Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980419074306.3666A-100000@alphaserv.ait.ac.th> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 07:49:03 +0700 From: Richard Tinsley <mailto:tinsley@ait.ac.th> Subject: Re: DEVEL-L Digest - 15 Apr 1998 to 16 Apr 1998 To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Please note the following paragraph is a gross mis-representation of some of the very principles of agriculture and plant production. The individual posting it needs to review some the basic introductory concepts of genetics, soil and plant science.Thank you
Dick Tinsley
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> But also I would like to give my small contribution: everybody knows
> that hybrid seeds are seeds without enough fecundity power to produce
> plants able to produce their new offspring. But this was already the
> beginning of the problem that Leora and Mukul are bringing to our
> conscience. The hybrid plants, besides of being weak vegetables that
> just produce sterile seeds, started the dependency of farmers to
> industry also in this area - seeds to sow... Along with dependency
> to *fertilize* the soils, what used to be a primary sector of
> human activity - producing directly from free natural sources as
> photosynthesis - became second to industry and soon to financial
> interests and circumstances... Now tell me, Jon, if you could choose
> between a meal made of fertile beans or corn, or another made of
> sterile grains, which one would you prefer to eat? Which one do
> you believe is more apt to keep your own vital energy in a high
> and harmonious level? Would you cultivate and give to your children
> or parents the sprouts produced from sterile or from fertile seeds?
> Thanks, J.
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