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To: DoughtyOne

We many not believe in climate change as anthropogenic. I’ve found it difficult to believe that a couple hundred years of industrialization could possibly do the damage to this resilient Earth that some are suggesting, and believe that the current hoopla is largely a politically- and ideologically-driven method of economic redistribution. But, still: Stuff Happens, and CAN happen.

Seed saving is one of the things I’ve been interested in as a retirement ‘job’.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_saving

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_library

http://www.seedsavers.org/mission


12 posted on 05/19/2017 5:36:26 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Thanks for the mention and links.

When it comes to seeds, my biggest concern is not global warming. It’s seed companies that genetically engineer seeds that do not produce viable seed plants and are cannibalistic, for lack of a better term.

These genetically engineered seeds grow to be large plants, whose seeds are not viable, that are then cross-pollinated with plants that are not genetically engineered, but then take on the characteristics of the engineered seed plants.

Then the seed manufacturers try to claim their proprietary seeds have been ripped off. Not true.

What we could wind up with eventually is a devastated food crop that can’t reproduce. Then what happens when something cataclysmic does happen, and our food is gone?

Seeds that produce plants that are not fertile, should be banned.


15 posted on 05/19/2017 5:44:45 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Happy days are here again!)
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