(NaturalNews) Most Natural News readers are into preparedness or self-reliance at some level: they grow a garden, stockpile a bit of food or even just do their own countertop sprouting. Our readers range the gamut from urban hippies to hard-core wilderness survivalists, but the one thing everybody has in common is that they eat food.
Not only do we all eat food; we all need it every few hours. Right after air, water and shelter, food is the fourth most important thing needed to keep you alive. Importantly, when you don’t have food, you can be easily controlled.
Imagine a rogue government that says, “Your food allotment is now tied to how many guns you turn in.” As long as you don’t mind starving, you can keep your guns (or your herbal medicine, heirloom seeds or whatever else the government is targeting for confiscation). But if you want to eat, you must comply.
Control of food is control of humanity. This is, of course, why Monsanto is attempting to control the world’s food supply. There’s no faster way to rise to a position of dictatorial power than to dictate whether people can eat (and what they can grow). This is why Monsanto is one of the greatest long-term threats to the survival of humanity, but that’s a topic for another article.

Stored food isn’t enough

Like me, you probably own a fair amount of stored food. This is food designed to get you through a food supply failure of some sort, and depending on your level of commitment to this stored food, you may have anywhere from 30 days to 2-3 years worth of food stored away.
Regardless of how much food you have stored, it will eventually run out. Sooner or later, you will need a way to produce new food. And that’s a whole different ball game from just storing food: You need to GROW it.
And that means having seeds.
Seeds, if you think about it, are possibly the most miraculous piece of technology in the universe. They are quite literally self-replicating food factories that generate more food and more seeds. The next generation of seeds can then be harvested and planted to produce a new generation of food. I know this sounds remedial — “Yeah, I know how seeds work!” — but have you ever stopped to think about how seeds are a self-replicating food nanotechnology from nature? They even produce their own solar collectors (leaves), and “carbon scrubbers” that pull carbon right out of the air and use it to engineer plant structure (stalks, stems, leaves, flowers, roots, etc.) Plants also grow their own antibiotics right in their roots!
But here’s the kicker: not all seeds are self-replicating. Some seeds, called “hybrid” seeds, only grow one generation of healthy plants. Subsequent generations produce mutants that sharply deviate from the desired outcome, producing stunted growth, or distorted grains, fruits, leaves, etc.
Only so-called “non-hybrid seeds” can be grown generation after generation, reliably and sustainably. That’s why people who grow food for self-reliance always use non-hybrid seeds.
There’s also something called “heirloom seeds,” which simply means they are non-hybrid seeds that have been around for many generations and are proven producers of self-replicating food.
If you hope to survive hard times, food shortages, solar flares, martial law or whatever might be coming our way, you need non-hybrid heirloom seeds that can produce a wealth of food — and that can keep on producing it season after season!

Why seeds will be more valuable than gold

I’ve spoken with people who lived in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation of World War II. Food was extremely scarce because the occupying Japanese army confiscated all farm production (just as Obama promises to do in the United States).
Many Taiwanese starved to death, and the ones who survived did so by growing “stealth gardens” of hidden crops. One of the top lifesaving crops was sweet potatoes, grown in hidden locations unknown to the Japanese soldiers. To this day, many senior citizens living in Taiwan who survived Japanese occupation will not eat sweet potatoes because they are still sick of them.
During these hard times, food was the currency, not gold. If you tried to acquire something with gold — such as renting an apartment — you were laughed at. But if you brought food, you had a deal!
Gold can’t keep you alive. Food can. History has shown than when push comes to shove, food is far more valuable than gold. A starving man will give you every last ounce of his gold in exchange for one meal of food.
Think about that for a minute as you ponder your preparedness strategy. I’m not saying you shouldn’t own any gold or silver, but seeds are a far more universally valuable barter item because they are a technology that can produce food. Gold can’t grow more gold, and silver can’t grow more silver, but seeds can grow food and produce more seeds, and that’s as close to a miracle as you’ll probably ever see in this lifetime.

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