500lbguerilla
10-14-2005, 03:01 PM
Interesting article on allergies, the drug war and coporate destruction.
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In the most recent Popular Mechanics, an award notification was published recognizing(1) a high school student, Sarah Mims in Seguin, Texas, who did an experiment using a kite and a special bucket with filters, set up to capture the particulate matter in air currents. Initially, she had used a ground recovery sample station in her own backyard, set up on a deer stand. (2) She found that samples taken from air currents that traveled over Central America during the burning of fields and forests carried LIVE mold spores. This subject is of particular interest to me. In the past four years I have developed severe allergies to molds, and personally know several other people who have as well. I did some research concentrating on one genus of mold I react to very severely: fusarium.
There is an herbicide most of us are familar with, and might even use. It is the number one best seller on the planet, Monsanto's Round Up. One of the side effects of the use of Round up is an imbalance in soil biology, that helps fusarium mold grow. Fusarium attacks the root systems of many kinds of plants, causing wilt and death.
It is so effective in killing some kinds of plants that there was a proposal to use fusarium against coca and marijuana fields in South America, during the Clinton Administration. The coca plants had developed (or possibly had been bred), to resist Roundup (glyphosate), which was the primary herbicide used against them. Clinton did not allow the fusarium to be used in Columbia, for fear of accusations of biological warfare. (3)
In 2000, a firm, Ag/Bio Con (4) developed a strain of fusarium oxysporum mold they called EN-4, and that the military calls FOXY. David Sands, vice president of the company and primary producer, lobbied the members of Congress to use it against coca fields. Congress even attached a string to an aid package to Columbia saying that to receive the aid, the country must allow the use of these mycoherbicides. This proposal was rejected by the Columbian President, but strangely outbreaks of EN-4 mold infestations starting showing up in other South American countries, such as Peru.(5) By international law, the US may not export or introduce potentially harmful bio-agents into the biosphere of other countries. The supposedly spontaneous outbreaks of the EN-4 strain of Fusarium, allowed the stuff to be pushed as a mycoherbicide, because it was already there. The reasoning was to attack the growing of illicit drug crops. There were reports that the supposed natural outbreaks of EN-4 were preceded by US helicopters spraying an unknown agent in the areas. The use of this kind of mycoherbicide was squashed and made illegal by the countries in the Andes, that had been pressured to allow the spraying. Jeremy Bigwood describes the history in this article (6), and warned in July, 2005 that:
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In the most recent Popular Mechanics, an award notification was published recognizing(1) a high school student, Sarah Mims in Seguin, Texas, who did an experiment using a kite and a special bucket with filters, set up to capture the particulate matter in air currents. Initially, she had used a ground recovery sample station in her own backyard, set up on a deer stand. (2) She found that samples taken from air currents that traveled over Central America during the burning of fields and forests carried LIVE mold spores. This subject is of particular interest to me. In the past four years I have developed severe allergies to molds, and personally know several other people who have as well. I did some research concentrating on one genus of mold I react to very severely: fusarium.
There is an herbicide most of us are familar with, and might even use. It is the number one best seller on the planet, Monsanto's Round Up. One of the side effects of the use of Round up is an imbalance in soil biology, that helps fusarium mold grow. Fusarium attacks the root systems of many kinds of plants, causing wilt and death.
It is so effective in killing some kinds of plants that there was a proposal to use fusarium against coca and marijuana fields in South America, during the Clinton Administration. The coca plants had developed (or possibly had been bred), to resist Roundup (glyphosate), which was the primary herbicide used against them. Clinton did not allow the fusarium to be used in Columbia, for fear of accusations of biological warfare. (3)
In 2000, a firm, Ag/Bio Con (4) developed a strain of fusarium oxysporum mold they called EN-4, and that the military calls FOXY. David Sands, vice president of the company and primary producer, lobbied the members of Congress to use it against coca fields. Congress even attached a string to an aid package to Columbia saying that to receive the aid, the country must allow the use of these mycoherbicides. This proposal was rejected by the Columbian President, but strangely outbreaks of EN-4 mold infestations starting showing up in other South American countries, such as Peru.(5) By international law, the US may not export or introduce potentially harmful bio-agents into the biosphere of other countries. The supposedly spontaneous outbreaks of the EN-4 strain of Fusarium, allowed the stuff to be pushed as a mycoherbicide, because it was already there. The reasoning was to attack the growing of illicit drug crops. There were reports that the supposed natural outbreaks of EN-4 were preceded by US helicopters spraying an unknown agent in the areas. The use of this kind of mycoherbicide was squashed and made illegal by the countries in the Andes, that had been pressured to allow the spraying. Jeremy Bigwood describes the history in this article (6), and warned in July, 2005 that:
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