to sport, but lebron james no doubt is a top talent in the nba, but he has 0 championships, does that mean he is not a top player in the game?
derek jeter has 5 rings, does that mean he is a better player than ted williams was who has 0 rings and 1 postseason appearance i believe?
playoffs are a big part, dont get me wrong, but what seperates the top echelon players and the very good players is the ability to perform at a consistently high level in the playoffs and REGULAR SEASON.
The giants get hot at the right time, thats what happens, and good for them, at the end of the day as long as you win, no one should give it back. But lets be honest, if the giants have a regular season like they had this year, they prob wont make the playoffs next year ( 1st time in 36 years nfc east division winner won 9 or less games)
if playoffs were all that mattered, dan marino is one of the worst qbs of all time, see how absurd that sounds?


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JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas — Retired Air Force civilians who use the Air Force Form 354, Civilian Identification Card, to access Air Force installations have until early 2014 – when the AF354 will be rescinded – to get a Department of Defense Civilian Retiree ID Card or other access credentials, Air Force Personnel Center officials said.
The AF354 was a card-stock product that allowed civilian retirees and their eligible dependents to enter an Air Force installation, with installation commander approval, but only for access to limited Morale, Welfare, and Recreation facilities (access which also applies to current Air Force employees and their dependents).
The card was not issued from the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System / Real-time Automated Personnel Identification System, and is not recognized by the Department of Defense under the Personnel Identity Protection Program for DEERS or by other services for installation access, said Ed Yoder, Air Force DEERS/RAPIDS project office.
"The card doesn't meet the stringent security requirements established by the Department of Homeland Security," Yoder said. "Installation access requires a secure card with identity vetting and online capabilities, such as bar code scanning."
Although retired civilians can get a DOD identification card, there isn't an equivalent for eligible dependents.
"On installations where the commander has approved civilian retiree and dependent access, they can contact the civilian personnel office as a starting point for determining eligibility and for getting a secure access card for their family members," Yoder said.
Many bases use Defense Biometric Identification System cards for all installation access. With a commander approval letter from the force support squadron and a DBIDS card, retired Air Force civilian employees and their dependents will be able to access an installation.
"Like the 354, the DBIDS card and letter will only be good for the one installation," Yoder said. "You won't be able to use it to get on other Air Force or DOD installations."
Once the AF354 is officially rescinded, which is tentatively slated for January, installation security will confiscate AF354 cards presented for access, so civilians should not wait to replace their access cards, he said.
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Oct 7, 2009
I believe all of these photos were taken in the US. Enjoy.You just click your way through all of the pictures if they don't run on their own.
Across American
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- Cass @ That Old House said...
I went to full screen on this, and am glad I did. Spectacular! What an amazing collection of pictures from across the USA. Wonderful. Thanks ... Cass
- October 7, 2009 at 8:32 AM
- Mary said...
Your pictures are fabulous. Thank you for sharing them with us. Have a great day, Lori.
- October 7, 2009 at 10:55 AM
- Ms. Bake-it said...
Like Cass, I went to full screen. What an awesome slideshow. It is nice to know we still have beautiful places like that here in the US.
Thank you for sharing the slideshow with us.
~ Tracy
- October 7, 2009 at 12:13 PM
- Lynn said...
Woo Hoo! I have been to 9 of these places!
I know, Shut up, Lynn.
- October 7, 2009 at 12:30 PM
- Shirley said...
Wonderful photos. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland is where my daughter just did a wedding photo shot and is going back this Sunday to do a family photo shoot.
- October 7, 2009 at 12:50 PM
- mbkatc230 said...
I went to full screen also, and these pictures really are breathtaking. I really love the one of Ghostly Township - fantastic shot! Kathy
- October 7, 2009 at 4:48 PM
- LDH said...
I agree with the others that the pictures are amazing. So nice to visit your place for the first time. I have enjoyed meeting you!
Kindly, ldh
- October 7, 2009 at 7:58 PM
- daylily777 said...
