We want to recognize that agriculture is essentially an endeavour that recognizes some degree of epistemic plurality. One of them is the industrial model of agricultural production. Definitely, as an immigrant country and civilization, we had no choice when we moved over here and needed to really feed the population.
We are a highly industrialized country, as well. But whenever you have a system that supports only one epistemic way of knowing or doing something, and that one is dominant, the pathway we are treading is one whereby in the next 10 years there might not be anybody who is even dealing with traditional landraces. What we're trying to do is to let them have the opportunity to operate competitively or somehow or other to be self-sustaining in the market. And food is also about culture.
The point I've been making is that we can have the two systems coexist, but we do not want to muzzle the farmer's ability to use farm-saved seeds, even—