To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Revealed: how seed market is controlled by Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, Dow & DuPont
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:33:14 -0500
According to our field crops manager of Organic Valley saving seed for
field crops is fairly common among organic farmers in these parts. &
here is the famous case of Per;chy Schmeiser who's open pollinated
rapeseed was contaminated by Monsantos gmo rapeseed.
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Mark Angermayer <hangermayer@isp.com> wrote:
>
> Please don't confuse that with the terrible destruction of seed banks, which
> I'm wholeheartedly against. But farmers haven't saved seed back to replant
> for 50 years. As an aside, this is not about Bt corn vs. non Bt corn. It's
> a much larger issue than that.
>