[Terrapreta] The Nature of the Beast opposing a healthy planet

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Sean

Read about Kusa Seed Society here:
http://www.ancientcerealgrains.org/

Kevin

Sean K. Barry wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>  
> Did you intend to give an attachment of or a link to this full article 
> with this statement of yours?
>  
> Regards,
>  
> SKB
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* M. Michael Crown <mailto:libertyson11 at yahoo.com>
>     *To:* terrapreta at bioenergylists.org
>     <mailto:terrapreta at bioenergylists.org>
>     *Sent:* Saturday, May 10, 2008 3:53 PM
>     *Subject:* [Terrapreta] The Nature of the Beast opposing a healthy
>     planet
>
>     To my mind, this tale, from the Kusa Seed Society catalogue, shows
>     the true nature of the power-mongers in charge.
>
>
>      India’s Miracle Seeds.  
>     Abstract.  "This is a true story about world hunger and the heroic
>     accomplishments of one human being, an agricultural-genetic
>     genius, to deliver a practical solution.  Beginning with landrace
>     stocks of indigenous food-barley and employing classical “old
>     school” methods of hand-crossing, a deep pool of
>     agronomically-sophisticated food-barley plants was created, then
>     exhaustively scientifically tested and proofed.  A pipeline was
>     readied to deliver the seeds for these plants to the poorest
>     farmers on the planet. 
>
>     “The new plants were highly biologically efficient  capable of
>     high grain yield under low-input and stress conditions. 
>     Nutritionally rich in protein and lysine, the plants are adapted
>     to low-fertility, poor irrigation, and tolerant of alkaline and
>     saline soils, with the capability of yielding 5,000 pounds of
>     grain per acre.”  A major national scientific program had yielded
>     a genuine solution to resolve national and global hunger via a
>     viable set of “miracle seeds” for dispossessed mini-farmers
>     struggling to reach the bottommost rung of the ladder.  Inspected
>     and confirmed by the elite accoladed leaders of Western agronomy’s
>     “green revolution,” the new agricultural invention shone bright
>     with promise. 
>
>     And then, the bottom fell out.  Human avarice staged a violent
>     “scientific assassination”  (the scientific creator of the plants
>     had his career up-ended), production fields holding the
>     irreplaceable seedling genetic-stocks were tractored-down
>     (disked-in at sunset) and the entire foodgrain project was
>     savagely destroyed.  Five of the foodgrain “miracle barley”
>     strains survived and are presented in
>     the Seed Section of this Catalog.  Here is the true story of
>     historic-scale, genuine “good work” and the dark forces that rose
>     up to stop it.   A critical contribution to the literature on the
>     issue of world hunger.  “The seed story of the century.  A must
>     read.” 
>
>     11,000 words.  42 footnotes. 
>     Bibliography.  Profusely illustrated.  2000.  
>
>     Michael Crown
>
>     What we do echoes in Eternity...
>
>     /"There are more things in heaven and earth,
>     Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy"
>     /
>     /Hamlet      /
>
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