Whether you love or hate the government and its many laws which are often lobbied for by corporate interests, it’s safe to say that most people are in agreement that saving seeds and sharing them with the community should be a human right. After all this is the way that staple foods are passed down generation to generation, not to mention saving and sharing seeds is a HUGE part of cultural identity and food security.

I like the way Dr. Vandana Shiva puts it: “The desire to save seeds comes from an ethical urge to defend life’s evolution.” Dr. Shiva has always frankly stated, “Seeds are life” and by golly that is as true as it gets! Seeds are the most basic renewable, sustainable, and culturally unique form of life that there is. Throughout history countless cultures would have starved off to near extinction if seed sharing had been forbidden! Why? Many people depend on it, and for good reason!

If you have ever grown a garden and witnessed the ease and magic of creating your own nourishing food you know exactly how important it is to be self-reliant. Even if gardening isn’t something you actively partake in, knowing how to create your own sustenance is a vital part of preparing for the worst (and maintaining the best). Without delving too far into collapse-like scenarios just consider the historically recent United States great depression. The situation was bad enough claiming the lives of over 8 Million Americans. Now imagine if seed sharing had been dubbed illegal prior to this famine. How many more Americans would have starved to death?

You don’t even need to be anti-corporate America or by any means a “conspiracy theorist” to oppose this. Whether an unjust legal system fueled by corporate lobbying and greed is literally behind this silly law or not, you should sign the petition below to lift the illegality of gifting seeds to your community. Hopefully this isn’t anything lobbied for by such corporate seed-patenting interests such as Monsanto, DuPont, Bayer, etc. and is just a symptom of having too many laws that eventually converge onto one another (but I wouldn’t put it past big-biotech!) Either way, most can agree that there is nothing wrong with saving seeds from your garden and passing them on to a fellow (struggling) gardener.

We urge you to share and sign this petition and let your state officials know that this is something you strongly oppose. It will only take you seconds to make it known loud and clear that you believe saving seed is a human right and that dependence on corporations should be a choice, not necessity.

SIGN THE PETITION NOW!

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