Actually people did give a shit about non-replantable seeds, largely because they were angry by the fact that replantable seeds were pointlessly being treated as non-replantable for profit and not for sanity
Agriculture is already wasteful enough as is, does not need to be more so just because; seeds grow plants which grow more seeds
I am sorry, but you just don't know what you are talking about. F1 hybrids cannot be replanted (Well, technically they can, but the offspring lack the parent's quality). F1 hybrids have been used for close to 100 years now. By 1960, virtually all corn grown in the US was hybrid. Rice, wheat, sunflower, sugar beets are all crops which are almost only grown as hybrids in develloped countries.
No, you do not know what I'm talking about. Landraces can be replanted, are replanted and are done so across the world. America is not the world, and it is the country that is most responsible for the rest of the world slowly adopting American crops over their own local seed. It's easy to address criticism when you're not addressing it, and again, America is not in fact the world. Farmers the world over who grow from locally grown seed need not buy seed for they can merely replant their own or that of their neighbour.
Also in more EU noos, given the recent slowdown in growth from BRICS countries threatening to cause a new recession with everyone panicking for little reason, there have been recent calls within the EU for the Krauts in Berlin and Frankfurt to stimulate the economy within the EU to ensure that the Yuros do not befall the same fate as the Yanks and Shanghais of the world. I think it's funnier to post
this from 2013 since peeps have consistently been calling for German overlordship and the Germans for obvious reasons are more content being a Chinese or modern-Russia style hegemon, influence and economic control without any of the downsides of direct political control. This may come as a surprise to hear that I am in favour of French or German domination of Europe, though perhaps it is more accurate to say I am in favour of French or German (or both) dominating the European continent; once the UK is free from the "ever closer union" and is allowed to do its own thing on the world stage I would be much pleased to see the European Empire in the East become its own nation, at least in practice if not also in legality. They've had some setbacks what with some countries regaining borders and control of their own nations but the economy is still dominated by Germany and that's what matters the most. Charlemagne 2: Electric boogaloo indeed. Although I may wish to also see Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Portugal join the UK in its independence fully, for the most part I wish to see what French and German paranoia of American dominance will achieve; the UK stands to profit quite well from such a powerful standoff, and a single Eunited Sates of Europia would in tandem with China be able to bring a considerable bout of prosperity from one corner of the continent to the other. Possibly at the expense of Russia.
Also on the national level in Britpol, amongst labour they've still got their infighting; with moderates fearing they will be purged from the labour party after most of the new labour lot already had a mass exodus from the party when Corby (hard-left leader of the opposition, old school dino socialist marxist, friend of Argentina) won their party election. Amongst libdem well, they haven't been doing much that the media has bothered reporting on. Amongst UKIP they have been busy with the UK referendum, and amongst the Tories a most interesting thing is happening. Theresa May (home secretary, imagine Margaret Thatcher spliced with a 16th century spymaster and you've got her, seems most unforgiving of the three), George Osborne (chancellor of the exchequer, somewhat like a British version of Americans' neocons in that idea of economically conservative but socially liberal, calculative pragmatist) and Boris Johnson (utterly bizarre character, somewhat similar to the Americans' Ron Paul in that idea of a libertarian above party politics, only in Boris's case that also includes being humorously "quirky") have been beefing up their claim to leadership of the Tory party and by extension, claim to leadership of Great Britain come the next general election. With exception to some scandal occurring or political turmoil gripping the nation I imagine 10 years from now the UK's political climate will be split between a hard left and a hard right, gone the centrists of yesterday.
Or perhaps not.
The centrists did plan for this occasion.
In the Portugal their elections saw the Portugal Ahead alliance (centre-right coalition of two centre-right political parties) remain in power despite the European continent's recent leftwards swing in response to austerity of yesteryear. Pedro's centre-rightists are mild euroskeptics, as they're not quite full shitlord like UK ones; they will not campaign for independence, being only wary of closer political union without worrying too much of the negative consequences of EU membership (relative to UK ones anyways). On the topic of austerity,
the Guardian makes the point that Pedro should be wary to conclude that his party's victory is a wide popular endorsement of Portugal's austerity, as the alliance did lose a lot of its voteshare. Second place goes to Portugal's socialist party with 32.4% of the voteshare compared with Portugal Ahead's 38.6%, with Portugal's socialist party
receiving backing from the commies to help end Portuguese austerity if at all possible.
In minor news, the high GBP to NOK and to a lesser extent EU to NOK exchange rate has meant that British and Yuro investors in the Norwegian fish exchange have had quite a fun time, and fishing for these nations will be considerably profitable in spite of market slumps elsewhere in Europe and the world.
Salmon can! This also happened in 2013, perhaps Germany is in fact ruled by a shadow government of fish?
And to recap on the Sep20 elections in Greece, Tsipras and the left-wing Syriza was nearly unseated by the New Democrats, the right wing opposition in Greece. Not by a surge in popularity with the New Democrats, as they stayed relatively the same in terms of support, rather turnout in the elections had dropped to an all time low as Greeks withdrew from the election process, somewhat tired and disillusioned. The not!Nazis remained in third place, which is considerably better than you'd expect considering how hard they got shut down; is it possible to vote for an illegal party?
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