I dont want to derail the thread, but whever I read about this kind of totalitarian stuff, I find this excerpt comforting....
I like that one. I sent it to Ashton.
I dont want to derail the thread, but whever I read about this kind of totalitarian stuff, I find this excerpt comforting....
Signed and shared on Facebook!!!!
ooooh, technically it is. But, since it's a complete and utter travesty agin nature and a healthy biodiversity, this Mod's being selectively blind on the issue....if the thread disappears at least some will have had the chance to read it first.
I hope you don't mind BR, I'm going to write to Ms Ashton too, but I'm giving a heavy hint to folks who aren't comfortable writing their own to copy yours.
Anyone know if there's a proposal/petition elsewhere that can be accessed ?
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Thats unbelievable. Makes you wonder where it will all end. Someone should drop countryfile an email as well. Maybe they'll do an expose?
countryfile@bbc.co.uk
... Hopefully mother nature will step in and regulate human kind.
The blatant stupidity of this is mind-boggling..............I've thought of little else in the 48 hrs. or so since BR's original post; I still find it difficult that "those who run things in Europe" can really be so crass and transparent as to roll over and allow this to happen. As far as I can see there is absolutely no remote pretense at any justification for the proposed measures, outside of the financial gain of the agri-industrial giants.
The more I think on it the more I am convinced that if this goes through it will be looked back on as a watershed moment in the wanton disregard for anything other than profit.
I have a very bad taste in my mouth, and it seems likely to linger................................................mac
I 'think' Joel's chilli analogy is the root of all this.
Y'see if someone buys seeds from one of these multi national mahooosive seed producers; and mind those seeds are from incrediby tightly controlled breeding; sows and grows them and somehow or other manages to grow them again, or heaven forfend actually manages to get them to breed with some other variety within the same family, then the companies are claiming that that's 'their' seed.
The fact that they 'sold' the seed doesn't seem to stop their claims