Paul Edward Stamets is an American mycologist, author and advocate of bioremediation and medicinal mushrooms. Paul has a B.S., Mycology, Biology, Microscopy from The Evergreen State College. He filed a patent in 2001 that was purposely given little attention. In the words of pesticide industry, this patent represents “The most disruptive technology that we have ever witnessed.” The biopesticides described in the patent reveals a near permanent, safe solution for over 200,000 species of insects and it all comes from a mushroom.
This patent has potential to revolutionize the way humans grow crops!
This literally is a paradigm shift away from the entire idea of pesticides. Instead of having an aim to kill all problematic insect, a farmer could simply disperse a solution of pre-sporulation fungi amongst the crops. The insects would then simply live their lives around the crops paying no attention to them.
To tolerate the use of pesticides in modern agriculture is to deny evidence proving its detrimental effects against the environment. Such ignorance really can no longer be tolerated. For example, can you imagine a world without bees? Monsanto's chemical concoctions which are being sprayed all over farmers' fields around the world are attributed to the large-scale bee die off.
On a bigger scale, GMO food and pesticides are merely symptoms of an opposite consciousness that is rapidly changing. Put another way, these symptoms are the unwanted gifts from out of control corporations that, by definition, have no empathy towards the needs, health, or life.
Monsanto generates $16 billion dollars per year (as reported in 2014), so I hope Paul will not have an accident in the near future...
Mushrooms might also prove to be one of the best solutions to clean up the mess that fossil fuels are doing to our planet!
Paul has also discovered that a certain strain of mushroom, can actually eat oil and other pollution! Not just absorb them, which would be helpful in itself. No, actually absorb, then break down oil and gas spills, and turn them into carbohydrates! Paul has developed a mushroom ‘sandbag’, essentially a sandbag with soil and mushrooms in it, that can be placed down hill from chemical, or industrial runoff to capture pollution before it makes it into our water supplies and rivers. The vision is to use these worldwide, anywhere there is toxic runoff water, to clean up our water supply before it makes its way to the sea.