I came across this article:
It seems mainstream science is starting to take notice.
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Ooh I love it! I wonder what it would look like on a large scale for industry to pay attention to, and cooperate with, local small-time growers for their diverse and adapted seed, and the accompanying knowledge.
This shouldnât be in the âoff topicâ category - it would be hard to think of anything more on topic. Should be in âresource hub.â
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Thatâs really naive . The companies will want to buy the landrace seeds and then patent them. Maybe the substenance farmers will be let off because theyâre irrelevant.
I heard this podcast of Padraic Flood about aardakers. He said the laws in place to protect the indigenous peopleâs heritage created a bureaucratic obstacle for the few serious plant breeders that wish to breed for the good of humanity. All the while big compagnies employ poor sods to clear these hurdles.
Itâll be crumbles that âleadersâ pocket. Same as it ever was.
So, not happy globalist corporate industrialist mass media complex is focusing in on genetic diversity. Letâs hope and pray they forget soon and zoom back in on the usual technocratic industrial Frankenscience fantasies they love to promote.
And thatâs really pessimistic. The points youâve made are that patenting is too easily acquirable for companies, and the current laws are not nuanced enough to elicit the desired balance between original genetic keepers, well-intentioned breeders, and large corporations. Those are both difficult, yet possible, challenges to overcome if identified and precisely targeted by uniquely motivated and resourceful actors (interest groups, activist organizations, etc.).
It would be ideal to have independent plant breeders provide small amounts of seed to independent seed producers who then provide large amounts of seed to independent farmers who then sell directly to the public or independent grocery stores.
Not saying its gonna happen but would be nice:)
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I know i am not positive. But i prefer to be realistic than jump on the incessantly promoted corporate media narrative bandwagon that government regulation of everything might bring positive outcome and that âweâ should hope for it, like small children for christmas. And especially in the conclusion of an otherwise informative article i am likely to get triggered that.
But i invit you to cheer me up! Tell me when you think i am being negative, what rules they imposed have benefited small scale breeders?
I am not speaking of the public money they used to make bureaucratic seedbanksâŠ
Hurdles and more hurdles upon hurdles. But yeah, bring your enthusiasm, long breath and youth, youâre going to need all of that, oh and a big bag of good olâcash to pay off the prison guard and hope for more regulation, itâs for the greater good!
Having said all that, which i am grateful i still can do until moderation strikes i find some space inside myself to say that we do that in Europe with the Evolutionary Population projects of Salvatore Ciccerelli. A university dude who has gathered 2000 landrace strains and distributes them to farmers directly and hopes for spreading farmer to farmer after having tried all official ways firstâŠ
He has the same conclusion as me by the way. Funny how do-ers seem to get disheartened and pioneers contain a large portion of rebels, from Sepp Holzer to Joel Salatin.
Positive greetings!
I think I understand a little better now. Gardening, landracing are not my true passions; something else is, which also intertwines with, and is at the mercy of, politics. Itâs easy for me to be optimistic over something that for myself amounts to a hobby. But I feel the disappointment, the pessimism, the bitterness when it comes to my real passion; there is so much that could be done, so much that could be improved where it pertains, yet itâs politically thwarted time after time by people who have no clue what theyâre talking about, who think itâs not a big deal, who are after their own agenda.
I take it that landracing is your passion?
Yes it is. Amongst permaculture and building. Basic blocks of life. Politics is in the way of idealistic lifestyles. Socialist kill initiatives by regulation, capitalists by making life impossible for poor people. Left against right is fantasy in my opinion itâs more them against us living a natural life. Dividing us in a million ways into atomized individualists, making it impossible to create a real society. Weâre at the brink of a third world war breaking out and being an advocate for peace gets one labeled. I speak about this with maybe three people. And most people have not even a notion of how insane that fact is.
Thatâs just realism to realize how crazy our society has become. Gardening keeps me sane.
I do not embrace the toxic positive society. Iâm working on building a parallel one.
If people think thatâs a nĂ©gative attitude, iâll try to explain, but if they donât get it itâs not my problem. Iâll avoid speaking to them about it and keep building.
We live in such incredible abundance, life is astonishingly beautiful. I try to embrace this abundant life. Rare are those who see this and even rarer are those who practice it. The last on earth being politicians to see. Why would i let the blind dictate reality and occupy my mind space when i could be building my better world which gives me joy, zest, beauty and childlike amazement, teaching me every day?
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I get you. I guess what gets me through the slumps is focusing on what can be done. I know it wonât change the establishment, it wonât lead to a new world order; youâre right, weâre probably doomed to another world war. Even the most successful advocates/revolutionists of history didnât really change much in the big scheme of things, and Iâm not made of the stuff of even those figures. But, on a small scale, we can maybe change things enough to feel a little better about life. Who knows. Iâm hitting a wall with even that. People donât like to change. Apparently itâs easier just to go along to get along, though I missed that teaching somehow and it puts me perpetually at odds with everyone. But weâre built to seek solutions, and I feel that we have to keep trying-- at least trying, if not succeeding-- to feel a modicum of fulfillment. I donât believe in toxic positivity either; challenges must be faced and worked through to resolve, not ignored with a plastered smile. But Iâve also spent many past years mired in stagnant complaining and pessimism. I had thought that was you, but it doesnât sound like the case. I can see the realistic optimism in your words.