Forwarded to me:

Time to create a little hidey hole in the wall to save your seeds in!

If you would like more info on this, Austin’s own Full Circle Productions produced two videos on this troubling subject (contact Becky Hays at info@fcproductions.com if you want a video, an 8-minute short OR a 60 minute expose with India’s Dr. Vandana Shiva).  Monsanto’s practice of suing farmers for using their own seed (which Monsanto has decided to patent despite the fact that the farmers have been using these seeds for centuries) has left thousands of farmers in India in debt and led to many suicides.  This is so much more serious than people realize -- the multinational corporations are patenting our food supply and ultimately have the power to commit genocide by withholding it.  Think about it -- how many ‘seedless’ varieties are new to our food supply since you were a kid?  It’s no accident that agribusiness files patents on seeds, then manipulates them to their advantage.

This is outrageous - for those of you wondering why I harp on this issue, here it is:

New from GRAIN
15 October 2004

World Food Day: Iraqi farmers aren’t celebrating

NEWS RELEASE For immediate release
http://www.grain.org/nfg/?id=253

When the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) celebrates biodiversity on World Food Day on October 16, Iraqi farmers will be mourning its loss.

A new report [1] by GRAIN and Focus on the Global South has found that new legislation in Iraq has been carefully put in place by the US that prevents farmers from saving their seeds and effectively hands over the seed market to transnational corporations. This is a disastrous turn of events for Iraqi farmers, biodiversity and the country’s food security. While political sovereignty remains an illusion, food sovereignty for the Iraqi people has been made near impossible by these new regulations.

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continued at http://www.grain.org/nfg/?id=253