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It's not only fruits and vegetables that are disappearing -- 60,000 to 100,000 plant species are also in danger of extinction.
Via Wes Thomas
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Via Wes Thomas
It wasn’t long ago when seeds were mostly the concern of farmers were the seed producers and the guardians of societies’ crop heritage. But this is no longer the case. Once considered to be the property of all, like water or even air, seeds have become largely privatized, such that only a handful of companies now control the global food supply.
Agriculture has been around for 10,000 years, but the privatization of seeds has only occurred very recently. In that short time, seed diversity has been decimated, farmers have been put out of business due to rising seed costs and the pesticide companies that control most seeds today have flourished.
In a comparison of seeds offered in commercial seed houses in the early 1900s to the seeds found in the National Seed Storage Laboratory in 1983, researchers found 93 percent of seeds were lost over eight decades.