This first week of June has been the coldest week I have experienced here. At night / morning 0-3 degrees during the day between 8 and 13 and just not a big opportunity to flee before the temperatures. You can cover it at night but nice and take ne hot water bottle (which I have risen this week), but inevitably this has its limits, that is below the chin. And so you wake up every morning because with these temperatures with a bit of neck pain, which try to be but after breakfast with hot coffee again.
This week began on Monday (1.6.) With an interview with Mr. Modesto, a major soybean producer with 500 acres in the country. He was a super warm person and very nice and even though his name I always wanted to "Domesto" instead of "Modesto" and even though I make it just even 10 years too many had given (at the beginning of the interview I always ask the age of the interviewees and in Portuguese I confuse more often times the sixties to the seventies and so I noted with 74 instead of the actual 64 years ... ups! But he seems to have it taken from me not :)). But he was completely smitten general of GM soy and soybean farms and saw all very optimistic.
And he was far too far from the only one of GM soya was great. The vast majority found it really ne very good thing, with certain restrictions, of course, but they're seeing it as something positive. And well, you talk so, as a small budding environmental scientist with these people who are totally mad and soya can these people still can not find odious views, because they are basically good-hearted people when you get to know them so. And those with whom I have spoken to now represent all the interests not of Monsanto & Co, but to make the same for other reasons, mainly just because the production of GM soya is (still) cheaper than that of conventional soybeans and the sale price is the same whether for conventional or GM soya ... and some even argue with the fact that it's better for the environment because it ceases to 5 different hammer herbicides must be applied but "only" Round-up / glyphosate. This has
me busy for a while, otherwise it is the farmers who grow GM crops, as "evil people" before and then learn to know these people and realize that there is nothing diabolical turn on them. There are other reasons why they grow the genetically modified soya and if those reasons were not good, then farmers would not take the fact into account that they give into the hands of the multinationals.
the way, there were however a few precautions are taken: In the FUNDACEP, pretty much the largest agricultural research facility in Rio Grande do Sul, are planted anew each year, conventional soybean varieties, and harvested the seeds, even if their seeds in Moment as well want to have as anyone to get the genetic resources in the event the Monsanto the bar of the charges ("Royalties") for the use of "their" gene of the Roundup Ready soybeans and also for their total herbicide Roundup to highly depends or other problems occur. In this way, the very least, in theory, be returned to the conventional soybeans. could
There are of course the objection that the genome of the genetically modified plants that mix of wild plants and that of the native species of plants, which in principle is correct (eg that happen namely Bt corn in Mexico and even though there not even grown Bt corn, but from the United States is imported and sold there ....) Only in the case of soy in Brazil and in South America, this risk is quite low, because the native of China, soybean is anyway not a native plant here in nature and has no close relatives in which they could "interfere". Good, but this is only a problem that one can exclude the case of GM soya in Brazil.
(Who's interested: here's a documentary on Arte about Monsanto's pesticides and genetic manipulation)
Oh, and just do not believe you safe from GM soya, which is produced here. Europe, along with China, the largest buyer Brazil's soy and cattle breeding (and it is meant any livestock: cattle, pigs, chickens) in Lower Saxony is also a big presence ... However, it is only here in Rio Grande do Sul so that almost 100% of farmers grow GM soya. In Mato Grosso, the state with the largest soybean production in Brazil, so far as "only" 50% of the soybean acreage cultivated with GM soya. Upward trend, however ....
on Wednesday (3.6.) I was really busy, so I sent out even equal to 2 interviews: In the morning with Júlio, Ijuí the Agriculture Secretary of the city. This interview was also very nice and interesting and also a very open-minded Júlio Once we have continued to interview men talked even about 1 hour (although I was thinking the whole time that I rob the good man's time, but it was mainly he talked so far ...). And in the afternoon with the Volnei EMATER / RS Regional, whose office is, fortunately, only 300m away from my Pensao (for the other interviews I have, most often, nearly crossing the entire city). The Ematik is a private company, but it is the state paid for it to advise the farmers and provide them with know-how. The interview with Volnei was one of the interviews, where I learned the most and understood, because he has made super a lot, before the interview and after the interview and by him I've got a book for my topic:) and I have talked with him after the interview a bit. Many of my interviewees are quite curious, because as it is in Germany or tell me about the things they were doing when they had been to Germany.
I could now repeat again, that Volnei was super nice, but I leave it now simply a matter of saying that most people with whom I have interviewed, were very interesting people (otherwise they would probably all even in the positions where they are) and that they were all really nice. This is now the next and for the Persons who are called in the following.
Well here are a few Fotoleins (even if they do not fit the context):
scene near the Pensao
The sun shines on here mostly, but it is just not as real warm, except in the blazing sun , as one of the otherwise Brasiien knows 
This here is the "dining room". When I took the photo that was just discovered breakfast (and I was probably pretty much the first that came to breakfast), so the table is on the wall, because people are coming anyway, just a few drops at breakfast, because one does not need so much space. To Lunch and dinner, the table is then moved to the center. Right shows the original wooden shutters from the house to which the dining room and the kitchen were added in the background.
And that's Dona Use's kitchen, where our food is always made.
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