“It is in exchanging the gifts of the earth that you shall find abundance and be satisfied. Yet unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.” Kahil Gibran, The Prophet. There are many seed savers exchanges around the world. Some are formal, others …
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corporate control
Since 1970 multinational companies have bought or taken control of nearly a thousand, once independent, seed companies. The purchase of Pioneer Hi-Bred in 1999, the world’s largest seed company, for $7.7 billion by Du-Pont, is part of a trend of concentration of power in the life sciences industry. The $23 billion global seed trade is …
terminator & related technologies
The terminator On the 3rd of the March 1998 The US Department of Agriculture and cotton seed breeders Delta and Pine Land Company acquired US patent 5,723,765 for their “Technology Protection System” (TPS). This system for genetically engineering a suicide mechanism into seeds of the next generation was dubbed the “terminator” technology.. On May 11th …
spouts to eat
Benefits / conditions / containers / what to do / what to sprout / resources “Seeds don’t just have to be planted… sprout them for delicious crops of organic, super nutritious, zero-air-mile salad all year round – the fastest urban gardening you can get..” s p r o u t s a r e . …
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guerilla gardening
Armed with trowels, seeds, and vision, the idea is to garden everywhere. Anywhere. An urban adventure at the threshold of nature and culture, taking back our own time and space, transforming the urban desert, into a provider of food and a space where people meet face to face to discuss and participate directly in the …
patents
Ownership “rights” over all life forms, from genes to whole organisms are being handed over to private corporations. . Biodiversity is being reduced to genetic information and being patented so fast that most patent applications are purely speculative. A patent is a form of monopoly right to profit from a product for a fixed term. …
mayday 2000
Less than a year ago, on June the 18th, financial centres on every continent were rocked by people resisting the devastation of their lives by a bankrupt economic system. Five months later on November the 30th, as the legislators of global capitalism the WTO (World Trade Organisation) tried to meet in Seattle, tens of thousands shut down …