Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Historical context of seeds...


About 11,000 to 12,000 years ago, humans started shifting away frim hunting and gathering and towards agriculture, beginning by preferentially encouraging and selecting favorite wild food plants. this shift created an interdependent relationship between humans and a small number of domesticated crops. favored plants adapted to human  needs, and as they gradually become dependent on humans survive, we concurrently came to depend on thier cultivation for our survival. once sowing was discovered, seads come to be valued as the source of future sustenance and people began to selectively save seads, to covet and protect them.....
All kinds of seeds are imporant, and just like in the movie we saw, seeds are very very  important and they have there own companies that run the whole thing. and what had stuck with me was that they would seal some to others but they were not alowed to grow them the next year with the same DNA seed that they have given them, and if they did they would be sued and they would loose everything.

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