by Kelli Bowen
I LOVE autumn in North Dakota: the temperatures, the colors, the festivals, the food. I can’t get enough. The leaves are turning and falling from the trees.
Oh, the trees! Those poor trees being assaulted by chemicals on the ground and in the sky. They are making the trees die from the top down.
Now…the problem with this theory is that trees can also suffer from crown decline or dieback from lots of things like: drought, too much water, soil composition issues, fungus, insects, vascular issues within the trees, or strong winds.
Boo, Kelli! What about the trees dying from the bottom up, then??? You’re right. That could be something totally different, or something slightly different: insects, drought, lack of sunlight reaching the bottom leaves.
Have you witnessed the beauty of trees dying? It’s pretty epic. Again, for the most part, they’re not really dying. They’re going into dormancy.
No GM crops can be produced without USDA approval and if you can’t trust the government…this may not be helping my point.
Now, if you want to come after cloud-seeders, and GMOs, and every other scientific breakthrough, you’d better make sure you aren’t using any scientific breakthroughs yourself.
If you know an insulin-dependent diabetic, like my dad was, you may be surprised to know that insulin is a genetically modified bacteria. If it weren’t for insulin, my dad may not have made it to adulthood, so I may not even be alive. I know several people who attribute their day-to-day survival to this particular GMO.
Then there’s Botox. Oh, Botox, you beautiful beauty, Boss! Botox is a drug made from a toxin that causes botulism, but in small doses, it can help tame those WTH lines, so don’t try to furrow your unfurrowable brow at scientific breakthroughs when you’re using other scientific breakthroughs to paralyze your face to try to look younger.
Now if you want to shoot toxins in your face, inject GMO bacteria in your body to live, enjoy non-naturally occurring grapes without the annoyance of seeds, you do you, boo! It’s science.
As for me, I’ll be over here watching the trees die and the contrails in the sky, with a smile on my face and I may or may not worry about trying to minimize my own WTH lines.
Kelli makes her home in Billings County with her husband, two daughters and a dog. She works for North Dakota's #1 tourist destination by day and tries to be an alright mom, wife, friend, and writer by night.
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