The campaign free seeds aims to conserve the European agricultural history, preventing the creation of a legislation that aims to outlaw traditional plantings.
Ten thousand years ago the man changed the course of his life when he discovered that could sow the land to ensure this subsistence. An important milestone in the history of human being, because it allowed to evolve into an unimagined progress, stop being nomadic to a sedentary lifestyle that prevails to this day. Agriculture becomes so crucial as a mechanism of propagation of our species, because a population nourished, grows and thrives.
The sowing has been for millennias a practice that became common to farmers worldwide. They collected the seeds of the best fruits, vegetables and cereals which were then passed from generation to generation for future harvests. Over time, with particular emphasis on the 20th century, with the mechanization of agricultural work, the appearances of pesticides and the creation of hybrid species in laboratories, the habit of storing several variety plants was lost and now the loss of agricultural biodiversity worldwide is around 75%, according to FAO (United Nations Organization for Agriculture and Food).
With the growing interest in organic farming and creation of community gardens, have also increased the number of people who intend to return to basics. Resume the habit of collecting seeds, exchange and preservation thus contributing to a better environment and a wider variety best suited to different soils and climates of each country.
The Campaign for Free Seed was the result of a European initiative with chapters in most Member States of the European Union with the aim of reversing, as stated: "new legislation to be proposed by the European Commission to restrict the free movement of breeding and seed varieties of agricultural plant closing previously belonging to the common good in patents and outlaw unregistered varieties. The new 'Law on Seeds' aims to remove the role of curator of seed to farmers, a role he played as a boost to all mankind. " In our country, the campaign was energized by the Open Field, GAIA, Motion Pro Information for Citizenship and the Environment, Platform Transgenic Out and Quercus, were delivered in Lisbon on April thousand signatures in order to not approve this package Laws, a grand total of one million people who have joined the initiative. The vote is scheduled for June 7 and hopefully the majority of 736 MEPs choose the path of liberalization, not restriction. Hope is the last to die.
