The twin values of an indigenous seed bank

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1. We have lost diversity of seeds as well.

Studies have shown that the heirloom seeds provide greater nutrition than the GMO varieties—and they aren’t engineered with Roundup. We should all be asking why we have such an unhealthy population compared with other developed countries, and thus worse results from Covid-19. Almost every processed food, including savory soups, have sugar added and that adds lots of calories but no nutrition.

I would love to see more government subsidies taken away from corn producers and given to organic vegetable producers so that their prices can be afforded by everyone. Many rural areas have been taken over by big agribusiness that pumps crops full of chemicals and drives small farmers our of business. And, like the fossil fuel industry, they get billions of our tax dollars in subsidies every year.