argylesock says… Who can it help to regulate seed varieties so tightly? It won’t help farmers. It won’t help growers. It won’t help anybody to respond to new challenges – pests, diseases, climate change, population growth. I think the only people this new law would help are the people who own biotech companies. Is there a petition against this proposed new law? If you see one, please tell me and I’ll publicise it on my blog.
Cross Posted from Real Seeds
On Monday May 6th a draconian new law will be put before the European Commission, which creates new powers to classify and regulate all plant life anywhere in Europe.
The “Plant Reproductive Material Law” will regulate all plants. It contains immediate restrictions on reproduction of vegetables and woodland trees, while creating powers to restrict all other plants of any other species at a later date.
Under the new law, it will immediately be illegal to grow, reproduce or trade any vegetable seed or tree that has not been tested, approved and accepted by a new “EU Plant Variety Agency”. Moreover, an annual fee must also be paid to the Agency if that particular variety is to be used by anyone.
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Sam,
Is this what you’re looking for?
http://www.saveourseeds.org/en/petition.html
Thanks Tony, yes that’s the one. In fact it’s the same petition I linked to a few days ago. For some reason your link got a ‘page not found’ message from its ‘sign as an individual’ button but the petition is here http://www.saveourseeds.org/en/activities/get-involved/petition-seed-regulation.html
Have you thought of contacting AVAAZ, the big guns for protest? You can Google them and get them to take up a cause like this….
I’ve linked to some Avaaz petitions from this blog, but for this particular issue I linked to a petition at Save Our Seeds.
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