Laura Bruno – Thank You, Monsanto! – 25 June 2013 [1]

June 24, 2013 by laurabruno

 

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So much for panicking…my computer is fixed!

I was really in a tiz thinking that I was going to be without the means of spreading the energy from Bealtaine Cottage and I’m glad about that, because as the evening progressed and my computer was being fixed, I had time to think about all the people I have met through this blog…and what we all have in common…Passion!

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Growing life from seed and sharing the abundance of the ensuing seed and all because of Monsanto!

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If Monsanto had not attempted to own and monopolize  our seed, I would never have met Elena from Greece, who posted me this Rocket seed…now in the process of making more seed!

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Or David from the U.S. who sent me these Oak seeds, now growing in pots in the shelter of one of the sheds.

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And Eric who posted me a selection of tree seeds, all scattered in the gardens, for me to find in the autumn, as flowers and fruit and vegetables die back.

For then I will carefully lift and pot them on.

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And the package I recently received from Switzerland, filled with Ginkgo seeds,  a unique species of tree with no close living relatives.

A tree that tolerates pollution and indeed even survived the Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima!

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Or the Black Tomato seeds from Tara in New York!

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The wickedness perpetrated by Monsanto, in trying to arrest, control and kill off the great biodiversity of life, has awakened so many to the very essence of life itself…seed!

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We are now aware and able to articulate what it is that makes life so fantastic…and it all stems from seed.

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Nine years ago, my main interest in seed was far from protecting it, but simply in growing.

Thanks to Monsanto, I got to know great people like Dr Vandana Shiva, who  opened the door into a wonderful world of possibilities and challenges, to save and nurture seed.

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Nine years ago I was growing food and flowers…today I am growing an Ark for Mother Nature, one that is more than the sum total of everything I have ever done before!

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Monsanto has aroused passions in people that few were ever aware of…certainly I never felt this passionate about Mother Earth!

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And that is the difference between Monsanto executives and Seed savers and nurturers…passion.

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They just don’t have it!

Eat your heart out, Monsanto!

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