The farmer is a figure that has been ignored or opposed by the institutions and major economic-financial potentates ... Enters little money in the market, not borrow, it is independent! We grow a cow gives to eat the hay that he produces, makes milk cheese that gives the neighborhood in this passage there is no intermediary, because it annoys the circulation of goods and there is nothing to suck on! I know a poor man who had retired from grew a cow grazing in its properties well then had to pay a fine salty because he had a shelter for the animal in accordance with current health standards! The limitations are made to farmers different but it is my intention to tighten the focus on a problem that is rarely discussed: The current inability of many farmers to produce seeds themselves.
The self-reproduction of the seed, or the privilege that the farm or the farmer has to sow the seed by taking a portion of their crops is a right or rather a possibility, still under threat, if not disappeared. This is for two reasons: 1) The decree of the President of the Republic No 322, 9 May 2001 in other words that prohibits the exchange of seeds and plants among the farmers. At this point, common sense leads us to ask why the farmers because of these pseudo laws must give to those varieties that are handed down and know how to drive to reproduce, those that sometimes do without pesticides and are better resistant to adverse environmental conditions? The second reason is the massive spread of hybrid seeds F1 (first-paternity) if not GMO (genetically modified) seeds which are incapable of generating plants equal to those from which they were collected because they do not have a stable genetic trasmissbile; All this to say that this mechanism we earn and what dell'agrochimica multinationals at the expense of the peasants who have come from the nose blowing their independence and autonomy, partly because of misinformation ... By now I would say in the agricultural associations or agricultural pharmacies are only hybrids inconvenient or impossible to reproduce but do not be fooled that this concerns only the seeds are sterile ... the rabbits, chickens if you try to play it halved its size after a couple of generations! I have already met with farmers who have closed their business because the prices of seeds to buy back every year for re-seeding were too high. But here we must cry out because the peasants, if this continues will be only to lease their land even if they possess a life of their property because for the seeding of crops will have to spend large sums of money every year! will no longer be neither independent nor self subsistent. So we find ourselves in agriculture have the same problem Giacinto Auriti denounced in the economy. In fact, as people are not the real owners of the money you have in your pocket, so farmers are not the real owners of the various varieties of plants that have in the garden with him and say that just as the money comes to property that the bank issue loans (and therefore the people instead of being owners of the coins in his pocket who are making payments) in the same way we say that the seed was born the property of the corporation that the issue loans, in this case to the farmers. We are just at the most absurd paradoxes and is embarrassing to note that while GMOs and hybrids are promoted, advertised and circulated, traditional native seeds (those that can be played with the genetic stability) are likely to become illegal because they do not bear the EEC! The seeds have always been persecuted in dictatorial regimes, such as the Communists have given proof that he particularly hated landowners and holders of seeds, thereby sequestering them and starve millions of people in Ukraine, even now tells us Maurizio Blondet in Iraq that the peasants were forced to use instead of their seeds always, those of Jewish multinational Monsanto, Maybe you can not get to talk at least in this latest case of an attempt to blackmail the food? With regard to GMOs is to be say that not even comply with basic civics that motto: "Your freedom ends where that of others begins." In fact, a traditional crop in the field can not last long and to keep intact a field next to GM because the chemicals used on them are much stronger and consequently both the parasitic weeds that are adapted to better withstand the massive doses of poisons and thus become dangerously immune to the natural defenses of plants indigenous to the place. The problem of 'pollination by air is considered, it could happen that a farmer as hate GM will end up sooner or later to have in your garden genetically modified plants by the pollen as it is known that spreads through the air. Leafing through some biblical passages of Genesis on the creation, I realize that even the parameters that God had established in creation have been altered, GN 1, 11 - 12 "And God said the earth put forth vegetation, plants yielding seed (...) and so happened: the earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after his kind (...) God saw that it was good. " At one time the seed was a 'heritage and passed on from generation to generation, what we leave to our children to be sown, only GMOs and hybrids that you can not sow? gadget brought by Greenpeace with two jars in miniature, some pumpkin seed label: "Become a seed saver" (savior of seeds) is nice but it's too little, should adhere to the activities of organizations such as seed savers Kokopelli or civilization, look for these seeds and adopt them in their gardens. In the case of our territories is discounted to take advantage of the few native varieties and self-reproducing that still remain transforming every piece of land a Noah's ark that serves to preserve the rich biodiversity heritage, traditions (agricultural and cooking) and civilization, we would like to say always and as always independent of the multinationals.
Francesco Diana
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