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Sterilization of the Russian population using GMOs
Sterilization of the Russian population using GMOs

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There are five million families in Russia who cannot have children. Experts from the Nationwide Association for Genetic Safety have begun to figure out what is the reason for the increase in the population of sterile couples. Experts made a request to the Krasnodar cattle breeding farm to receive feed for livestock. Upon arrival, the food was handed over to the laboratory, where it was examined. The food was found to contain GMOs. What is curious! According to the characteristics declared by the manufacturers, the feed does not contain GM-inclusions. The research results showed the opposite.

Also, the Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences conducted an experiment on animals that were fed with this food. Already in the first generation of born animals, suppression of growth, development and impaired reproductive function was noted. Those. the animals were sterile.

Thus, the fact of the influence of GMOs on reproductive function was recorded.

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) were invented specifically for the mass murder of the population of our planet. This must be well understood and always remembered. All other conversations are skillful disguise and misinformation …

There is a myth that GMOs are safe for animals and humans.

But this is not the case. Numerous studies have shown that GMO consumption leads to:

- to the pathology of internal organs;

- to the formation of tumors;

- to a change in hormonal levels;

- to infertility in animals and humans.

We are gradually becoming hostages of cannibals who force us to feed on the poison they produce and sell to us at exorbitant prices. If we do not begin to actively resist, then we will not last long - we will die out cleanly.

The country's top officials cannot agree on the attitude towards genetically modified products. Vladimir Putin demanded to develop a program to ban the import of GMOs, in response to this Medvedev signed a decree on the cultivation of transgenic plants in Russia. Public organizations that consider GMOs hazardous to health, in turn, sue the government.

Where did the old varieties of vegetables disappear and who benefits from it? What to do?

The best way to deal with multinationals that deal with agrochemistry and seeds is to do without them - boycott. Those who have tried our old varieties of tomatoes think they will want to return to hybrid, chemical ones. Not! Because our tomatoes are real, they taste … Dominique Guilier, founder of the Kokopelli Association, which produces and distributes old vegetable seeds.

Where did the old varieties of vegetables go? 2011-05-01 Evgeniya Shuvaeva Project manager PRAsemena. For several months I have been rummaging in libraries, looking for information about old, primordially Russian varieties of vegetables, primarily about those that have been cultivated since ancient times in Russia: about cucumbers, cabbage, onions, garlic, carrots, beets. I read pre-revolutionary books about vegetable growing and old Russian varieties, study scientific reports and reports of Soviet breeding stations of the first half of the twentieth century, read modern publications about vegetables. I am trying to understand what we had, what was done with it, and where now to look for all this. I am looking for traces of the heritage that our ancestors left us, I am clarifying for myself the origin of the first breeding varieties, which have not yet gone so far from the old local progenitor varieties, as modern varieties and hybrids.

In the 19th century, vegetables of the same old varieties, grown by Russian gardeners, took first places at agricultural exhibitions, thundered all over Europe. The seeds of these vegetables and the vegetables themselves were successfully sold and exported in large quantities abroad, were popular there.

Where is it all? Where did it go? Where are the Muromsky, Vyaznikovsky, Borovsky, Akselsky, Golakhovsky, Nezhinsky, Crimean cucumbers? Where is Kolomenskaya cabbage (in Europe it was called gigantic for its enormous size), Kashirka, Saburovka, Kaporka, Valvatievskaya, Bronka, Ladozhskaya, Revelskaya? There are none, you can't find them in the daytime with fire, except that the collections of research institutions are gathering dust (many of our famous varieties of cucumbers and cabbage did not participate in the selection), but maybe somewhere in very remote villages with old grandmothers and Old Believers in Siberian wilderness. Maybe collectors have something? We must search … be sure to search. Because we do not keep what we have, having lost crying.

And now we are on the verge of losing all that genetic diversity of cultivated varieties of vegetables that our ancestors have created and maintained for centuries. The most affordable way to get seeds of old local varieties of vegetables is to look for those that are still included in the State Register of Varieties, which means they are produced by seed companies. The truth here, too, has its own nuances: it is important to understand where which variety came from, and in what way it was bred. Of the old breeding cabbage varieties included in the State Register, only two varieties have Russian origin: Moskovskaya late 15 (selected from an old local variety of the Moscow region - Pyshkenskaya) and Belorusskaya 455 (selected from a local variety of Belarus). The rest of the old varieties obtained in the 20-30s of the twentieth century are of foreign origin: Amager 611, Slava 1305, Slava Gribovskaya 231, Number one Gribovsky 147, Number one polar by 206. I began to look for where you can buy seeds of old varieties of vegetables, at least those that are included in the State Register.

