hello samira,
you wrote:
>Can anyone refer me to good sources of certified organic seeds?=20
>
>Especially clover seed? I have found some sites such as Seeds of Change =
>but wondered whether there are any other contacts internationally - they =
>don't have to have website!
>
i'like to draw your interest to the following webside :
(it holds the summaries of an expert hearing on gene technology
and their implications on sustainable and organic agriculture.
there also are some texts on the philosophy of nature throughout
the centuries.
esp. one article seems to be highly interesting for you:
"Sustainable Organic Plant Breeding" by Edith Lammerts van
Bueren et al. (417kb in 14 files) [32].
the adresses for organic plant breeders can be found in one of the
two last files, don't remember any more, which of the two. sorry ALL
are european breeders.
this one might also be esp. interesting for breeders like dale
wilson/pioneer, as the articles sum up the reasons, why
conventional breeders should engage more in special breeding
programs like organic farming and why organic farmers should not
only lament about the overwhelming amount of varieties for
conventional farming, but also clearly state, WHAT properties they
wish to see developped by breeders..
i just try to write an article on an important grain property,
where a property usually seem as negative, for some farmers tends
to shift to a positive one:
conventional farmers prefer short-strawed varieties, while
organic farmers TEND to prefer the long-strawed ones (although
that's a risk with liquid manure). as things seem to
develop in germany, the price for wheat straw has reached a
level, which is almost twice as high as the price for the same
weight of grain !! i don't know the relation between grain:stalk
in the different cereals yet, but for corn meanwhile it usually
reaches a 1:1 relation and i assume from observation, that this
is also the case for grain. this makes long-straw varieties
economically highly competitive to the short-straw ones even with
long-range transportation costs. not only can farmers sell the
grain with only marginally reduced yields, but also the straw.
and in regions with hig milk-production there already are some
"grain-only"-farmers, who consider grain yield a secondary
option. there's a real lack of straw for barns and pigsties here
!! i'm aware, that these conditions are more valid in europe than
in northern america or africa.
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Articles on Ifgene Web Site
Pollen dispersion of transgenic plants:
remarks and conclusions
Klaus Ammann, Botanical Garden, University of Bern, Bern,
Switzerland
"What Is the Reality of a Gene?" by Johannes Wirz [7]
"Hidden Inheritance" by Gail Vines [8]
"Manipulating consciousness with advertising strategies" by
Ingeborg Woitsch [9]
Risk assessment and criteria for commercial
launch of transgenic plants
David M. Stark, NatureMark, Monsanto, Chesterfield, USA
"Transgenic Transgression of Species Integrity and Species
Boundaries" by Mae-Wan Ho and Beatrix Tappeser [11]
"The Value of Biotechnology As an Incentive for Moral
Evolution" by John Armstrong [12]
"An Interview with Professor Brian Goodwin" by David King
[13]
"Progress towards complimentarity in genetics" by Johannes
Wirz [14]
"Do the Genes Justify the Means?" by Pat Cheney [15]
"Reductionism and Organicism in Science" by Henk Verhoog
[16]
" Genetics and ethics - The difference between inorganic and
organic nature in theory and practice" by Rist & Rist [18]
"Ecology Versus Genetics--Two Opposite Tendencies within the
Sciences of Life" by Trond Skaftnesmo [19]
"Transcending Darwinism in the Spirit of Goethe's Science: A
Philosophical Perspective on the Works of Adolf Portmann" by
Hjalmar Hegge [20]
"Ecological cereal breeding and genetic engineering" by
Christine Karutz [22]
"Dialogue on risk assessment of transgenic plants:
Scientific, technological and societal perspectives"
Proceedings of a conference on 28th October 1997 at the
Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland [24]
'Plant Biotechnology: Facts and Public Perception' by Donald
Boulter [25]
'Transgenic plant technology; threat or promise?' by
Jonathan Jones [26]
'The Nuffield Panel's Blunders' by George Monbiot [27]
CornerHouse Briefing No 10, October 1998: Food? Health?
Hope? -- Genetic Engineering and World Hunger, by Sarah
Sexton, Nicholas Hildyard and Larry Lohmann [28]
"Beans Means Genes - Transgenic crops and food: a threat to
cultural freedom?" by David Heaf [29]
GeneWatch Briefing No. 3: "Genetic Engineering: Can it feed
the world?" [30]
"Cashing in on Life - Operation Terminator" by Jean-Pierre
Berlan and Richard C. Lewontin [31]
"Sustainable Organic Plant Breeding" by Edith Lammerts van
Bueren et al. (417kb in 14 files) [32]
"Organic farming and genetic pollution from genetically
modified crops" by David J. Heaf [33]
"Genetic modification of animals: Should science and ethics
be integrated?" by Henk Verhoog [35]
"Genetics and Medicine" (English translation of Grünewald's
article) [38]
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Site notes:
[7] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/wirz1.htm
[8] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/vines.htm
[9] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/woitsch.htm
[11] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/ho.htm
[12] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/contents.htm
[13] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/goodwin.htm
[14] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/wirzcomp.htm
[15] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/cheney.htm
[16] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/verhoog.htm
[18] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/risteng.htm
[19] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/skaf.htm
[20] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/hegge.htm
[22] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/karutz.htm
[23] http://www.biogene.org/themen/saatgut/getgen.html
[24] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/riskass.htm
[25] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/boulter.htm
[26] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/jones.htm
[27] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/monbiot.htm
[28] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/cornrhse.htm
[29] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/heaf.htm
[30] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/genwatch.htm
[31] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/lewontin.htm
[32] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/breed1.htm
[33] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/heaf2.htm
[35] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/verhoog1.htm
[38] http://www.anth.org/ifgene/grun2.htm
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