Organic seed producer Frank Morton has been warning people for years that genetically modified organisms pose a serious threat to the Willamette Valley’s vegetable seed industry. Now he thinks his worst GMO nightmare may be coming true.
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But now the effort is to take over the whole game, going after even small sources of biodiversity – by simply defining seeds as food and then all farmers’ affordable mechanisms for harvesting (collecting), sorting (seed cleaning) and storing (seed banking or saving) as too dirty to be safe for food.
HR 875 and S 425 – the criminalization of organic farming, and the labeling of organic farming methods as “sources of seed contamination.”
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