Recently, many people around the world have been up in arms against Monsanto and GMO crops/food. There is growing concern about the safety of these manufacatured sources of food. We have seen a flood of images where people are wearing full hazmat suits and spraying crops with pesticides. If these pesticides are safe to be sprayed on our food, why the need for a hazmat suit?
Many countries are now banning GMO/Monsanto items of all kinds and are foccusing on organic fostuffs. Of course, organic food is nothing new. We’ve been eating it for hundreds of thousands of years. At this time, though, the corporations are having a field day with the high prices on these organic foods. It is an artificially inflated price on something that we all have the right to.
The supermarket chains have cornered the market on food supplies tthrough the use of GMO foods and have wiped out much of the competition and have taken over farm lands and put many farmers out of business. Soon the supermarkets will be supplying us with all organic foods, but how will the prices reflect this in, what seems to be, a total scam.
These GMO crops and pesticides are being blamed on the vast amount of deaths in bee colonies. Without the bees, we are almost doomed.
France is taking a step forwards;
According to the country’s Agricultural Minister, France wants to double the area of farmland devoted to organic agriculture by 2017 to meet growing consumer demand through local production.
France is the European Union’s biggest agricultural producer and has lately seen rapid growth of organic framing, which, at the end of 2012, accounted for 3.7 percent of its farmland.
Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll said that they want to increase the amount of research and training in growing techniques and the amount of organic food available in outlets.
“We’re going to develop in such a way that we’ll increase volume while maintaining the level of quality,” he said. “I want the French (organic) sector to be a high-quality one.”
The French government plans to raise annual subsidies for organic farmers from 90 million euros to an average of 160 million euros between 2014 and 2020.
Officials said that attracting organic farmers remains a challenge due to the high yields and profitable market prices seen with conventional grain.
France plans on doubling organic farmland area by 2017
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