Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Seed commons attacked (once again by private-capital ideology)

Twelve Russian scientists famously chose to starve to death rather than eat the unique collection of seeds and plants they were protecting for humanity during the 900-day siege of Leningrad in the second world war. But the world's first global seed bank now faces destruction once more, to make way for a private housing estate.
Read on here.

2 comments:

  1. It's absolutely unbelievabe isn't it!!!

    Wrong in so many ways..

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  2. hello... great to find my way to your blog.
    I read this on Civil Eats blog from the US the other day and wanted to post on it... had not done so... so this is the prompt I needed.
    look forward to reading more here...
    Sophie

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