[Fwd: [creationsgarden@juno.com: Threat to biodiversity,wild herbs and heirloom crops]]

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  • To: G*@LSV.UKY.EDU
  • Subject: [creationsgarden@juno.com: Threat to biodiversity, wild herbs and heirloom crops]
  • From: R* D* D* A* <r*@k12.oit.umass.edu>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 19:53:24 -0400
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    From: creationsgarden@juno.com (unknown)
    To: herb@MyList.net
    Cc: docbones@sedona.net
    Subject: Threat to biodiversity, wild herbs and heirloom crops
    Date: Sat, 24 Oct


    To herb@MyList.net from creationsgarden@juno.com:

    The USDA is licensing internationally a technology that can put our herbs
    at risk, reduce biodiversity and cause widespread famine or expensive
    food crops.  Montsanto's Delta and Pine Land subsidiary is applying to
    license a genetically altered technology (developed with US tax monies!)
    that will cause sterility in second generation seeds. Farmers would be
    forced to purchase seeds from Montsanto every year instead of saving
    seeds. National applications for this technology are moving forward - or
    have issued - in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, South Africa, most
    European countries, and
    probably more jurisdictions.

    Scientists warn that, under certain conditions, the trait for seed
    sterility will flow, via pollen, from Terminator crops to surrounding
    plants, making the seeds of neighboring plants sterile.  This has two
    implications.  First, farmers who do not purchase Montsanto seeds may
    find that their  saved seeds are sterile, causing widespread famine and
    die off of annual plants.  Heirloom strains could die off, by picking up
    the inability to reproduce through cross pollination. Secondly, weeds and
    wild plants which are growing adjacent to Terminator crops may also pick
    up the sterility characteristics.

    Secondly, the seeds will have tetracycline residues, which can alter the
    probiotic balance of our bodies, those of wild animals which feed upon
    the crops and soil bacteria. Since it is unlikely that such crops will be
    identified in grocery stores, people will harm their bodies
    unsuspectingly.

    Please visit the site at http://www.rafi.org/usda.html to stop
    Montsanto's genetically altered  seeds with "terminator " genes.  You can
    easily send off letters to:

    The Honorable Dan Glickman
    Secretary of Agriculture
    200-A Whitten Bldg.
    1400 Independence Ave., SW
    Washington  DC  20250

    and

    admars@ars.usda.gov
    bob.smith@mail.house.gov
    senator_lugar@lugar.senate.gov


    Karen Vaughan
    CreationsGarden@juno.com
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    Email comments are educational, not diagnostic- seek appropriate medical
    care.
    Check http://www.rafi.org/usda.html to stop Montsanto's genetically
    altered  seeds with "terminator " genes.

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