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  • From: Heron Breen <breen@fedcoseeds.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Monsanto Buy Seminis Seeds
  • Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:56:27 -0600

Respectively, Seminis supplies open-pollinateds and hybrids, and controls the
seed resources for a huge amount of the seed trade, including Territorial and
Fedco to name a few.
Heron

On Mon Jan 24 17:08 , Pat Meadows <pat@containerseeds.com> sent:

>On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:44:35 -0800 (Pacific Standard Time),
>you wrote:
>
>>On another list I read that Seminis provides seeds for Burpee, Territorial
>>and Johnny's. Does anyone know if that's true and what other seed companies
>>they sell to. Sounds like a boycott is in order.
>>
>
>Territorial has an awful lot of open-pollinated seeds. I
>can't believe they are buying them from Seminis. I sent for
>Seminis' literature at one point, and they sell hybrids
>mainly (no surprise).
>
>I'd want accurate information before I participated in any
>boycott.
>
>I agree though: it's not good news for gardeners or seed
>savers. Very bad news, in fact.
>
>In the EU, seed cannot be sold to the public unless it is
>registered with the EU, a procedure that costs thousands of
>dollars per variety, each year*. This effectively
>eliminates not only small seed selling companies, but also
>organizations such as the Seed Savers Exchange.
>
>Regulations such as that also, of course, strongly act
>against the maintenance of genetic diversity.
>
>Pat
>
>[* My source for this statement can be found at:
>http://www.vidaverde.co.uk/terms.html - scroll down to the
>section entitled 'Our Seed Club'. Vida Verde is in the UK,
>and the UK government is probably quite willing to turn a
>blind eye to EU regulations: much more willing than our
>government would be to turn a blind eye to the violation of
>regulations that benefit corporations such as Monsanto. I
>knew this from other sources, as well.]
>
>
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