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  • From: Jonathan Storvick <jstorvick@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Seeds of Change, supplier of open pollinated seeds is no more; gone.
  • Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 07:37:36 -0400

Is there any documentation for this? I couldn't find any news links from a
web search.

Cheers,

Jon

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:37 AM, Lawrence F. London, Jr. <
venaurafarm@bellsouth.net> wrote:

>
> Mars (manufacturer of junk food candy bars) bought Seeds
> of Change some years ago. A natural food store manager told me they
> offered no seeds to them last year for resale. Last week the goons in
> the employ of Mars (possibly from there as well) appeared at Seeds of
> Change, told _everyone_ (read: _all_ employees) that they were fired on
> the spot and to get their things together and leave the property
> immediately. They confiscated their laptops and cellphones, were not
> allowed to download their personal data, were watched while emptying
> their desks (might take a company ball point pen) then escorted off the
> property. The organization is being dismantled and the property will be
> sold. No more Seeds of Change, supplier of open pollinated seeds. A very
> similar scenario unfolded a few years ago at Seed Savers Exchange after an
> internal coup carried out partly by Monsanto surrogates resulted in the loss
> of nearly a life's work by Kent Whealy.
>
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