Beautiful slideshow, Thanks for sharing .;~)
- October 7, 2009 at 9:54 PM
- Michelle said...
Gorgeous slide show! Makes one really appreciate how beautiful our country is! Love the pic from Arkansas!
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Statements posted here are those of our readers and do not represent the BaseballThinkFactory. Names are provided by the poster and are not verified. We ask that posters follow our submission policy. Please report any inappropriate comments.1. boteman asks Where's My Ring? posted on May 14, 2013 at 09:44 AM #
It's simply not reasonable to expect security to determine which wall-jumpers have bad intentions and which want to plant a kiss on Robinson Cano's cheek.
...why did Morganna just disappear?
Because baseball is too full of itself, too self-important to allow such hijinx.
Nobody wants to see a 50-year-old woman lumbering out there to kiss someone anyway
Aer you sure about that? I remember that game and I don't recall that at all and google doesn't turn up anything.
Nobody wants to see a 50-year-old woman lumbering out there to kiss someone anyway
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Gallery: Magical Dome House in Remote Thailand Constructed in Six Weeks...
Truth be told, rules are a little lax in Thailand, so Steve wasn't required to obtain building permits for his 500 square foot home, which naturally shortened the process. Then he added his own finishing touches once the main building was complete, including doors, screens, shelves, a pond and a gazebo, stonework and landscaping – all of which he did himself using materials sourced within the direct vicinity.
Although he wasn't able to take his tranquil abode off the grid this time, such that the water is heated and the house is illuminated with electricity powered by conventional sources, the home is naturally cooled and lit during the daytime thanks to cutouts in the roof. The bedroom dome is capped with a beautiful grass roof and the bathroom, like an atrium, is filled with plants and completed with subtle touches such as a bamboo faucet that funnels water into a beautiful bowl – like cupped Buddha hands.
The terracotta paint meshes beautifully with the lush tropical fauna, while small ponds add even greater serenity to the site and design. This is Steve's first Dome House, but the experience has inspired him to help others achieve something similar, so he is currently scouting out property in Oregon with a group of people so that he can build another – except he hopes the next one will be constructed using more sustainable earthen bricks instead. Meanwhile, he doesn't know it yet, but he'll be building one for us next!
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Michael Rhoden June 2, 2015 at 1:08 pm
I'll buy the plans when they are available!
Patricia Brown March 17, 2015 at 6:02 pm
His first dome home, and it is magnificent!
Peter Choy February 10, 2015 at 4:43 pm
I would love to know what were the actual steps you took to build this beautiful dome home, have you written a book or made a youtube film of your process? Not many domes have round windows and doors, love the interior design too. I have wanted to build one for myself for the past 60 years!!! I have a 5 acre farm and may be tempted to build one on my farm! Please write to me to let me know your progress in Oregon!!
Angelo Ricciardi January 8, 2015 at 8:25 am
Lovely! how can I get more info to make something similar in Thai?
Abood Abaad November 3, 2014 at 12:48 pm
Inspirational, esthetically smart and a dream house for a poet or an artist, with a vision of a remote treasured nature.
I'm a poet and a painter, I wish I could have that kind of place where I'll have a lot to say and a lot to paint.
Excellent work.
JE RA September 21, 2014 at 2:54 pm
Adorei, trabalho maravilhoso.
Douglas Te Paa August 16, 2014 at 11:36 pm
would love to build one on big island what would i need?
Enjoybeing June 8, 2014 at 6:34 am
Yes Steve, I've got about 25-30 of these i need built. In ThaiLand. Please send your team over here when available. Your Dome is a huge hit!!
windhorse May 20, 2014 at 12:25 pm
The house is so perfect, combines beauty and practicality and affordability. Kudos to this genus!
jackypat May 16, 2014 at 2:59 pm
I have a small lot in fla. 5 mins from the ocean and this would be perfect!
Mark Styles April 29, 2014 at 10:22 pm
Wow.. looks amazing.. I'd love a home like that.. I wonder if the various states in US, prohibit, unothordox buildings.. Although I did see a dome house in Upstate NY in the 80's
Where can you find building plans for it..
