tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post114542476736387457..comments2023-11-05T17:30:43.108+05:30Comments on DAYLIGHT AGAIN: SCARED I AMraufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1146565291806438122006-05-02T15:51:00.000+05:302006-05-02T15:51:00.000+05:30Lucky are the people who grow their own food Patty...Lucky are the people who grow their own food Pattyraufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1146557320174781232006-05-02T13:38:00.000+05:302006-05-02T13:38:00.000+05:30Lovely photos & great post, Rauf! Sad about pesti...Lovely photos & great post, Rauf! Sad about pesticides though.Pattyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07760407650440015397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1146094833381539552006-04-27T05:10:00.000+05:302006-04-27T05:10:00.000+05:30Thanks Jocelynthe first picture is pomogranateThanks Jocelyn<BR/>the first picture is pomogranateraufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1146076785044995482006-04-27T00:09:00.000+05:302006-04-27T00:09:00.000+05:30The red top photo is gorgeous! Poison, bummer.Wh...The red top photo is gorgeous! Poison, bummer.<BR/><BR/>What is it? <BR/><BR/>Smooch,<BR/>The Tart<BR/><BR/>BTW Great pics here!TheTarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18331641497652844780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1145949118207790042006-04-25T12:41:00.000+05:302006-04-25T12:41:00.000+05:30more coming Suresh, things are brewing in my head,...more coming Suresh, things are brewing in my head, some crackpot theories.raufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1145893381306092262006-04-24T21:13:00.000+05:302006-04-24T21:13:00.000+05:30yo rauf, this is some serious stuff about human pr...yo rauf, this is some serious stuff about human progress ... the idea of pyramids was pathetic, but not really ... will come back. feels good to blog again ...wildpichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13967012279850779612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1145810468765044402006-04-23T22:11:00.000+05:302006-04-23T22:11:00.000+05:30It was just a coincidence Ruth, never even knew th...It was just a coincidence Ruth, never even knew that there is some thing called world earth day, came to know about it thru e2d's blog. <BR/><BR/>Yes each one of us can make the difference. Nature has been providing us with all our basic needs. You will not find a single person who does not love nature, and now we have become aware that nature deserves a little more love and little more attention.raufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1145804521629428302006-04-23T20:32:00.000+05:302006-04-23T20:32:00.000+05:30These are appropriate ruminations for Earth Day (t...These are appropriate ruminations for Earth Day (this weekend), and for every day of the year. Thank you, Rauf, for all the information in this post. It is overwhelming, but I have to keep believing each one of us can make a difference. It starts with awareness, so thanks for your help with that.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1145797403080719402006-04-23T18:33:00.000+05:302006-04-23T18:33:00.000+05:30hehehe ! first of the season ?? don't worree Maya ...hehehe ! first of the season ?? don't worree Maya !! don tell me you yate the seed too. you'll be showered with pesticides. <BR/><BR/>EEEEEEEEE Mangalooru ?? Wowweee !<BR/><BR/>I am not a serious guy Maya, feel free to spray pesticides on my blograufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1145796266497000402006-04-23T18:14:00.000+05:302006-04-23T18:14:00.000+05:30gulp!I just had a mangogulp!I just had a mangoScoothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08899941712901078084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1145727660956387682006-04-22T23:11:00.000+05:302006-04-22T23:11:00.000+05:30Candy, its a great news that organic food prices h...Candy, its a great news that organic food prices have become competitive, largely because of the educated consumers demand for it. People have become aware of the health problems, and they think more of their children's future, like breast feeding has become a common practice now. <BR/><BR/>We've been using mosquito nets, then came mosquito repellants. Next genertion of mosquitos became resistant to the repellants, so do the pests. Each year stronger pesticides are used, mixed with soil. to cope with the new breed of pests.<BR/><BR/>Going back to traditional or conventional farming would be a boon to the poor farmers in India,<BR/>As they don't have o spend on fertilisers and pesticides, but unfortunately they can't afford to take such risk, one crop is a matter of life and death for them.<BR/>As the planet heals itself, once we start growing food conventional way the pests too will disappear in due course. <BR/><BR/>Since survival is still a struggle here, people go for cheaper food.<BR/>Its a struggle for me to Candy. Once organic farming becomes a common practice with the help of the government, organic produce would be affordable to all, Its still a dream now. <BR/><BR/>I don't know when things started to go wrong, is it the farming itself the way Jared Diamond puts it. thank you Candy for drawiong reader,s attention to his article. Food water and oxygen is supposed to be free for all living beings, believe me they are still abundantly available in our planet. We humans have made a simple survival very complicated.raufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1145725104674874392006-04-22T22:28:00.000+05:302006-04-22T22:28:00.000+05:30Wow Rauf, I am so pleased you wrote about all thes...Wow Rauf, I am so pleased you wrote about all these details. It is so important to talk about and share even if we cannot afford the cost of organic. I think the photos really make this post an incredible experience to read and look at. I felt like I was thereat talks too.