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"kzin" wrote:

On 25-Jan-2008, Billy wrote:

Over half the seeds sold for gardens already have copyrights on them.

If you want a grim vision of where patented GM seeds is leading the world
see if you can find the short story "The Calorie Man". It takes place in a
world where all seeds are patented and farmers are subject to having their
fields destroyed if they use, even accidentally, any seed not purchased from
licensed sellers. Plants have been modified so that they do not produce
seed and so new seed must be purchased at the start of every growing season.
Producing your own seed, i.e. natural farming, is impossible. Trying to
farm using old non-GM seeds is impossible due to the GM predators developed
by the agribusiness to ensure only plants grown from their seed stock have
any chance of survival.

Fiction yes, but not all that far fetched.

ml

One of six short stories is Calorie Man.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/2hwugz

US ~$16.

Bill who no longer has local pull plants in my area. But had wild
turkey's drinking from our pond 10 feet away from our kitchen right now.

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