Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
Reply to @GMWatch

@GMWatch Bizarre, the almost universal failure to notice, but hybrid varieties of food crops (the majority of for-profit cultivars) are engineered _by_design_ to lack the inherent capacity to co-evolve. Simply put, at a fundamental genomic level, such seed cannot adapt to climate chaos.

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Quoted by3/ Synthetic hybridization was *already* a plant-breeding cul-de-sac, of course. What’s new is that non-licensed, non-identifiable, GMO biotech represents a novel bio-economic strategy for privately locking away a democratic, biotic capacity to adapt coherently to climate chaos.Quoted by@MadsMcKeever @Irish_Cookbooks @Lillis25 A universal language, innit? Also, easier to explain the arcane specifics of open-pollinated/hybrid seed to computer programmers, than any other constituency, I find - simply replacing the word 'software' with 'seed'. The open-source protocol is a precise, trans-realm archetype.Quoted byend/ It's no mistake that such holistically-stewarded varieties possess the inherent capacity to adapt to climate chaos, nor that the bio-economic structure of the conventional plant-breeding complex (its genomic progeny included) represent an evolutionary dead-end. Whoops.Quoted by3/ Andrew and Sarah went on to found @AdaptiveSeeds ('Bringing Biodiversity Back') one of our country's foremost, holistic plant-breeding companies. A core focus? Potent, productive, well-stewarded, public-domain seed, with the intrinsic, co-evolutionary capacity to localize.Quoted byAhead of the dominant sound bite, experience affirms that where centralized, transactional, top-down approaches are poorly positioned to address the ecological and social disarray of our times, in contrast, localized, participatory approaches are proving highly effective.Quoted by#asnseed2022 #nofilter @CultivateOregon @AdaptiveSeeds #ppcAgProject