<BR/><BR/>Look how many people responded to this post. It obviously touches us. I believe each of us knows there could be a different way to make a living and share food...but it is true we must also fit in or we will look crazy.<BR/><BR/>but more and more people are talking about food and how to grow it and share it and water too. We are communicating about mental and physical energy.<BR/><BR/>Yes,w e are all feeling tired when we don' not have enough nutrients and synthetic nutrients.<BR/><BR/>I am surprised in America organic food is now very competitively priced. It is more expensive than my home, Canada. But even Canada it is only pennies more to eat organic.<BR/><BR/>The demand for organic produce in North America by educated consummers is why the price has become competitive.<BR/><BR/>WE CAN change by COOSING how to be consummers and our money speaks to the totalitarian agrgiculture complex we all are living in.<BR/><BR/>I believe crime, rape, prostitution, corporate greed have all been born of taking food and growing it and locking it up. When we direspect food and then we will disrespect life.<BR/><BR/>Primates don't need to grow food. It grows by god and for nature, free.<BR/><BR/>Something to think about?Candy Minxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07350752657678863378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1145707412337214972006-04-22T17:33:00.000+05:302006-04-22T17:33:00.000+05:30Mr. Razib Ahmed, actually farming is considered a ...Mr. Razib Ahmed, actually farming is considered a prestigeous profession now. More and more educated people are giving up technical or other professions and taking up farming. And what you say about the poorer uneducated farmers also is true, we have 2 extremes here. Educated farmers adopt modern methods of farming, equipment or technology wise.They do not depend on the mercy of nature, They have something to fall back on when things don't go right. and they export the produce mostly. Poor farmer (most of India in other words the poor farmer is India) depends on the mercy of nature, has nothing to fall back on, always under the burden of loans, failure of monsoon kills them, and as you say, they have no choice but to migrate to a city and become labourers.raufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1145703762330240382006-04-22T16:32:00.000+05:302006-04-22T16:32:00.000+05:30The main problem that I see is that in the third w...The main problem that I see is that in the third world countries farming does not have 'prestige' as a profession and when a son or a daughter of a farmer gets high education then they do not want to be related to agriculture in anyway. As a result, the big companies and the governmental organizations can easily seduce the farmers to leave organic farming.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1145700234591739032006-04-22T15:33:00.000+05:302006-04-22T15:33:00.000+05:30Davo, We have Mohanjadaro and Harappa (indus valle...Davo, We have Mohanjadaro and Harappa (indus valley civilisation ) Agriculture and domestication of animals is hardly 6000 years old Before that only hunter gatherers.<BR/>All we do is go back to the conventional methods of farming using cow dung manure. Simple.raufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1145695168427442932006-04-22T14:09:00.000+05:302006-04-22T14:09:00.000+05:30mm, the australian aborigines managed to survive, ...mm, the australian aborigines managed to survive, and thrive, for 40,000 years in a country not condusive to 'agriculture'. <BR/><BR/>I wonder how they did that without the 'benefit' of Monsanto, Union Carbide or <A HREF="http://www.oligopolywatch.com/2004/02/01.html" REL="nofollow">ADM</A> ; "Nike", "OMO", "Palmolive", "Preen" or "PineOclean". ???Davohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02785126939071213905noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1145627880066396372006-04-21T19:28:00.000+05:302006-04-21T19:28:00.000+05:30Quite right Zarina, its all around us, same thing...Quite right Zarina, its all around us, same thing happening here, the city growing out of proportions without planning, creeping into agricultural land and the farmers driven out by the builders, I nearly sank while taking pictures of a huge hospital which was built on agricultural land. <BR/><BR/>State of Orissa one of the most fertile states of india, repeatedly invaded and occupied in the past, is surplus with food grain even today, most of it is exported, but the people are eating grass to survive and witnessed many deaths due to starvation., farmers committing suicide. Foreign currency is more important than the survival of the citizens, its sad.<BR/><BR/>I've been eating poison happily all my life. Most of the organic food produced by big time farming companies is exported. Small time farmer doesn't want to take the risk without fertilisers and pesticides. Any loss is suicidal. government and the insurance companies are not very supportive.<BR/><BR/>Please feel free to express yourself Zarina, fill the pages.<BR/>Thank you so much for your contribution.raufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1145622936838560922006-04-21T18:05:00.000+05:302006-04-21T18:05:00.000+05:30It's horrible but the only way the farmers can fee...It's horrible but the only way the farmers can feed the world today.