Help us stop over 300 nonprofit seed libraries in the U.S. from being regulated out of existence due to misapplication of seed laws by several state departments of agriculture! Sign here: legalizeseeds.org The Wall Street Journal on how this is unfolding in Pennsylvania: A crackdown by Pennsylvania regulators on a seed exchange at a small library has put gardeners and advocates of locally grown organic food on alert across the country... Some advocates are pushing to exempt libraries from state seed laws. The laws primarily were intended to regulate commercial ventures, protect farmers and prevent the spread of dangerous plants on a huge scale, said Neil Thapar, a staff attorney with the Sustainable Economies Law Center in Oakland, Calif. wsj/articles/gardeners-on-alert-as-pennsylvania-targets-risks-of-seed-exchanges-1408626463
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 02:10:15 +0000