And if things are a little better with cabbage (in the catalogs and price lists of many seed-growing companies, I often met old varieties of cabbage included in the State Register), then with the seeds of cucumbers there is a complete disaster …

Those who purposefully looked for such seeds will understand me. In most online stores and "advanced" seed-growing forms, all F1 hybrids of Russian, Dutch, German production (and other countries). Occasionally you come across varieties, but new ones, at best it happens to be Graceful, Kustovoy, Competitor, which are now considered "old", but still they do not pull on them (obtained in the 60-80s of the twentieth century). In the prices of just a few seed companies (you can count on the fingers of one hand) I found seeds of old varieties Muromsky 36, Vyaznikovsky 37, Far East 27, Nezhinsky 12. In addition, on the website of the originator of varieties Muromsky 36 and Vyaznikovsky 37 (former Gribovsky vegetable station, now VNIISSOK) found a description of these varieties in the catalog of varieties obtained in this research institute. In the price list of VNIISSOKA, the seeds of old varieties of cucumbers were not indicated, but I nevertheless called the store at the institute - to clarify, maybe some seeds of old varieties were lying around or a new arrival is expected.

The answer to the question about the presence of seeds of old varieties of cucumbers, in particular Muromsky 36 and Vyaznikovsky 37, stunned me … On the phone they said that there were no seeds of these varieties, because the varieties were LOST! (TNK Monsanto, of course, nothing to do with it! … - note by the compiler of the doc.) Let me remind you that it was at the Gribovskaya vegetable station (now VNIISSOK) that these varieties were bred. Lost … I don't even know what it's called … In general, it's very sad. So the varieties are lost, they said on the phone that sometimes seeds of these old varieties of cucumbers from other seed companies are brought to their store. I phoned several more seed companies - in the price list of one of them 4 old varieties were declared (Muromsky 36, Vyaznikovsky 37, Nezhensky 12, Dalnevostochny 27). True, they said on the phone that there are 2-3 of them and, of course, there is no Murom cucumber … Eh, the Murom cucumber, the most ancient and famous Russian variety has been known since the 13th century, to this day is included in the State Register, even in every modern book, which is replete with descriptions of the newest varieties and hybrids, this variety must be described as "An old local variety of the Vladimir region, improved by the Gribovskaya vegetable station …"

I phoned a few more firms, in the price lists of which these old varieties appeared - at best there were 3 (varieties), somewhere two, one and Muromsky was not available. There are many firms and shops where there are no old varieties at all, there are many such seed shops where there are generally 5-6 non-hybrid varieties for 20 hybrids, well, the pinnacle of everything, firms selling exclusively hybrids, and even foreign selection.

But the Dutch (TNK Monsanto - approx. Compiler of the doc.) Love to use our Murom cucumber in breeding, such an early ripening, cold-resistant and prolific variety that our ancestors bred and preserved for centuries. But now, in the daytime with fire, you have to look for the primordially Russian Murom cucumber, although it is in the State Register.

But, luck smiled at me, in one company I, nevertheless, found the seeds of the Murom cucumber! There are also seeds of Vyaznikovsky and Far East. Tomorrow I am going urgently for seeds, otherwise they will suddenly run out. Old varieties - what is it 2011-28-10 Evgeniya Shuvaeva Project manager PRAsemena. In the newspaper Rodovaya Zemlya in the September issue # 9 of 2011, our article was published under the heading “Why the hybrid has no future”. This article is written to explain why older varieties are best for growing on your estate. We tried to write not just certain arguments, but revealed all the mechanisms and factors that affect the growth of plants.

So that everyone has a clear understanding of why the old varieties are better.

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Old varieties - what is it

Many of us remember the mention in the books of the "Ringing Cedars of Russia" series about real primordial seeds and primordial apple trees.

