evil seed

man.. today i got up, had a healthy breakfast and got stuck into digging over the area that will soon be my organic vegetable patch.. i would've just used roundup to kill off all the grass like any NORMAL person.. but i'm broke as shit and found that roundup costs HEAPS.. then while researching whether it would be safe to use it in a future vegetable patch, i found out it's a monsanto product.. ahem *wheels out large soap box*... i joined this hippy gardening club a while ago.. they're affiliated with the US "seed savers" so they have all this WILD old world shit like black tomatoes, rainbow colored silverbeet, chocolate capsicums, blood red corn, purple potatoes, tobacco, tea, carob.. no gmo, just real biodiversity that's been handed down from generation to generation and is too fiddly for mass production (hence the obscurity) most of them are called "heirloom vegetables" (some are modern, naturally, cross polinated thingymajigs but still quite above board as far as nature goes).. you have to grow it all from seed but fuck it.. if i make fruit and veg tasier and cuter i will eat them heaps more and that will be most awesome.. and cheap!.. anyhoo in the club newsletter they had this massive article about how the company monsanto had developed a patented technology.. "to create sterile seeds by selectively programming the plants DNA to kill its own embryos" THEN monsanto went and BOUGHT THE WORLD'S LARGEST SEED COMPANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so it goes like this.. farmer buys seed.. farmer grows crop.. crop kills itself so it can't make another crop.. farmer then has to go buy MORE suicide seed from monsanto and is totally enslaved to whatever they want to charge.. CRAZY CRAZY WRONG WRONG, but certainly genius. it's been dubbed 'terminator technology' and is just devoid of fucking logic!!! if we make seeds sterile.. when we run out.. how will we grow our fucking food?! anybody? anybody? answer.. we won't fucking be able to!!! because as complete idiots, we will have fixed our seeds so that NOTHING WILL GROW.. so anyway.. i'm too lazy to be political most of the time but in combination with also being currently poor, i opted to break my back and do it the hard way, and fuck.. it took me four hours to pick axe a 1m x 3m area and sieve out all the roots separate the earth from the clods and turn everything over to a depth of 30cm by the time i have done a whole garden i am going to be either right fit or in intensive care, tomorrow i go with my trusty, rusty, trailer to pick up a load of organic compost then let the ancient seed coddling begin!! mmm chocolate capsicums and concentrically red wand white striped beetroot.. drooooooooool.. PS FUCK MONSANTO!!! until i pave, in which case i will blitz my walkways with my mum's leftover stash that's been sitting in her shed for two years.. unless it's been programmed to render itself useless after six months! morally loose, yes, but do any of you really give a fuck?