A summary of the situation in modern terms
Humanity has been working together for thousands of years to harness nature and
use its generous laws to make civilization possible. After thousands of years of
“open source” agriculture, we are now in the “Microsoftization” era of
agribusiness.
When seeds no longer bear fruit
If you have ever tried to grow tomatoes using seeds from your own tomatoes grown
from commercial seeds, you have probably been disappointed… Yes, seed merchants
have made the impossible possible: they have secured a captive clientele. This
is possible only by confiscating life, since life is generous and reproduces
free of charge.
More than ever, faster than ever, but at what price?
The fruit born by these commercial seeds, known as F1 hybrids, carry
degenerative seeds. When grown, they often generate more revenue, but require
irregular conditions—more fertilizer, more pesticides, more water—because we are
trading in the natural adaptability that makes plants more robust for
characteristics that make them more commercially viable. This exposes
populations to disasters because any cultivable surface dominated by hybrids
becomes vulnerable to various kinds of damage.
F1 hybrids capitalize on biodiversity while killing it off
Seed multinationals need to use very different species to produce
commercially viable hybrids. Unfortunately, the domination of hybrid seeds on
the markets and in ecosystems threatens this biodiversity. Thousands of
varieties of plants used in the past have already disappeared. Only plants that
grow dollar bills interest seed merchants.
Another philosophical question: Why? For whom?
The commercial control of the global food trade through subterfuges such as
the spread of sterile seeds and patents on life is clearly detrimental to the
human race. Without being against free enterprise, we think it should be framed
within certain obvious facts. It should quite simply be illegal to use trickery
to circumvent the intelligent laws of nature only to selfishly confiscate life
in order to resell it.
