Food for Thought?

[Dennis1209]

Say All,

Wanted to get your opinions on one aspect of our times I find curious. I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist or tin hatter but, I find no logic with what many countries are doing, including our own.

I'm referring to the massive seed banks being created by governments and organizations.

Does the government and/or the elites / scientists know or suspect something we don't know?

Living in the country I talk to farmers from time to time and discuss their crops, drought, deer damage, etc. Everyone I've talked to has said they purchase genetically modified seed (GM). It's my understanding the majority of the produce you purchase at the grocery store is GM.

It's also my understanding GM food seed is generally sterile and unfit to use as seed plant. Not to mention against the law to have without a license. Furthermore, I'm hearing rumblings that insects are becoming resistant to GM crops, and suppose the genetic make up of these seeds change and / or start killing all the pollinators?

You can still purchase Heirloom seed through the Internet but, it seems the majority of the crops we purchase have been GM.

Remember the pestilence that occurred out West in the early 19th century, when the Mormons were migrating to Utah? Just as in Africa, there's not much that can be done with another out break of locusts in the U.S. It's almost impossible to contain wild fires under certain conditions and a pestilence of locusts would be harder, even with all our advanced technology.

You are given an official reason for these actions. But when you have the cooperation and concurrence of many nations working on this, it makes you wonder if there's another major concern.

Thoughts guys?

Edited August 3, 2012 by Dennis1209

[Jonnin]

follow the money. Rather than think these clowns have some sort of functional crystal ball, I would say someone won a grant and funding to do the project. Governments fund all kinds of stuff for all kinds of reasons. The bulk of it goes to waste, when it comes to planning for the future. We see a possible threat and plan for it, and if nothing happens, its just more wasted money in a sea of wasted money. There are only 2 choices... plan for what you can guess might happen, or play it by ear... Its the crazy prepper-guy scenario on a grand scale, and I am sorta glad they do the prepping.

[Oh Shoot]

Well, there have been a collection of seed banks around the world for a good long while, started back in the 50's. Nuclear war fears was a big impetus. There are over a thousand of them around the world.

One of the most consolidated and extensive ones, The Global Seed Bank started in 1984, new facility completed in 2008.

http://en.wikipedia....lobal_Seed_Bank

The very largest one, Millennium Seed Bank Project, actually concentrates on wild plants, didn't actually start until 2000, and only claims 10% of the world's species so far.

Anyway, don't really see this a really new phenomenon or anything.

Here's a most interesting early one I just saw:

"Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943) was a Russian geneticist and botanist who, through botanic-agronomic expeditions, collected seeds from all over the world. He set up one of the first seedbanks, in Leningrad (now St Petersburg), which survived the 28-month Siege of Leningrad in World War II. It is now known as the Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry. Several botanists starved to death rather than eat the collected seeds."

- OS

Edited August 3, 2012 by OhShoot