Many have heard about old varieties of vegetables, they know that it is preferable to grow them on their estate, however, not everyone knows how old varieties differ from new varieties and hybrids (we are not talking about genetically modified products now, because it is clear that their cultivation and eating unacceptably) and why we prefer to grow the old ones. Let's try to figure out what's what.

What are the old varieties of vegetables, cereals, legumes and fruit crops? How do they differ from new varieties, hybrids and transgenic plants? Why is it the older varieties that are best suited for growing on the estate in natural farming (permaculture)?

First you need to figure out what we want and expect from the plants that we are going to grow on our estate and use for food.

On the one hand, everyone wants to eat and feed their family with natural healthy medicinal products, rich in biologically active substances and minimally modified by selection, which have not been touched by genetic engineering.

On the other hand, we all want to organize our economy so that we do as little as possible caring for plants and at the same time get a good harvest of tasty and healthy fruits, without using artificial fertilizers and growth stimulants, chemicals to fight diseases and pests.

This means that we need very unpretentious tenacious independent plants with tasty and healthy fruits that can bring a good harvest with minimal interference on our part.

What is the difference between old varieties and new varieties and hybrids, and what are the reasons for this difference?

We list some properties of old varieties that are important for us (in connection with the above):

1. Unpretentiousness

Old varieties can grow in semi-wild conditions of permaculture, do not need a high level of modern agricultural technology (feeding with artificial fertilizers, protection from diseases and pests with the help of special chemicals, total destruction of weeds) and can even "forgive" some mistakes in agricultural technology (i.e. some of our small cultivation mistakes will not have an overall effect on the crop).

Of course, this does not mean at all that plants of old varieties will be able to grow in the desert, without water, soil or in the Arctic ice without shelter, etc. They, of course, need to create good, acceptable living conditions (which, in fact, gives permaculture) - they will create the rest for themselves and bring a harvest.

You should not have any illusions on this score and you need to understand the difference between creating the necessary conditions (carefully observing the growth of plants, adjusting, if required) on the one hand and daily care (watering, fertilizing, spraying against diseases and pests, weed control) with the other side.

This can be compared with the famous catch phrase: to feed a person, you can bring him fish and then bring him every day, or you can teach him to fish yourself. So in the case of permaculture and old varieties, we create conditions, i.e. We give the plants the opportunity to get the necessary food for themselves and on their own to defend and adapt. And in the case of traditional agricultural technology and new hybrid varieties, we have to “bring them fish” every day - that is, supply power, protect from adverse environmental influences, etc.

2. Plasticity

It should be noted here that one of the most important properties of the variety for us is its ability to adapt (adapt) to certain environmental conditions and cultivation technologies. So, depending on the degree of manifestation of this property, varieties are divided into:

Plastic- varieties with a wide adaptability.

Non-plastic - varieties with a narrow adaptive capacity.

Old varieties of cultivated plants are plastic.

This means that when environmental conditions change: with weather anomalies or in the case of growing in a different climatic zone (different from the one where the seeds of this plant were obtained and where the generations of its ancestors grew), the plant has much more chances to survive, to bring a crop, to give viable offspring and to transfer to them these newly acquired properties (resistance to all experienced anomalies and adaptation to new soil and climatic conditions) at the genetic level.

3. The ability to give viable offspring, to be preserved in the process of reproduction

A). Old varieties give viable offspring (seeds) in contrast to genetically modified plants and some hybrid varieties, incapable of reproducing themselves.

B). In addition, varieties, especially old ones (in them this ability has been tested and consolidated for centuries), are capable of retaining their valuable unique properties inherent in a particular variety (if seed production is carried out with spatial isolation of varieties and species that can be over-pollinated).

V). Moreover, plants of old varieties are more capable of accumulating (due to the wide ability to adapt) and transmitting to their offspring useful traits acquired by them in the process of life (resistance to abnormal weather conditions, adaptation to the soil and climatic conditions of a particular area and site where they grow).

4. High content and balanced (harmonious) combination of biologically active substances

The richest in biologically active substances and the least modified by selection are wild edible plants. Of the cultivated plants that we grow in our gardens and orchards, the plants of old local varieties are the closest to wild edible plants in origin (genetically), in properties and composition.

A good example is old wheat varieties (wheat cannot "run wild", it does not have wild species) spelled, spelled - the unique nutritional properties of which strikingly distinguish them from the "younger" species and varieties of wheat.

