Agricultural Biodiversity: Ag Biodiversity

» Marshseed - Ag Biodiversity

Thanks for the thorough article, Marie. You covered most of the points I would make, and I especially like your emphasis on seed politics. Sorry you seem not to have much response.

This patenting of all lifeforms and parts thereof is an abomination that will give a few profit-driven entities control over biological systems. Agriculture, as practice by most of the world's farmers, is primarily biological (or ecological) with strong cultural content and process. Their abilities to freely grow, save and exchange seed and livestock are fundamental to their relationship to their society.

Globalization thrives on uniformity and lack of borders and barriers to the free movement of capital and commodities. In this system seeds and their uses are best limited to a few widely adapted varieties grown with proprietary materials and serving products to be fed into food industrial systems. In this system farmers are best kept as serfs, tenet farmers, or moved off the land to attain scales of economy.

NOT

Marsh

-- posted by Marshseed