3/ 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.
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Copy of Tweet and Quote Tweet: and And while we may celebrate the freedom of seed to evolve, the only ground we have in which to coherently steward such work, is deliberately and forcefully denied us by an ongoing, pernicious, toxic, global power-play increasingly embedded in the fabric of local life itself. Quote Tweet This is what we call ‘bullshit capitalism’ or, more fully illuminated, ‘integral totalitarianism.’ Here, I’m going toe-to-toe with Dr. Steve Knapp, Monsanto's Global Director of Vegetable Breeding Technology @OSU in Corvallis, OR, June 2, 2013. facebook.com/100002219988748/posts/1505157089568276/ #seedsaving
@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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