{"id":523,"date":"2014-10-24T00:45:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T00:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=523"},"modified":"2014-10-24T00:45:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T00:45:41","slug":"seeding-change-transition-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"Seeding change | Transition Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/transitionfreepress.org\/2014\/10\/03\/seeding-change\/\">Seeding change | Transition Free Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\"><a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #ba4c0b; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"https:\/\/transitionfreepress.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/small-over-winter-seed-salad-brotherhood-church-greenhouse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1971\" style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline; float: left; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 4px 24px 12px 0px; border: 0px none initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/transitionfreepress.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/small-over-winter-seed-salad-brotherhood-church-greenhouse.jpg?w=441&amp;h=291\" alt=\"small Over Winter Seed Salad Brotherhood Church Greenhouse\" width=\"441\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><strong style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">73% of seed crops are now \u2018owned\u2019 by 10 corporations \u2013 while community and grassroots initiatives are working to keep global diversity alive. This weekend\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #307f00; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greatseedfestival.co.uk\/\">The Great Seed Festival\u00a0<\/a>in London celebrates the people and places that hold the future of many of our crops in their hands. In our Autumn issue we look at seed swaps, seed banks, and open source pollination (by bees and humans). Here\u00a0<a style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; color: #307f00; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\" href=\"http:\/\/warrendraper.wordpress.com\/\">Warren Draper<\/a>\u00a0reports on the radical acts of exchange happening\u2026online<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">It is hard to comprehend how patent examiners can grant patents on seeds for plants which have been commonly used, exchanged and cross-bred worldwide for thousands of years: surely it\u2019s like granting a large car manufacturer a patent for the wheel? But large corporations get their own way regarding patents in exactly the same way they control everything else \u2013 through powerful lobbying and relentless bullying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px 0px; border: 0px initial initial;\">&#8230;click on the link above to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeding change | Transition Free Press. 73% of seed crops are now \u2018owned\u2019 by 10 corporations \u2013 while community and grassroots initiatives are working to keep global diversity alive. This weekend\u00a0The Great Seed Festival\u00a0in London celebrates the people and places that hold the future of many of our crops in their hands. 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