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Seeds: Hope for the future

There is only one real hope for our physical being on earth, although there are may false source hope like the stimulus that we got when we borrow money or taking intoxicating substance. But those source of hope always fails. Because always we have to pay back the money and interest or have to suffer through terrible hangovers. The only one real hope for our physical being on earth is the hope embodied in seeds. You see without seeds there is no future.

Today 75% of the seeds are concentrated in 4 corporations. Monsanto (US), Dupont (US), Syngenta (Switzerland) and Groupe Limagrain (France). And two of those corporations, Monsanto and DuPond fighting each other in court for more. Monsanto is charging DuPond of being dishonest disingenuous and downright deceitful. DuPond is charging Monsanto for unfairly distracting attention from the public battle over the concentration in seed industry. This concentration of seeds and hope in the hands of 4 companies leads us to ask does this seed giants does strengthen or weaken our food chain.

Steve Hixson is Seed Conditioner in Claremont, Illinois. Farmers call seed Conditioner/cleaner to process their seeds. They remove weed seeds and other debris and finding good seed. They clean the seeds. For their work farmers pay for the seed conditioners. If you look at history of the seed companies you can see that all these seed companies are started as seed cleaners. Now the companies are into the business of controlling the farmers. They actually hijacked our entire genetic infrastructure.

In 1930 US brought 10,000 types of soybean seeds from china. From that time this genetic infrastructure was developed and maintained using US tax dollars. In 1970 congress allowed private industry to borrow it. They used conventional breading techniques such as cross breading and back breading etc to come up with very specific genetic sequence. Then they are allowed to market under their label. But it never implied that they own them. During 1970s there was no plant patents. This is a public infrastructure like road system.

In 2000 there was a supreme court order in J.E.M. Ag Supply vs. Pioneer. Hybrid International case. The judge Clarence Thomas was a former attorney for biotech giant Monsanto. The supreme court order allowed patents can be issued for plants under 35 U.S.C. 101. This was overly broader opinion that open the doors for all these seed companies to raid all universities and pull all the seeds from the shelves and basically they committed fraud by patenting them. They actually stole these genes from the public. Some of them they patented are 20 or 30 years old. There is nothing new or unique in a 30 year old verity.

No new seed companies can evolve. They stolen the infrastructure. They put 99% of the seed conditioner out of the business. Now no new seed companies can emerge. Only thing happening is the consolidation.

Percy Schmeiser Canola farmer. He saved and conditioned Canola seeds for 45 years to get a seed which is ideally conditioned to grow in his environment. But Monsanto’s Roundup ready Canola seed invaded hi field and he lost his 45 years of genetics and Monsanto own his farm. Those seeds has the ability to contaminate the ecosystem. GMO is an invasive species.

Think about this situation. You are driving a car and you passed by a workshop where they are painting a car. The window of the workshop was open. Some how the paint drift out of the atmosphere. some fell on your car. The paint was patented. Since it is on your car technically its a patent infringement. So who ever own the patent of the paint now owns your car. Thats happened to farmer Percy Schmeiser.

Soybean has 66,000 gene. They inserted a single gene in the back. In most advanced case also just 800-860 genes that may be manipulating. in the 66,000 genes, even though complete genome is mapped, company dont have any idea what their function is. same happens with Bt Corn. You consume this. Nobody knows its long term effect.

These companies are all professional thieves and lairs.

The seed companies ask farmers to sign a user’s agreement before they open the seed bag. That document is written by dozens of attorney. having more than 30 pages. Farmers are contacted with seed dealers. They are not patent attorney. They misrepresent terms of the users agreement. When the farmer opens that bag they actually giving up several constitutional rights. They can not save their seeds for the next year.

Agriculture in the heart land had turned into a police state. Last year Steve Hixson was travelling farm to farm taking care farmers who want to save seed from one year to next, monsanto was tracking him using a gps device on his car and following him using their own satellite. They use it also for auto steer technology for tractors. They sell it bundle. They visits Steve’s customers. They have ground vehicles. Private investigators are asked to interrogate Steve’d customers. Steve spent 45 minutes on farm. After that they drive high speed behind and take photographs. Farmers are afraid. Infrastructure gone. People dont have control on seeds.

All these are happened because of the sponsorship from the govt.

Government is backing them. Monsanto people are in judicial positions, FDA, USDA. Michael Taylor, Monsanto’s number 2 man used to be head of FDA, in Obama transition team.

Monsanto is a 100 year old company. During world war II and Vietnam war they manufactured chemical weapon. After that they modified these chemicals for the farms. Thats the evolution of the farm chemical. So many people have died because of this. Everything they ever produced is about death. PCB, Agent Orenge, RBTA. They dont care who they run over. They dont care how they do. Its all about power.
They consume state and federal bureaucracy. Their former employees are in judicial positions. They use patent laws to control farmer’s crops.

– from metrofarm.com

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