(NaturalNews) From the looks of an average produce section in a typical
American supermarket, it might seem like modern society has access to
basically every major type of fruit, vegetable and herb one could want.
But a survey conducted by the U.S. National Seed Storage Laboratory back
in 1983 found that the diversity of our food supply has been
progressively shrinking since 1903 when a previous seed stock inventory
was taken, with fewer than one-twelfth the number of unique crop
varieties available today compared to 100 years ago.
Known today
as the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation (NCGRP), the
laboratory collected seed data on 10 common produce items: beets,
cabbages, sweet corn, lettuces, muskmelons, peas, radishes, squashes,
tomatoes and cucumbers. NCGRP compared the availability of seeds for
each of these items in 1903 to their availability in 1983, which was
still long before the time genetically modified organisms (GMOs) hit the
scene.
No comments:
Post a Comment