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Politics : Actual left/right wing discussion
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To: TimF who wrote (771)9/14/2006 10:42:29 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 10087
 
Not confined to GMO; more like a triopoly of the world's seeds. Or maybe a quadopoly.

This is interesting (to me). I was googling to see if I invented triopoly (nope) and found this under biopoly... and it turns out the article is about "who owns rice". Yeah, owns; but I digress...

Thirty-eight years later, as the United Nations dedicates 2004 to the world’s most important staple food once again, celebrating it as the International Year of Rice, the starchy grain has undergone a complete metamorphosis. In 1966, the miracle rice seeds that ushered in the green revolution belonged to the species – Oryza sativa -- a mankind’s heritage. Since the time the indica variety of wild rice was known to be growing in the northern and southern slopes of the Himalayas – and that was some 15,000 years ago – rice has been regarded as probably God’s greatest gift to human society.
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This looked like an article written in code. In my area, indica and sativa don't refer to rice.
I wonder what happens if you smoke this stuff.
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