[Terrapreta] Roundup

[Nikolaus Foidl]

Dear Michael¨

I have read to much about and I see on daily basis what it can do. I do not
store evidence for discussions but try to get the information when I have a
bit more time. What is happening in this area is similar to what happened to
the tobacco industries in the last 30 years, denying until the last
cigarette that cigarettes are harmful for the health and years later we all
got a glimpse through some insiders whose blow the whistle how the
industries was spending billions to cover up the medical findings just to go
on with business as usual. Same is happening now !!! With all agrochemicals
not only herbicides. We should for the meantime go back to Terra Preta.

I repeat and generalize, if charcoal is as well a adsorber and absorber for
all those chemicals and serves as a temporal storage of un degraded
chemicals and releases those to soil and plants and keeps the chain of
reintroduction of  un degraded chemicals going, we have to think again about
the role of charcoal in industrial agriculture.

Best regards Nikolaus

 




On 5/26/08 1:00 PM, "terrapreta-request at bioenergylists.org"
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> Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 21:59:12 +1000
> From: "Michael Bailes" <michaelangelica at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] No till faming
> To: MFH <mfh01 at bigpond.net.au>
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> Don't misunderstand me I am not fond of roundup et al., either but the
> emotive argument you make won't stop it being used.
> You need some hard science.
> m
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> 2008/5/25 MFH <mfh01 at bigpond.net.au>:
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>>  Bear in mind that "weeds are spectacularly successful plants, for which
>> we haven't yet found an economic use".
>> 
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>> And, apropos of weeds and Roundup: Before Roundup, coconut and cocoa
>> plantations in PNG controlled grasses and weeds by labourers using a sarrif
>> (a spring steel blade a metre l
>>