Carbon footprint of homegrown fruit, veg and weed five times greater than those grown conventionally?

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Study Says Individual garden infrastructure (i.e. growing your own,) is responsible for increased levels of CO2.

It is well known, or ought to be by now that Boggart Blog does not have a high opinion of 'scientists.' This is not to say we think all people whose work involves use of the natural and applied sciences or some kind of research is a wanker who will rig their reports to produce the result whoever is funding them requires., but on the balance of evidence most of those on the payroll of governments and supra national QUANGOs (Quasi - autonomous non governmental organisations certainly appear to be. Were it otherwise how could any sane person be involved in a study which reports that growing your own vegetables, fruit or recreational drugs in your garden is more harmful to 'the planet' than industrialised farming.

Michigan University Study Warns That Gardening Is Bad For The Planet
via The Daily Telegraph, 25 January

A study from the University of Michigan has concluded that, “The carbon footprint of homegrown foods is five times greater than produce from conventional agricultural practices, such as rural farms, data show.

looked at how much CO2 was produced when growing food in different types of urban farms and found that, on average, a serving of food made from traditional farms creates 0.07kg of CO2.

The impact on the environment is almost five times higher at 0.34kg per portion for individual gardens, such as vegetable patches or allotments.”

Jake Hawes, a PhD candidate at Michigan and first author of the study, said: “The most significant contributor to carbon emissions on the urban agriculture sites we studied was the infrastructure used to grow the food – from raised beds to garden sheds to pathways, these constructions had a lot of carbon invested in their construction.

The study, published in the journal Nature Cities, recruited 73 urban agriculture sites around the world, including Europe, the US, and the UK, and conducted a comprehensive life cycle assessment on the site’s infrastructure, irrigation and supplies.

FFS they'll be tell in us breathing is bad for the effing planet next - oh ... ummm, somebody already has.

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Food Crisis Imminent: Russia Bans Fertilizer Exports,Hungary Bans All Grain Exports, Effective Immediately

 

Last week we reported that Russia effectively banned exports of ammonium nitrate, the main ingredient in commercial fertilizers fertilizers and a commodity which Russia effectively controls, producing two thirs of the worlds annual needs. We warned that even without the disruption to oil and gas supplies that will inevitably result from the conflict in Ukraine, the loss of fertilizer production alone will result in a food crisis with shortages of staple foods and rocketing prices in shops. 

And as if that was not bad enough, today we learned that Hungary - one of Europe's most grain rich nations - in anticipation of vastly reduced crop yields without fertilizers, has announced that it will be banning all grain exports effective immediately.

Expect wheat prices, already at record highs, to promptly double from here in the next few weeks as the world exists in a permanent state of near crisis realizes the extent of the global food crisis that is coming.

Much of the world, particularly the poorer regions exist in a permanent state of near famine with the balance of supply and demand for food always on a knife edge and the conflict between Ukraine and Russia will push the world's hunger crisis closer to catastrophe. The two countries are major producers of wheat,  - and Ukraine has traditionally been known as Europe's bread basket. They are also two of the world's major exporters of staple wheat and other staples, and a protracted crisis with prolonged interruptions in supply chains will result in higher food prices for everybody and hit the poor, who can leat afford to absorb higher food costs, hardest of all.

A Gallup data survey offers some insight into the populations most likely to suffer serious consequences from prolonged disruption of supplies: People in countries reliant on wheat from Ukraine or Russia, where large segments of their populations were also struggling to afford food before the war broke out. Many countries on the list, including Egypt, Turkey and Kenya, are also in the throes of political upheaval with civil conflict having broken out in some. These s ituations can only  be made worse if large segments of the populations face starvation.

The first to declare a humanitarian crisis is likely to be Turkey, which imports 75% of its wheat from Russia and Ukraine in a normal year, making it the most dependent on supplies from those countries. In 2021, a slim majority of Turks (51%) reported being unable to afford food in the past 12 months. Turkey's vulnerability is exacerbated by economic crisis and high levels of inflation.

In second place for reliance on grain from Ukraine and Russia is Egypt, which received 70% of the country's grain imports from those nations in 2019. More than 40% of  Egyptians in 2021 reported being too hard up to buy food at some time in the last 12 months.

Egypt's economy was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, but when final figures are available it could show positive growth for 2020 and 2021. Inflation is high and rising however, and further increases in food prices will quickly cancel out the small gains the Egyptian economy has made.

Kenya obtained just over a third of its wheat imports from Russia and Ukraine in 2019,  below the percentages of imports for Turkey and Egypt. However, nearly seven in 10 Kenyans lacked money for food in the last year according to Gallup, substantially higher than in Turkey or Egypt.

