Nationally known environmentalist alarms Monsanto - Is this story being suppressed?

[truedelphi]

Anyone who knows mushrooms knows Paul Stamets.

But what many people do not yet know is that Mr Stamets has filed for patent protection for a significant and revolutionary idea.

However doing so has come with a steep price. He is now being slimed by most pesticide manufacturers, and the entire idea he proposes has been blacklisted by TV and newspaper journalists.

Mushroom researcher and activist challenges Monsanto

In 2006, a patent was granted to a man named Paul Stamets. Though Paul is the world’s leading mycologist, his patent has received very little attention and exposure. Why is that? Stated by executives in the pesticide industry, this patent represents “the most disruptive technology we have ever witnessed.” And when the executives say disruptive, they are referring to it being disruptive to the chemical pesticides industry.

What has Paul discovered? The mycologist has figured out how to use mother nature’s own creations to keep insects from destroying crops. It’s what is being called SMART pesticides. These pesticides provide safe & nearly permanent solution for controlling over 200,000 species of insects – and all thanks to the ‘magic’ of mushrooms.

Paul does this by taking entomopathogenic Fungi (fungi that destroys insects) and morphs it so it does not produce spores. In turn, this actually attracts the insects who then eat and turn into fungi from the inside out!

This patent has potential to revolutionize the way humans grow crops – if it can be allowed to reach mass exposure.

Full article is at below link:

http://prn.fm/he-holds-the-patent-that-could-destroy-monsanto-and-change-the-world/

[tymorial]

1. Sadly, he'll be squashed like those very bugs.

Sigh.

[truedelphi]

5. You express

A very legitimate fear.

[TexasBushwhacker]

2. The demand for organic food is big and getting bigger

If this could pass the organic test, I would think there would be enough demand from large organic growers to make it commercially viable.

BUT what is its effect on bees? Is there a way to use it that doesn't affect bees?

[truedelphi]

8. Good question.

Will try and find out some answers.

[Tatiana La Belle]

3. Is there something we can do to help this man?

My fear is that they will try to destroy him with false allegations or, failing that, try to kill him.

[truedelphi]

6. That is a good thought.

Will check around with my more active activist friends and see if there is a movement that is on going in support of him .

[Tatiana La Belle]

11. Thanks.

It sounds like he is going to need money and protection.

[wildbilln864]

4. k & r & thank you!

[truedelphi]

7. Your welcome.

And thank you for the K and r.

[Brickbat]

10. "Paul does this by taking entomopathogenic Fungi (fungi that destroys insects) and morphs it..."

From what I see in the patent, this includes genetically modifying them. I could be reading it wrong.

[KamaAina]

12. This one's been around the track a few times

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026786766

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026512180

[truedelphi]

13. It was interesting to read the comments made in the first link

Luckily for my sanity, my OP caught the attention of mostly environmental types. While the responses in the first link are clearly some of those that I often call the "Thrills" (which rhymes with the word describing what I really think of them.)

that being said, I liked most of all the comments made in the following article itself:

http://exopermaculture.com/2015/02/28/paul-stamets-patents-universal-biopesticide-that-big-ag-calls-the-most-disruptive-technology-that-we-have-ever-witnessed/

especially the description of how the mushroom fungicide allows the insects to live long and prosper, just not at all around the actual plants of the crop the farmer is growing!

Why is the thriving of insects a good thing? One thing people forget is that a "pest" that farmers spray for might be beneficial to some bird or other critter that enjoys eating them. So when we do this blanket spraying of everything, the result is what has happened on my property (Which is not owned by me but by my landlord.)

The one half acre is a virtual dead zone, without any frogs or toads, and I haven't seen many snakes this year either. All because my landlord believes that it is a fate worse than death to not spray his property with Bayer (bee killer based) pesticides.

For two years in a row, the environment and I won out - he stupidly sprayed when the wind was over 12 miles an hour. The result was that we had frogs and toads and many more birds and also bees. (The high winds made it impossible for the pesticides to hurt my immediate environment, although their manufacture and their dispersal into the atmosphere was not a good thing at all.)