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NY times article about issues and challenges of modern plant breeding

 
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/07/opinion/sunday/dan-barber-seed-companies.html

Much of this is probably not new to people  - but I had no idea that you could patent the "purpleness" of a carrot!
 
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Thanks for sharing that Catie. More than a little scary. It makes the work that Joseph Lofthouse and others here on Permies do to develop landrace seeds all the more critical.
 
Acetylsalicylic acid is aspirin. This could be handy too:
Large Lot for Sale Inside an Established Permaculture Community — Bejuco, Costa Rica
https://permies.com/t/366607/Large-Lot-Sale-Established-Permaculture
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