FW: Peasants protest mutant corn field test

[Jim heartfield]

In message <07E012F391C6D2119AFD0050040E8AE022E524 at RLM-EXCH>, Carl
Remick <cremick at rlmnet.com> writes
>    KMP chair Rafael Mariano said that peasants will lose the 
>    twelve-millennium-old rights to raise their own seeds to 
>    agrocorporations 
>    which control the trade of food, chemicals and seeds and which have 
>    exclusive rights to the new seeds that need huge doses of 
>    chemicals. 

Incidentally, the practice of planting seed from your own crop went out
with the bakelite radio. Farmers all over the world buy their seed corn
rather than growing it. When you plant from your own harvest you get
into a pretty rapidly diminishing return. Obviously there is bound to be
some conflict in the relationship between farmers and those who produce
agricultural inputs, but that does not mean that going back to
unproductive methods is a solution.

-- 
Jim heartfield