CharlesInCharge
03-04-2014, 12:34 PM
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STOP BILL C-51 ! - YouTube
Growing food should present no legal problems. You plant seeds, care for the plants, harvest the food, then save some seeds for the next year. Right?
Not anymore. Big agribusinesses are enclosing the seed commons. Seed ownership has become complex, littered with regulation, copyright issues, forgery charges and corporate manipulation.
The following video gives a brief overview of the current “crazy seed situation” in Europe. Created by the Open Solutions Project, the video uses talking (and singing) potato people to explain the barriers that prevent growers from saving and re-sowing seeds. It also shines a light on a sane solution to the problem: public domain seeds
The Right to Save Seed - YouTube
Reading material of bill C-51
Protect the Right to Save Seed - Stop Bill C-18 - National Farmers Union launches new campaign | Locals Supporting Locals (http://www.localssupportinglocals.ca/news/protect-right-save-seed-stop-bill-c-18-national-farmers-union-launches-new-campaign)
http://sustainontario.com/2014/02/05/21214/members-events/member-event-nfu-campaign-a-seed-act-for-farmers-not-corporations-stop-bill-c-18
Conservative statements on C-18 Farmers? Privilege provisions are misleading, says NFU | National Farmers Union (http://www.nfu.ca/story/conservative-statements-c-18-farmers%E2%80%99-privilege-provisions-are-misleading-says-nfu)
Mixed reaction to Bill C-18 - Canada / World - Farm Focus (http://www.atlanticfarmfocus.ca/Canada%20/%20World/2013-12-12/article-3541194/Mixed-reaction-to-Bill-C18/1)
STOP BILL C-51 ! - YouTube
Growing food should present no legal problems. You plant seeds, care for the plants, harvest the food, then save some seeds for the next year. Right?
Not anymore. Big agribusinesses are enclosing the seed commons. Seed ownership has become complex, littered with regulation, copyright issues, forgery charges and corporate manipulation.
The following video gives a brief overview of the current “crazy seed situation” in Europe. Created by the Open Solutions Project, the video uses talking (and singing) potato people to explain the barriers that prevent growers from saving and re-sowing seeds. It also shines a light on a sane solution to the problem: public domain seeds
The Right to Save Seed - YouTube
Reading material of bill C-51
Protect the Right to Save Seed - Stop Bill C-18 - National Farmers Union launches new campaign | Locals Supporting Locals (http://www.localssupportinglocals.ca/news/protect-right-save-seed-stop-bill-c-18-national-farmers-union-launches-new-campaign)
http://sustainontario.com/2014/02/05/21214/members-events/member-event-nfu-campaign-a-seed-act-for-farmers-not-corporations-stop-bill-c-18
Conservative statements on C-18 Farmers? Privilege provisions are misleading, says NFU | National Farmers Union (http://www.nfu.ca/story/conservative-statements-c-18-farmers%E2%80%99-privilege-provisions-are-misleading-says-nfu)
Mixed reaction to Bill C-18 - Canada / World - Farm Focus (http://www.atlanticfarmfocus.ca/Canada%20/%20World/2013-12-12/article-3541194/Mixed-reaction-to-Bill-C18/1)