We Can Save the Planet if We Take Organic Route
The Universe
(March 14, 2004)
THE love and respect for God’s creation is
increasingly under attack as the spread of genetically-modified crops
and chemical-based food production damages the environment and endangers
the food chain.
When we look out at the countryside this spring to
marvel at the coming of life and admire God’s beauty reflected in
nature, we might see the effects of our greed and carelessness. We, the
species with the brains and intelligence, are perversely killing off as
many as 50 species a day.
Huge nets, a kilometer long are decimating
dolphins, fishing in the North Sea and Atlantic has driven species to
the point of extinction, wild flowers are becoming rare and bees and
butterflies die because of the toxic chemicals in the plants.
Tests of GM crops have shown that plants with
pesticides inserted into their genes kill off or poison a host of
insects, birds are starved and their reproductive life is damaged.
We ourselves are the most affected. Human
reproduction has diminished in nations dependent on chemical-based
agriculture and this too is spreading to the developing world as the
multinationals peddle their pesticides. Our cells are damaged by the
chemical in our food, causing deadly tumours.
All this, together with the pollution from
factories and cars, makes a toxic soup guaranteed to kill. Mix in the
radioactivity from nuclear waste and we might wonder why we are not
dying faster.
The EU is introducing new regulations that will
make food producers declare every GM component in the products. I advise
all to read carefully the labels on the food and avoid anything that is
non-organic.
Even if we have been eating these bland substances
passed off as “food” for years, our bodies can recover and expel the
chemicals if we change to organically-frown food. Our parents and
grandparents never farmed with insecticides. They were traditionally
organic and recycled everything. They lived long healthy lives, even
without modern medicine.
Modern organic farming is much more sophisticated
and labour intensive and so the produce is more expensive, but if the
public rejects the chemical-based stuff, then healthy organic farming
will be reinstated as the norm.
Prices will drop quickly with abundance and competition and the wildlife and the environment will be saved. For the love of God and creation we have to save the planet and ourselves.