Allan Leigh April 23, 2014 at 7:48 pm
Hi I live in Kanchanaburi as a retired Aussie soldier.
I have just purchased 3 Rai about 40 km from town; and request information/ideas to build my own home….???
Or alternatively Thai building contractors who will build up to more Western standards, okay.
Cheers Allan Leigh
Jewel Shepard April 7, 2014 at 8:40 pm
Steve… pictures of the new digs, please!!!
eveline March 22, 2014 at 12:38 pm
congratulations specially for the sink of bathroom and all is beautiful in this creation
Charlene Prosser March 21, 2014 at 1:17 am
I love Steve's Dome Home.
Beth Abreu March 18, 2014 at 2:10 pm
Oh, God! Bilbo Baggins went to Thailand and told us nothing????? Amazing building!
Rosa M. March 11, 2014 at 9:53 pm
Would love to make one… who I need to contact????
Cellamarie March 9, 2014 at 5:33 pm
I live in Ashland, OR and I would LOVE to be part of making this happen here! I have been dreaming of a home like this for as long as I can remember. How can I be of support?
Ral West March 1, 2014 at 8:39 pm
Gorgeous! Inspiring! Is a floor plan avaqilable anywhere? The photos are lovely…AND…it's not easy to get a sense of the layout. What else is possible? Ps: To Ancient Flower: Check out monolithic.com
They sell some small modular units
Mig February 26, 2014 at 12:53 am
I would love one of these. I live in New Zealand and we have the land to build on. Would love to contact Steve Areen and talk about getting one built.
Augusto Polo February 17, 2014 at 11:46 pm
I am moving to Costa Rica and would love to build a couple of them there. Who should I contact?
Ancient Flower December 29, 2013 at 11:37 pm
Hi there Buddy, this is an amazing and beautiful house you have constructed and wouldn't be out of place here in England.
I think Modular Housing would really help all those dispossessed people who are running from brutal oppressors. The cheaper the better, anyone got any ideas on that score? I'm sure you'll find someone to pass them on to…
AmberAmber716 December 9, 2013 at 11:56 pm
What happens when it rains lol
michael301 October 21, 2013 at 2:14 pm
I\'m living in SW Oklahoma near Wichita Mtns & wondering how \"Red Earth \" /granite version would work out…(there\'s a \'secret\' blue clay @ too.. a sprinkle of cobblestone would be way cool.. Also, i have connections w/ Willis Monuments in \"Granite Mtns\" which has \'scraps\', some Very Large, to be had free, but won\'t deliver. (free of course)
Glynn Dandan August 13, 2013 at 11:37 pm
will the phillippiens allow you build there me and my husband will buy property there in the next two years can you build there if we asked and how much will it cost
Alice Singh May 16, 2013 at 6:59 am
I'm simply in love with this and want the same for me too.
ryker April 29, 2013 at 10:06 am
Pictures of the build process can be found at Steveareen.com
DirtQueenMagill April 24, 2013 at 10:42 am
does anyone know what building method he used? is it cast concrete? the article does not say other than \\\'terracotta paint\\\' which leads me to believe this is a concrete structure and not mud?
babypinky80 April 20, 2013 at 4:28 am
i like it alot~~~i wonder if it would be difficult to obtain building permit to build these dome homes in hawaii <3 i love this idea and think its darling
Lorree Gardener Milne April 19, 2013 at 2:28 pm
This is so beautiful! I have 5 acres (actually 2 – 5 acre parcels) for sale in a forest 10 miles from Olympia, WA…. close to Oregon!
Amy Kins April 17, 2013 at 10:55 am
This is the most amazing house I ever seen! I have a 5 year plan of one day opening my own surf/yoga retreat. I really hope that Steve Areen can help me build a few of these homes for my resort.
<3 <3 <3
angel333star April 17, 2013 at 6:28 am
I am seriously interested in getting Steve to build one of these beautiful homes for me. Please contact me.
Gratitude. Elizabeth.
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