Old Fools Journal: Do You Long For Some Agent Orange In Your Life?

or What a glorious world it will be when Monsanto owns all the food.
What could go wrong?


The mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work if it isn't open  Anonymous

Monsanto is a corporation and corporations are people. As John Fogerty sang  "I know it's true, oh so true, 'cause I saw it on TV". In this case some no nothing politician said it. The only thing wrong with this is that  if a person did what Monsanto does they would be executed. What I mean by executed is drug out bodily by a mob to their fields of "genetically modified organisms" tied to a stake then the whole thing set on fire. How do you execute or even punish a corporation? The method we use now is to fine them after the bodies are found. They pay hundreds of millions of dollars which does not bring back the dead, heal the sick or protect future generations and it is a fraction of one percent of the profits made under the protection of the government. They are, like the oil industry, intent on making a profit at any cost. The cost is our health and our lives. It has an upside. It turns our millionaire congressman into billionaires.

I would really rather eat food and not "genetically modified organisms". I don't want Genetically Modified Organism on the cob smothered in butter laden with anti-biotics and growth hormones.

If you truly long for agent orange then use a lot of  24D (Round-up) and you may find what you are looking for.  You can have my share.

I have boycotted Dow Chemical for years because of the deadly chemical warfare weapons of mass destruction they manufacture and now I boycott Monsanto for their warfare on the plants that sustain us. I don't know how successful it is but it is something and if I am doing it then so are millions of others.  My tomatoes may not be as big and as pretty as yours. They may be downright unsightly at times but I'm not afraid to put them in my mouth.

In my quest for information I use several hours of my remaining life everyday studying how to grow stuff and I recently ran across this documentary "The World According to Monsanto".  As near as I can tell it has not been shown in the U.S.A.  It is a full length movie, one hour and forty nine minutes (in metric that is one hour and forty nine minutes) and far exceeds the attention span of most Americans.

The photo at the top is of one of our mini-gardens in the big garden. It is 2 feet by about 4 feet and there are five rows.  Sounds crowded doesn't it but it's not. It has three rows of French Breakfast radishes on a staggered planting schedule and two rows of bunching onions. The radishes are coming up and I eat them as fast as they grow usually right from the ground. I do shake the dirt off and rub them on my kilt to clean them up. No one else here much cares for them. By the time these are finished I'll have had my fill until the fall. Really I'd rather have them than candy.
By the time they are finished the onions should be getting to a usable size. I eat them straight from the soil as well. This soil has no petro-chemical fertilizer. We have used it in the past but I think it is all gone now. I hope so.

This is an 18 foot row. The potatoes are in upper left and in the foreground are brussel sprouts and cauliflower. It's supposed to be all brussel sprouts but it was mislabeled and I just read the label and didn't look at the plant. Dumb, however we are eating the cauliflower and it is ever so good. I'm going to plant it again in the fall. There are only four brussel sprouts to get us through until fall and it will just have to do. Eight plants carries us through the summer and fall but we'll be a little short unless I can coax some to flower in the fall.

The soil in these beds is of my own mix some of which is from Texas and some from Arkansas. The potatoes are a mixture of soil from here which came from the "worm bed" where our kitchen scraps go. It has a hundred pounds or so of what I call Bill Clinton soil added recently. I call it that because it came from Hope, Arkansas. Unlike Bill it has no bullshit in it but it is silty and fine and cuts the abundance of clay we have nicely. It will all be buried in hay mulch soon.


A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.  -Doug Larson