A Seedless Fruit yields once

Words cannot express how happy I am that you are so well informed on this subject. So sad that so many others are not. And your rhetorical at the end speaks volumes. No more need be added to it. Yours, Chuck PS: And I particularly like your "cancerously corrupted."

hit home .. here here I second bardsdad wish more people did know what they do to our food .. good write Richard well done .. Love and light JayC x

How much do we know, there are so many conflicting explanations of everything now that its impossible to understand it all, and so many of the explanations are made by those rubbing their hands together as they do so! Yours Ann of Norway

Nothing worse than a rich fuck with his hand on a button.... ------------------------------------------------------------------ "Until that ‘morrow render unto me That which is mine my stipend well deserved The fairest flower of your progeny Your sons, your daughters your hopes and your dreams The cruel consequence of your conceit" - Steve Earle

so we get our veggies fast but the blooms in the bay they last cows grow big and large and our cells get supercharged antibiotics drives our immune psychotic pushing out the ordinary till one day they're extraordinary we gather up the wind without pollution waste or poisons on some farm community cultures they fight the inbred scene as the bottom swiftly drops and the cycle turns out lean Great Poem Moonman yet again Love your work!!! You are a master

Now here a subject I can sink my teeth into!!! LOL I tell you, it will get worst before it gets better, I don't care what the Government says, there is not enough over sight on the food and drug administration. Why can't the government hire one of these Green organizations as the oversight! the answer to that is that then the politician won't be able pocket an money from special interest. Let me not go off on a rant!!! this is your poem, and I have to say its on point! thanks, Eddie Life is like a railroad track that leads to many junctures, if you stand on the track Love comes speeding along and runs you over!! Splat!!!!

Very good work. I like the opening line "We are lab rats", very powerful and though provoking. It forces us to think about things that we often would prefer not to; about things we would rather look the other way on. Good stuff.:) ~Sora

but at the cost of how many This line must pierce eachone's heart. i am with you on this concept. how nicely the cruelsom has been brought out. thanks shan

Richard A very powerful truth. The Irony is, We must eat to live but what we eat is killing us.

Loved your poem Richard~! Some on this side of the state cannot pull from their wells to water their gardens [contamined from General Motors years ago] Water, Air, and Food polution all a major concern to all of us! It seems the major players always reap the benefits and the little guys pay for it as usual~ _____________________________________________________ Income-tax forms should be more realistic by allowing the taxpayer to list "Uncle Sam" as a dependent Anonymous

Richard this one packs a real punch. A lot of people I know grow their own veg now, for financial reasons as well as the whole, know what you're eating thing. Naomi and I are attempting to grow tomatoes (I hate them in their raw state but thought it'd be good to teach her where food comes from and it gives us lots of opportunity to get muddy and wet lol) any way I'm digressing (no suprise there then!) your poem Moonman is very topical, highlights an important issue and has a really modern kind of feel for me, yes, punchy! I like it :) much love b x

agree, is scary about the cost and the not truly knowing what kind of consequences they may get in the end. Time, a big factor, that doesn’t yield the results until Many times it is too late. I do like the choice of organically grown products, no pesticides, but, if the seeds are altered already…. Hmmm, still that unknown factor. Wish we could excise all the cancerously corrupted! Always, Tonya

A thought provoking write. I didn't think much about this subject until I read Ruth Ozeki's "All Over Creation" which is about the engineering of the Idaho potato. This is an amazingly entertaining book, try it. After reading that I heard that this particular breed of Idaho potato became the most popular for commercial french fries. Then I heard it was linked to obesity, for some reason, more than other potatoes, something to do with the carbohydrate not registering on the brain when full, therefore, eat till you drop syndrome. What will they do to us next? Yours, Deelilah

Richard, I love this write for its unusual topic. we need more of that here. and I just have to agree with Jess! always a pleasure to read your thoughts, my dear Moonman your Proprietress

Richard Lab Rats Wonderful my friend for those who truely see what is real in the world. Oh how true why cannot they let nature be true nature as it should be without chemical aids etc. As a young girl we grew vegetables in the yard we could not afford to go and by from the shops. There is nothing like picking the herbs the vegetables as you prepare the meal so fresh and the feeling you have of growing it your self without the aid of chemicals. Organic before the word became fashionable. just hard work digging the earth clearing the ground preparing the earth and plant the seed. It is a feeling you cannot bye. Hard work but so rewarding. When my children were younger I had a large yard we planted potatoes - runner beans- tomatoes- cabages etc. My children had their own patches and they would go out and water every day waiting for their wonders to appear. The joy on their faces when they could see the potatoes and carrot straight from the ground the brought them to the kitchen so gently and washed and prepared them for the meal we were about to eat then the sadness of eating what they have grown as if they had killed them.. But they tendered the garden with love waiting for the next generation. To now that the goverment want to force feed the animals so much all is contamiated. Some kept in awefull conditions never to be free to roam in the sunshine and rain. But the bye products then infects the human race. I prefere nature as it is in all it glory good and bad but it is natural. We do not want to be lab rats. Electric Blue I could go on but i have said enough

This is great Richard, well done for puting this out there. All that I would have said has been covered well above so just have my congratulations you good thing. Oh how I love the unfolding of folk here, you shine for me more & more. Thank you xx~ Anni ~~~ "... sometimes I hear my voice - And it's been here .... Silent All These Years" ~Tori Amos.