<BR/>We as a people do not support our farmers and the government/the banks and the Rich slowly take their lands when they lose valuable crop in disasters. The Rich build homes to sell on this valuable land. Mindless to the fact one less farm means less food. Exploitation at the worse. We have seen the effects of the modifications in the size and weight of our children. A few children in canada are born with a line of fine hair down their backs. This we did not see many years ago. The hair eventually drops out. But..... its a scary thought.<BR/>I better stop her or I will be kicked out for my outbursts.<BR/>I hate cruelty and unethical/underhand behaviour but it is all around us.Zarinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09477879190329112963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1145620106369040422006-04-21T17:18:00.000+05:302006-04-21T17:18:00.000+05:30EEEEEEEEE Sundri Sonal, the rope is still on the t...EEEEEEEEE Sundri Sonal, the rope is still on the table. It hasn't moved an inch, stare harder Sonal<BR/><BR/>Lot more pomegranate ( copeed your spelling ) for you here where I sing about their virtues<BR/>http://whitesroad.blogspot.com/2005/12/good-for-you-and-little-more.html<BR/><BR/>me was eating your friend this morneeng wainright, hannibal lecter<BR/>style, he is really tasty, sings with ease, me now eating Loreena McKennit<BR/>Have to ask hannibal lecter if he was sure what he was eating was eating organic food ??raufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1145613651116622462006-04-21T15:30:00.000+05:302006-04-21T15:30:00.000+05:30hey! that pomegranate photograph i love... looking...hey! that pomegranate photograph i love... looking deliciously red and tempting and poisonous all at the same time.<BR/>i cannot see pomegranate photo without hearing eat the music in my head..sundarsonalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08025355142700074951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1145594299178010152006-04-21T10:08:00.000+05:302006-04-21T10:08:00.000+05:30That is the first thing I wanted to mention Rinsil...That is the first thing I wanted to mention Rinsila, Who ever is growing has eyes on export. Japanese are most interested as farming goes on 365 days here in India. They certify that this far, is organic and they buy from them.<BR/>Most of the organic produce is not meant for local consumption. first priority is export. You know indians, when organic food is hot selling, they'll dish out anything as organic. that is why a verification team is always present to certify organic food. <BR/>What ever little organic food is left for local consumption it is <BR/>very expensive.<BR/><BR/>No one can stop the development, any development need not be at the cost of environment. Some planning should go before the project is executed. Mindless development damages the environment. Mysore Bangalore road expansion is a recent example, used to be one of the most picturesque roads of india, with shady trees ob both sides, it was a beauty. all trees have disappeared, now the road looks like a desert highway.raufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1145560714237126592006-04-21T00:48:00.000+05:302006-04-21T00:48:00.000+05:30our problem is that govt gives support on paper. b...our problem is that govt gives support on paper. but those who have been successful are exporting to developed countries. ordinary people cannot afford it either in india or developed country. "industrialised aggriculture" including meat industry are causing a lot of damage. been reading a book on that and its been shocking. we get organic products here too, eggs from chickens not bred in captivity etc but we can't afford to have it on a regular basis. <BR/>while we are modifying other living things for our so called "benefit" we are getting modified in turn - cancer, still births, congenital diseases, miscarriages etc etc. cherian keeps fighting with me saying "environmentalist" do not support development..... give him a peice of your mind. he may listen to you.<BR/>ReeniAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1145556770327915142006-04-20T23:42:00.000+05:302006-04-20T23:42:00.000+05:30Glad to hear about your brother Imemine. We have h...Glad to hear about your brother Imemine. We have highly qualified people here but theirs is a voice in a wilderness. It will take time, or we have to wait for a disaster for things to change, and governments to open their eyes.raufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1145556540545021992006-04-20T23:39:00.000+05:302006-04-20T23:39:00.000+05:30Rinsila, I should've consulted you before writing,...Rinsila, I should've consulted you before writing, I forgot I have an environmental engineer friend. you know me, I just wrote what came to my mind., thanks for the useful details. I'll be writing more on this subject. I'll consult you before I write, Idiot I am. <BR/><BR/>Govt. is encouraging only on paper but the poor farmers don't want to take risks they want loss coverage. Insurance companies are reluctant. Back to square one. please give me some more details Rinsila.raufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1145555983001250662006-04-20T23:29:00.000+05:302006-04-20T23:29:00.000+05:30Aree ghodee boo, vegetable garden is a good idea, ...Aree ghodee boo, vegetable garden is a good idea, but you have to depend on the supermarket for other products. Milk and milk products are other problem which I have not touched. Run with the crowd ghodee boo, we have no other choice.<BR/>ummmmmmmmmmmmmma dee say hi Her majesty the queen, tell her your problem.raufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com