Video: Glyphosate and GM threaten monarch butterflies

You may be aware that bees are under serious threat due to pesticides and other toxins in the environment. Likewise, the monarch butterfly risks becoming endangered, as genetically engineered corn and soya and other genetically modified crops have largely eliminated the monarch butterfly's sole food and breeding source, the milkweed. Glyphosate-based herbicides also destroy soil, plant, animal, and human health. A video explaining the plight of monarch butterflies as well as what you can do, is included with this article.

A group of scientists and writers are urging Mexican, American, and Canadian leaders to commit to restoring the monarch’s migration habitat. The proposal calls for planting milkweed all along the migratory path through the US; between fields, in ditches, along roadsides, and in public areas.

For those who live in North America, you can help by planting milkweed in your garden. You can also sign this petition asking the Environmental Protection Agency, US Department of Agriculture and President Obama to protect the monarch butterfly's breeding habitat by stopping approval of glyphosate-resistant genetically engineered crops.

It is thus vitally important that glyphosate usage, along with other pesticides, herbicides and GMO foods be banned. It is thus important that factory farming is also eliminated. An all natural wholesome balanced diet along with a healthy active lifestyle is the way to go, supporting organic farmers, honest labelling, animal welfare, real food and of course life on earth itself. Thus, it is recommended to eat organic where one can, and avoid GM or pesticide-laden food.

In addition to checking that the food is certified as organic, wish to avoid supporting those who oppose honest labelling of food when you, this poster shows who lobbied against the I-522 Right to Know campaign (a referendum in Washington state calling for honest labelling of food) and to know who to support in buying their produce. Even if one doesn't live in the USA, one can still avoid supporting the "lobbyists" by avoiding their goods. One can also check for the relevant labelling that the food is certified as organic in your country when buying food, for example in the UK by the Soil Association, in France by Agriculture Biologique, in Germany by Ökologischer Landbau - specifically one looks for a seal called das Bio-Siegel, "the organic seal", and in the USA by the USDA. EU countries also have an additional EU organic logo in addition to their national organic logo or seal.

Original source: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/03/04/monarch-butterfly.aspx