miamei 73's Profile

I would have any problem with GMO if I could decide by myself if I will eat it or not.
But I can´t.
For examle, you can never be sure to buy honey without GMO. No bee can differentiate between rape and GMO-rape.
And whats about fields with normal rape and an GMO-rape over the street? Is the oil from the normal rape really free from GMO?
And whats about Monsanto and the stopp of farming MON 810 in Germany by law?
Whats about Monsanto and their V-GURT? and the suicides of Cotton-Farmers in India?
GMO is not only a story of genetic food but also a story of more and more poverty in the third world.
I´m living in Germany, every food made from GMO must be marked, nobody buys it, so GMO is no big Problem in Europe but in the rest of the world
http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/

I´m German and I will never understand, why the front porch in US is often much more bigger than the backyard.
We lived a few month in FL. A very big and only green frontyard and in the back only a pool, no plants and no place for a table and some chairs.
In Germany it´s completely contrary. You have a big "Garten" where you have your terrace, with table and chairs, often with a barbecue-grill made with bricks, a kichen-garden, a sandpit for the children or a swing and you have the interaction with your neighbours over the fence.
In summer, the garden ist our living-room from breakfast to the glass of wine before bed-time.
And you are sure, that your toddler isn´t running on the street.
I would never swep.

In Bavaria (in Germany you can get pretzels only in the south: Bavaria and Swabia) you eat pretzels only cold, never warm.
The classic pretzel is with butter on it. Or with two Bavarian veal sausages.
With old pretzels from day before you can make dumplings http://www.genial-lecker.de/archiv/2007/07/rezept-brezenknoedel-1.html for the sunday-roast.

If it´s too hot inside, why don´t you open the windows? It´s getting faster and it´s cheaper and better for the environment.

the german constitution says:
"Property entails obligations. Its use shall also serve the public good"

I´m living in a unesco world heritage city, many us-citizens are coming to visit our city.
But the people, living in the city and own houses there are obliged by law to conserve the houses. The rents in this houses are very expensive because its very special to live in those houses - built in 1475 before america was descovered- with a modern bath and modern heating.
And i think it´s a public good to conserve old houses for the next generations.