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  • From: "dirt.4arm" <dirt.4arm AT gmail.com>
  • To: "market-farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Power grab at Seed Savers Exchange -[Fwd: [permaculture] changes at seed saver's exchange]
  • Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 03:55:01 -0500


Power grab at Seed Savers Exchange -[Fwd: [permaculture] changes at seed
saver's exchange]

See this URL for a digitized photocopy of Kent's letter:

http://www.mustangmods.com/ims/u/1016/1377/217012.pdf

The following are on the current SSE board:

Amy Goldman
Neil Hamilton
Deborah Madison
Rob Johnson (Johnny's Seeds)
Cary Fowler (Global Crop Diversity Trust)

NOTE that SeedSavers took a huge grant from the FDA, aka Monsanto Enforcement
Division. Huge mistake.

NOTE that Amy Goldman was the keynote speaker and celebrity of a conference
featured "biotechnology solutions"
http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/cucurbits/#biotech

NOTE That Kent regretted ever sanctioning a Board of Directors not of members

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [permaculture] changes at seed saver's exchange
> Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:15:51 -0700
> From: Johnathan Yelenick <yelenick AT riseup.net>
> Reply-To: permaculture <permaculture AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> To: permaculture AT lists.ibiblio.org
> References:
> <mailman.279159.1200803801.31452.permaculture AT lists.ibiblio.org>
>
> I am forwarding this from the Bioregional listserve.
> This letter is hauntingly germane to recent discourse on this list.
> Like, "politics has nothing to do with permaculture institutions and
> activities". I beg to differ.
>
> Anyway, anyone interested in the maintenance of Seed Saver's Exchange
> should closely be paying attention to this.
>
> Warm Regards,
> Johnathan Yelenick
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Many of you may be familiar with the work, buy garden seeds from or even
> be members of Seed Saver's Exchange in Decorah Iowa. You may have heard
> Kent Whealy give one of his inspiring talks. Here is a letter that Kent
> sent out after he was fired. It sounds pretty apalling. It sounds like
> this massive and amazing seed bank may have fallen into the wrong
> hands.....one of the many perils of centralization. The link to the
> letter is below. Dan'l B
>
> http://www.mustangmods.com/ims/u/1016/1377/217012.pdf
> <http://www.mustangmods.com/ims/u/1016/1377/217012.pdf>







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