RE: [CH] Seed Trading
Pieters, Rob (rob.pieters@honeywell.com)
Thu, 24 Feb 2000 08:38:56 -0000
Dave wrote;
>
> Some great responses from everyone. But, what about seeds
> from a plant
> infected with a virus? The virus is in the seeds cells and
> can not be
>
Back from lurking again and far behind reading all post, I do like this
interesting discussion on seed trade.
As I'm not so long around in the world of growing my own peppers, I do know
there is always a risk when people moves living things around the world
(even thereselfs, carrying all kind of diseases around the globe)
There are many examples where we have introduced animals and vegetables in
foreign fauna.
Some are developed as a pest and some has brought our economic development
at the level it is now.
A simple thing is the potato's we grow in Holland, they're original from the
America, our magnificent flower bulbs we export al over the world... are
originally from Turkey. Rabbits in Australia are from England...etc etc.
With this in mind we can say there is always a risk introducing a new
species but when you do it in a controlled way and when you know which risks
there are I don't think its a problem.
So my idea of this is, and this is what I'm doing, and I do hope I get some
comments on this is;
1 I only grow foreign seeds in a pot, I don't plant it directly in the
garden, only after the first season when it stayed healthy.
2.When I don't trust a plant or when I spot a disease, I don't just throw
the plant away, but I burn it including the soil.
Two simple rules, and if I can add one or two point to make it even more
safe even better.
Any how, if you think back a few million years the world (the dry part) was
one, and all species were every where.
But due to the separation and following out of that the change of climate,
some species died and some developed there selves to survive....
What's life without risk?
Let spread our seeds all over the world, if we don't do it some one else
will, or has done it when we speak.
Generic manipulation of things in the food chain is something to be scared
off this has nothing to do with nature.
GM is building nuclear power in food... and I don't mean the heat level
here!
Hot regards
Rob NL