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WEDNESDAY, MAR 27, 2013 04:44 PM EDT
Updated, March 28: A number of readers have requested (click here) to know exactly where in the HR 933 they might find the provision dubbed the “Monsanto Protection Act.” It is Section 735 in the bill, the full text of which can be read here.
Original post: Slipped into the Agricultural Appropriations Bill, which passed through Congress last week, was a small provision that’s a big deal for Monsanto and its opponents. The provision protects genetically modified seeds from litigation in the face of health risks and has thus been dubbed the “Monsanto Protection Act” by activists who oppose the biotech giant. President Barack Obama signed the spending bill, including the provision, into law on Tuesday...
No one is going to go up against Monsanto. There is a way of knowing if the food purchased is quality or GMO foods. See GMO seed is the way Monsanto maintains it's dominance and profit, but, there are ways to deal with Monsanto.
Many knew this mess was inevitable.
Amishland Heirloom Seeds (click here)
Victory Seeds (click here)
Libraries are wonderful things. No wonder they were shut down and deprived of funding under Bush.
Smithsonian Libraries Seed Catalog (click here)
Everyone needs to be grateful for the work of organizations such as The Land Institute. When Wall Street only focuses on exclusive products and guaranteed profits; there are actually well educated and dedicated professionals that know where this planet is headed. These folks are heroes and work for far less than they are worth. They are the police and firefighters of our future in their own way.
The Land Institute (click here)
...Our goal is to fashion an agriculture as sustainable as the nature we have destroyed, an agriculture that rewards the farmer and the landscape more than the manufacturers of external inputs. An agriculture in which irreparable soil erosion ceases. An agriculture not dependant on fossil fuels or alien chemicals with which we have no evolutionary experience....
There is a movement among small family farms to return to perennial crops instead of annual crops. The perennial crop seed was difficult to find for a while, but, here are Heritage Seed Stock in the USA and they have been propagated to increase the 'seed stocks' and allow regrowth of healthy food. Perennial crops do better with the Climate Crisis. They have roots that run very deep and protect the soil. When they maintain the soil, they maintain the moisture (drought prevention) and nutrients.
No one is going to go up against Monsanto. There is a way of knowing if the food purchased is quality or GMO foods. See GMO seed is the way Monsanto maintains it's dominance and profit, but, there are ways to deal with Monsanto.
Heirloom Vegetable Seeds for the Kitchen Garden (click here)
Many knew this mess was inevitable.
Amishland Heirloom Seeds (click here)
Victory Seeds (click here)
Libraries are wonderful things. No wonder they were shut down and deprived of funding under Bush.Smithsonian Libraries Seed Catalog (click here)
Everyone needs to be grateful for the work of organizations such as The Land Institute. When Wall Street only focuses on exclusive products and guaranteed profits; there are actually well educated and dedicated professionals that know where this planet is headed. These folks are heroes and work for far less than they are worth. They are the police and firefighters of our future in their own way.
The Land Institute (click here)
...Our goal is to fashion an agriculture as sustainable as the nature we have destroyed, an agriculture that rewards the farmer and the landscape more than the manufacturers of external inputs. An agriculture in which irreparable soil erosion ceases. An agriculture not dependant on fossil fuels or alien chemicals with which we have no evolutionary experience....
There is a movement among small family farms to return to perennial crops instead of annual crops. The perennial crop seed was difficult to find for a while, but, here are Heritage Seed Stock in the USA and they have been propagated to increase the 'seed stocks' and allow regrowth of healthy food. Perennial crops do better with the Climate Crisis. They have roots that run very deep and protect the soil. When they maintain the soil, they maintain the moisture (drought prevention) and nutrients.
H.R. 933: Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (click here)
113th Congress, 2013–2015. Text as of Mar 22, 2013 (Passed Congress/Enrolled Bill).
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