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We are already winning...Nature is on our side! Edited.
 
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We are already winning...Nature is on our side! Edited.


Do you know how hard it is to operate Nature by hand, as these companies are trying to do?

And how costly are their attempts?

And how much they must 'dumb down' farmers, and the rest of us?


All it takes is one person to research, read a very old gardening book or two, or reason, and...Boom!...the cat is out of the bag. ...Nature, itself, works better...and cheaper! ...More easily.


I saw an interview of a past president (CEO?) of Monsanto...before it was sold.

This fellow was sprawled, lounging at his desk, and laughing.


He had no concerns about the dire consequences we imagine.


Number one, genetic mutilation of seeds, as I call it, was (is?) a very rough and imprecise science.

Cooler heads said it was like shooting genes in with a cannon...then seeing what you get.


The executive interviewed said that, at first, the company couldn't see any use for the technology.

I wouldn't be surprised that he knew how Nature works against 'mutations', too...and has been since the dawn of growing things on this planet.

In Nature, such mutations are called 'sports'...and the resulting plants are not necessarily hardy. They may die out. ...Or they may begin a new species.

I think the very concept of 'fertilizers' and 'pesticides', when they must be applied to damaged soil, limits the use of GM products.

First, one has to damage the soil...which is more easily done with machines.


Still, there is far more wild land on this planet than 'cultivated'...this, after a hundred years of machines trying.


And, show me a kitchen gardener who doesn't save seeds!


Even irradiation to destroy the fertility of foods that come in seed form, is too darned expensive.


Look how corporations are 'cutting costs' everywhere they can, so they may make a few more cents profit on the dollars invested by shareholders.


No...this is all a scheme to convince us of corporate power...which doesn't exist past any quarter end declaration of dividends.



Wild lands belong to us. The lands outside fences belong to us. Sunshiny edges of forests and clearcuts belong to us, if we can access them.

No one is going to clear squash plants and carrots, if we scatter those seeds.

(Peas and lettuces like cooler places. So does parsley, I think.)

Leave the weeds and grasses on any wild land nearby, even if it is only one foot by one foot square; scatter saved seeds mixed together; and whatever can grow, will.

All we need to do is come back at harvest time for free food.


They turn out the militia to eradicate hemp along roadsides, because it looks like marijuana...forgetting that it was once the law to grow hemp on every farm and homestead, because of its usefulness, and lack of harm.


Those who make laws and rules about what to grow, and where, have shot themselves in the foot.

The public, and Nature, are in charge...always have been...always will be.


Other social experiments have been tried, over thousands of years.


They don't work.


People will always revert to the practical, the natural...no matter man-made law...no matter the punishments.

We just like eating too much.

And, when we can get our food, better food, free, there will be no stopping the practice.


Just because corporate types belong to huge and apparently powerful organizations, doesn't mean they are smart.


They have to toe the line of 'corporate policy'.

We don't, and won't...and there are more of us.


Just go out and scatter some seeds on wild lands with the lushest weeds and grasses...because that is where the groundwater is, and every protection for soil microorganisms.

Scatter seeds beside forests, too.

Nature is the real gardener, and we only have to harvest.


Start figuring out how to harvest well, without destroying anything.

...And, how to save food for winter.


In the old country the apples and pears were buried in the grain bins.

The children knew when to dive in to get the last pears of the season.


And, learn how to dehydrate...and about root cellars.


There are more ways than you can shake a stick at.

:D


Some corporate types are going to look pretty silly, especially when they have to beg food to feed their babies.
 

 
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