It is unclear how long disruptions in the food supply due to the war in Ukraine will last, though world higher wheat prices around the world have already triggered increases in food prices. For the developed world, increased prices for wheat will likely cause many to struggle with increases in food prices, but these populations will continue to cope. In the developing world, where populations already struggle to afford food, they may result in famine and social upheaval.

Disruption of Ukrainian wheat supplies may prove doubly painful for regions already in food crisis such as The Horn Of Africa and Yemen. Ukraine was the second-largest supplier of wheat to the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) in 2020 and 2021. Unable to procure wheat from Ukraine, WFP will likely have to purchase the grain from other, more expensive sources and thus have less aid to provide to those at the greatest risk.

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A public outcry is developing over a new report that claims genetically modified (GE or GMO) foods are safe for human and animal consumption.

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Genetically Engineered Crops: Experiences and Prospects (pdf), released on Tuesday (17 May, 2016) by the federally-supported organisation US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, National Research Council (NRC) states not only that GMO crops are safe to eat, but that they have no adverse environmental impacts and have cut down on pesticide use. There are two statements in the preceding sentence that are hotly disputed by independent scientists. Its publication comes as U.S. Congress — which founded the institution—considers making GMO labeling mandatory on consumer products.

 There is always some controversy attached to these reports but in this instance the subject is a highly controversial one and information has emerge that NRC, the  organization that produced the report has ties to the biotechnology industry in general and in particular has taken corporate grants from Monsanto, the biggest player in the GM crop seeds business.

“There clearly are strong non-safety arguments and considerable public support for mandatory labeling of products containing GE material. The committee does not believe that mandatory labeling of foods with GE content is justified to protect public health,” the report states.
However, on the day before publication of the report, the independent environmental watchdog group Food & Water Watch (FWW) reported in an issue brief (pdf) that the National Research Council (NRC)—the National Academy of Sciences’ research arm has deep ties to the biotech and agricultural industries, which FWW says have “created conflicts of interests at every level of the organization.”

The NRC and the National Academy of Science take millions of dollars in funding from corporations like Monsanto, and other biotech firms including DuPont, and Dow Chemical, FWW reported in its issue brief, Under the Influence: The National Research Council and GMOs (pdf).

Representatives from those companies—along with big food wannabe monopolists Cargill, ADM,  General Mills, and Nestlé Purina, among other GMO-friendly corporate members of the big food cartel —  sit on the NRC’s board that oversees GMO projects, thus making the NRC's work in biotech vulnerable to lobbying from vested interests. NRC has not publicly disclosed those ties, FWW said. This is damning enough in itself and when you know that more than half of the invited authors of the new report have proven ties to the industry it makes the report worthless.

According to the FWW brief, not only does the NRC have a history of bias toward the biotech industry, it has also worked to suppress criticism of GMOs, the dodgy scientific work that declares them safe and of the companies that have placemen on its board.

“While companies like Monsanto and its academic partners are heavily involved in the NRC’s work on GMOs, critics have long been marginalized,” said Wenonah Hauter, FWW executive director. “Many groups have called on the NRC many times to reduce industry influence, noting how conflicts of interest clearly diminish its independence and scientific integrity.”

The FWW document states:

Weak, watered-down or biased findings from the NRC have a very real impact on our food system. Policy makers develop “science-based” rules and regulations on GMOs based on what the science says—especially what the NRC says, because it is part of the National Academy of Sciences, chartered by Congress to provide scientific advice to the federal government.
And this is where science can become politicized. Companies like Monsanto need favorable science and academic allies to push their controversial products through regulatory approval and on to American farms. Corporate agribusinesses pour millions of dollars into our public universities, play a heavy hand in peer-reviewed scientific journals and seek to influence prestigious scientific bodies like the National Research Council.

Despite these criticisms, the NRC has continued to conceal its connections to biotech and big food corporations and the true influence the industry wields over research in this field.

“Under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the NRC is required to form balanced committees of scientists to carry out its research—and to disclose any conflicts of interest,” Hauter continued. “Yet the NRC failed to disclose even the conflicts of the members of this deeply unbalanced committee.”
“Agribusiness companies like Monsanto have an outsized role at our public universities, at peer-reviewed journals, and the NRC,” Hauter concluded. “We won’t have good public policy on new technologies like GMOs until these rampant conflicts of interest are exposed.”

So more corporate corruption exposed. This blog does not have an issue with humans eating produce from genetically modified seed stock, plenty of scientists have disputed the industry funded studies that declare it safe, but we are not qualified to comment knowledgeably on such issues. What we are qualified to comment on and what concerns us and ought to concern all consumers is the eagerness of the US government and the European Union (EU) to collaborate with global food corporations with established reputations for unethical behaviour of the corporations that have acquired patents on seeds for the most important staple food plant species the and the risk to public welfare of putting control of the worlds supply of staple foods into the hands of some very untrustworthy corporate pirates.

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