title: americas shrimp imports being injected with dangerous chemicals  just to add weight
text: this smart harmless pesticide patent could take down monsanto and change the world 
  wednesday november   by j d heyes tags mushrooms  monsanto  pesticides naturalnews is bioagriculture giant monsanto king of genetically modified foods and seeds about to suffer an irreversible decline while the planet earth gets a huge chemical reprievewell it may be a bit too early to declare the st louisbased corporation dead in the water but that day may soon be upon us thanks to a nifty new pesticide patent that would make bioag chemicals unnecessaryas reported by the website anonymous  one man who has dedicated his life to the study of mushrooms may have just stumbled upon the one invention that will dramatically change the way we protect food crops from voracious pestspaul stamets has unearthed medical cure after cure and he says the key to saving the planet can be found in the mushroomstamets one of the worlds leading mycologists  if not the top researcher of fungi  filed a patent in  that has since been all but ignored why because most of his research has been viewed as hostile to conventional industries including the pesticide industry anonymous notes that some executives of the pesticide industry have remarked that the patent he filed was the most disruptive they had ever seen kills pests naturally and with zero impact on the environment and indeed a read of the patent reveals a remarkable claimthe present invention relates to the use of fungal mycelium as a biopesticide more particularly the invention relates to the control and destruction of insects including carpenter ants fire ants termites flies beetles cockroaches and other pests using fungal mycelia as both attractant and infectious agent the patent saysin other words fungus that can be present on crops will both attract destructive pests and then infect and kill them after they have eaten it in his patent stamets claims that more than one fungus can be used in combination can be dried or freezedried then packaged and reactivated for use as an effective bioinsecticideno more chemicals no more spraying no more need for monsantos chemicalfirst approach to growing our foodin his patent stamets noted that the widespread use of chemical pesticides is a primary cause of a number of secondary environmental problems that occur besides the death of targeted pests they include soil poisoning the toxifying of underlying water tables and aquifers as well as the pollution of surface water due to runoffin addition they lead to increases in cancer allergies neurological diseases immune disorders even the deaths of some agricultural workers and consumers have been linked to the use of chemical pesticidesincreasingly regulated and even banned in some countries chemical pesticides like monsantos roundup with the cancercausing primary ingredient glyphosate  have become so dangerous that many communities are scrambling for natural solutions to pest problems who knew mushrooms could be so lethal to pests this guy did compounding these problems many pest type or vermin insects have developed a broad spectrum of resistance to chemical pesticides resulting in few commercially available pesticides that are effective without thorough and repeated applications the patent says in addition to being largely ineffective and difficult and costly to apply chemical pesticides present the further disadvantage of detrimental effects on nontarget species resulting in secondary pest outbreaksbut his invention he wrote offers the agriculture industry an environmentally benign alternative to insect control by working to attract insects that latent preconidial mycelium that is fresh dried or freezedried that later infects and kills the hostinfected insects will then carry the fungal hyphae back to the central colony then disperse the fungal pathogen even furtherin essence he wrote fungal mycelium is both a baitattractant as well as a food insecticide and all without harming one thing in the environmentits a harmless pesticide that works without genetically modifying our food poisoning our earth and filling humans with toxins using just mushroomsnow  who will step up and market it you can bet it wont be monsanto sources