Reply #42: I didn't say it was 'the only thing happening' - and thank God it isn't. [View All]

Because merely storing seeds will not protect biodiversity in the food supply.

This is just a spectacular story that appeals to 'Doomsday' thinking - and excessive 'Doomsday' thinking inevitably attracts Doom.

Again, my argument is that focusing on 'storing Doomsday seed' is not an acceptable corrolary to 'rejecting Frankenfood' if you want to protect biodiversity in the food supply. All it does is freeze seeds until AFTER the global starvation. Having those seeds to reintroduce after such a horrific episode might ensure human survival... or might not. We've never tried to recreate a living Earth from frozen seeds. And hopefully we never will - because that would only be possible after one of the worst and most preventable tragedies Humanity could commit (unsound genetic meddling in the biosphere/food supply leading to crashes, disease and extinction).

I hope you understand I'm not condemning the practice of seed storage - I'm only recoiling in disgust at the facile acceptance of (and even intrigue at) storing 'Doomsday' seed. When we hear this story, we should be outraged at the perpetrators of this preventable monopolization of the genetic code of the food supply, not accepting that we've come to storing seeds for after the Fall.