For comparison, we will characterize the new varieties according to similar qualitative characteristics:

Unlike older varieties new varieties and hybrids are very demanding on growing conditions and are dependentsince man taught them that he protects and protects them from all external influences, supplies them with water and nutrients. As a result, new varieties and hybrids are such capricious "greenhouse" creatures, incapable of independent life without human participation.

New varieties and hybrids are not plastic, or less plastic than old ones, that is, it is difficult for them to adapt to abnormal (heat, drought, wet or cool summer) or new conditions for them, or even impossible, and even more difficult to wait from them in such conditions harvest.

In addition, hybrids are unable to transmit their properties to offspring. In their offspring, the so-called splitting of traits occurs. This means that by collecting and sowing seeds from a hybrid plant, we get an incomprehensible mixture of variegated plants, not all of which will bring a decent harvest. Genetically modified plants, as well as some hybrids, are generally not capable of producing viable seeds, i.e. they are sterile.

The biochemical composition of the fruits of plants of new varieties and hybrids is poorer than that of old varieties. A decrease in the content of biologically active substances in the fruits of plants of new varieties and hybrids can be seen by comparing them with wild ones, as well as with old varieties.

It is easy to trace how with the acquisition of some so-called economically valuable properties, other important properties were lost: smells - ethers, taste, useful microelements.

Thus, plants were bred with larger fruits, but a weakened taste and smell (a good example for comparison is wild strawberry and garden strawberry). Fruits that should tolerate transportation well, have lost their delicate juicy consistency and at the same time their rich taste (tomatoes of old and new varieties).

Old varieties of cucumbers (non-hybrid, bee-pollinated) much tastier new self-pollinated varieties and hybrids. Old types and varieties of wheat, if compared in terms of their biochemical composition with new varieties, also significantly surpass the latter in terms of protein content and other important components.

What explains such a fundamental difference between old varieties and new varieties and hybrids?

1. Genotypic heterogeneity (a wide range of genes), characteristic of most old varieties, and, on the contrary, the genotypic homogeneity of new varieties and hybrids.

Old varieties are mostly varieties-populations.

Variety-population - a variety of cross-pollinating or self-pollinating culture, obtained by mass selection and representing a set of genotypically different plants.

The key point here is that with similarity in external traits (phenotype), as well as similarity (alignment) in economically valuable traits (early maturity, keeping quality, taste), and the ability to transmit these traits to offspring, plants of old local varieties have one varieties are slightly different set of genes (genotype).

By this property (difference in genotype with similarity in appearance), the old local varieties are very similar to the wild species from which they actually originated. This means that they obey the same environmental laws as wild plants in natural nature. In this case, one of the most important property of cultivated plants of old varieties is their ability to adapt to various changes in the environment. This is due precisely to the presence within one variety-population of plants with a similar, but not identical set of genes (genotype). A large set of different genes within one variety-population gives the population a chance to survive at the expense of those plants, the genetic set of which allows one way or another to adapt to new environmental conditions. It is this phenomenon that determines such a property of old varieties as plasticity.

New varieties and even more so hybrids do not have such a variety of genes in stock as population varieties. In the case of new varieties, this is the result of striving for the sameness plants, alignment fruits in size, shape, ripening time, because it facilitates care, allows you to mechanize the process of harvesting and processing.

In case of hybrids - there can be no talk of any kind of genotype diversity at all, since plants belonging to the same hybrid variety have almost identical genotype.

2. Testing by time (these are not empty words - but a normal experimental process).

Plants of old varieties for decades, centuries have been tested and adapted to different climatic conditions in certain areas, survived in various abnormal weather conditions, while maintaining their individual varietal properties. Plants of old varieties passed on to their offspring the ability to survive in all the variety of conditions that they themselves and their ancestors experienced. New varieties and hybrids, to put it mildly, cannot boast of such a long period of field trials in various climatic and soil conditions.

Moreover, the newer the variety, the less was its probationary period (before, before admitting a variety to the State Register, it was tested much longer and more thoroughly than now).

Accumulate and transmit useful traits to offspring, in new varieties there was simply no time! And hybrids, as we remember, generally do this not capable.

Seed catalog Gracheva E. A. (1898). Pdf

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