Seeds are under attack everywhere. Under corporate pressure, laws in many countries increasingly put limitations on what farmers can do with their seeds and with the seeds they buy. Seed saving, a thousand-year-old practice which forms the basis of farming, is fast becoming criminalised. What can we do about this?
Two Options: The story of an environmental activist (Dr. Vandana Shiava) and a farmer (Bija Devi) and their fight to preserve heirloom seeds in India amidst great opposition.
In this brief video Dr. Vandana Shiava explains how the policies of Monsanto have led to farmer suicides (they lose their farms after believing they will get […]
Main building of the Pavlovsk Research Station. Photo by Global Crop Diversity Trust / Flickr
by Deniza Gertsberg
GMO journal
“I hope the Russians love their children too,” crooned Sting in his 1985 song Russians. The Cold War may be over but we still wonder if the Russians love their children. If they did, why would they be disregarding […]
by Ethan A. Huff
NaturalNews
(NaturalNews) The fight to preserve food freedom is taking place all over the world as multinational biotechnology companies like Monsanto continue to push for total domination of the world’s food supply. Access to heirloom and organic seeds, contaminant-free organic food, and even one’s own farmland is threatened by various types […]
