Today, multinational seed companies (Monsanto, Dupont, Syngenta, Limagrain, Bayer ...) try to monop

Nothing and no one is above the truth Home Categories International Political Economy maison Ecology - conso - biodiversity - Health Energy - Social Psychology - Social Science - Technology - Web - Research Domestic Politics and Climate Earth Astronomy - Unusual Space - strange and human stupidity S 'Subscribe Contact
Biodiversity is in danger, and our world. Did you know that a century, 75% of cultivated edible species have disappeared (FAO figures)? Modern society has succeeded in eradicating thousands of plants that accompanied us and fed us since the dawn of time.
Today, multinational seed companies (Monsanto, Dupont, Syngenta, Limagrain, Bayer ...) try to monopolize seeds, to privatize the living and take control of that plant farmers and gardeners, and, through this the essence of what makes us live.
As always, farmers have collected, preserved and replanted seeds freely exchanged, Europe has invented an official catalog of authorized seeds - including many F1 hybrids, which are not self-seed and must be redeemed annually by the grower. Any farmer who plants something and sells fruit production, is now considered off-the-law.
The seed is a tiny thing that we tend to overlook. Sometimes it is even perceived as a nuisance: maison they throw the stones, spit the seeds, the seeds are removed. Yet it is fundamental. It is the source of life. Manufacturers are not mistaken, fomenting for almost 30 years their hold on life through these organic chips.
But it is not too late. Facing them, people are fighting everywhere. Philosophers and ferocious activists maison like Vandana Shiva, the "green diva" Indian, organizations fighting for the "liberation of the seeds," as Kokopelli association, the Peasant Seeds Network, the Incredible Edible, Barter seeds, or the movement Hummingbirds ... And also, against all odds, a handful of peasants love old varieties, their poetic names, their forms and their quirky tastes delicious. I talk about it as much as I can in my pages ...
To defend the production, preservation and dissemination of traditional fruit and vegetable seeds, Philippe Desbrosses pioneer of organic farming and founder of the Association Intelligence Verte and the experimental maison farm of St. Martha, launched the Life Seeds offering all citizens to learn (free) to cultivate maison and preserve the seeds, but also to spread, and spread knowledge.
For more information, simply go to the website here, where intervene exciting defenders of the subject as Cyril Dion (Hummingbirds), director Coline Serreau, the botanist-ecologist Jean-Marie Pelt and many others. I also urge you to plant your first seed contributing to their crowdfunding maison campaign maison here (there are only a few days!).
"As the water or the air we breathe, the seeds are a common good of humanity, allowing us to live, said Cyril Dion. The privatized, it is like losing a democracy, because democracy is to have collectively control the things we depend on for life.
So, let us wake up, people! And plant, harvest, share, disséminons furiously to preserve freedom and diversity of our planet, our plates and our lives.
Subscribe to get notified of new articles.
Archive January 2015 (326) February (252) January 2014 (375) February (326) March (299) April (295) Mai (305) June (295) July (288) August (273) September (295) October (296 ) November (290) December (271) January 2013 (619) February (513) March (627) April (541) Mai (528) June (492) July (464) A