permaculture

["Michael Miller & Ute Bohnsack" <burrenag@iol.ie>]

Sorry, for some reason my previous message was truncated.

| At 03:05 PM 6/12/98 -0400, gardenbetty@earthlink.net wrote:
| >This article reminds me of the story of Cargill Co. and Indian
farmers...
| Many
| >years ago, Cargill offered farmers in India hybrid seeds and all the
| chemicals
| >they needed to grow the food free for three years. After three years,
Cargill
| >announced that they would begin charging the farmers for the seed they
| needed.
| >Those farmers who were unable to afford the hybrid seed (most) lost
their
| >farms because the open-pollinated seed they had saved three years
previously
| >was no longer viable. Guess who bought up all that lost farm land?
| >
| >dawn

Sal <sals@rain.org> replied:
| I asked my friend, a farmer in Iowa why was he planting the gene altered
| soy beans and he said that his seed company just  gave him the seed free
.
| hummm wonder if he know about the Indian farmer.  
| | 



May I suggest that 'Sals' or Dawn send their interesting anecdotes
(combined) to the comment + voting page on GE?


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