Controlling Seeds
Lyrics and music by Tony Avila
The breeders discovered a way to control
Yield, protein quality, disease resistance and more
Using hybrid breeding techniques
Highly beneficial to the companies selling seeds
Seed companies created dependence
With a monopoly on seeds
Controlling parent lines
Selling only hybrids
Hybrid breeding techniques
Takes 2 parent lines create
Hybrids are only stable for one generation
The seeds don’t reproduce
Smaller seed companies were assimilated
By chemical and pharmaceutical companies
Hybrids are a dead end and do not evolve
Which keeps you coming back for more
Seed Monopolies (x2)
Concentrating power into the hands of the few
Manipulating the food supply, only benefiting you
Sustainable agriculture gone, yes we’ve been robbed
It’s time to find out what we can do.
Seed Monopolies (x4)