ESSAY OF THE WEEK
End Climate Chaos: Boycott GMOs and Factory-Farmed Food
Farmers are sounding an alarm. As global warming heats up and crops are ravaged by droughts, flooding, disease and superweeds, the farm economy is taking a huge hit.
Scientists are clear: America’s chemical-, energy- and GMO-intensive industrial agricultural practices and factory farms have destroyed billions of acres of perennial grasslands, topsoil and wetlands. The result? Soil that has been robbed of its ability to naturally sequester billions of tons of CO2 every year. Until America’s farmers and ranchers turn away from the industrial and factory farm model that has severely damaged public health and the environment, and supersaturated the atmosphere with 395 ppm (parts-per-million) of CO2 greenhouse gas pollution, climate and farming conditions will deteriorate.
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