Crowdfunding 11th Hour — Urbsly

April 13th, 2013 by Zachary Shahan

While we don’t generally inch into the food or agriculture realm too often, we have done so a handful of times (and biotech does count as tech in some circles). In my opinion, and that of many scientists, the safety of GMOs is not yet confirmed (which is partly why they are still nearly banned in Europe). Furthermore, on the socioeconomic side of things, I’m frankly not all that into a few companies monopolizing our food supply, which is what companies such as Monsanto have targeted. So, to support a great project to create an “open data catalog of seeds,” I’m sharing this post below. The project just has a few days left to hit its crowdfunding target, so if you are into it and have some money to spare, drop them some change via the link above.

Urbsly — Fund This Open Data Catalog Of Seeds (via Planetsave)

While we all play on our computers, watch movies and TV, and… blog, one of the key components of our life support system is increasingly controlled (even owned) by a small handful of companies. As you probably gathered from the title, I’m talking about the essence of our food system, our seeds.…

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Tags: food, monsanto, no post, urbsly

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