Last week’s appearance of Eric Massa on Fox News’ “Glenn Beck Show” created more fodder for humor with the Establishment Media. Tickle-gate was a fun topic for many. But even more reaction was drawn from one of Glenn’s new sponsors, selling non-hybrid ’survival seeds’. MSNBC’s Chuck Todd and even Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart, made much ‘hay’ over this, pardon the pun. Organic gardening and heirloom seeds are no laughing matter!
The commercial claimed that germinating seeds are a good investment, whose value may increase faster than gold. Gold is another item which Glenn has several sponsors for. While Todd and Stewart laughed it up, several news items broke late last week about rising prices on hybrid seeds. Bloomberg reported an average increase of 38% in just the past year. The New York Times reported corn seed was up 32% and soy bean seeds up 24%. Had Todd and Stewart taken Beck’s sponsor seriously, they might have been laughing all the way to the bank!
Hybrid seeds are genetically engineered for maximum yield, product consistency and resistance to disease. Many hybrid seeds, however, are one-shot deals. Plant them, grow them and harvest and buy more seed next year. Non-hybrid, germinating seeds, on the other hand, produce plenty of additional seeds, giving you a virtually endless supply year after year.
Also known as ‘heirloom seeds’, they are THE choice of organic growers and their produce is highly prized by gourmet chefs. I do not know much about the company which sponsors Beck’ s show, but I am familiar with another company, Seeds of Change. They’ve been in business for decades and have an excellent product line. While many other companies offer package deals like Beck’s sponsor, most also provides a large selection of seeds which you may buy individual packets of your favorite vegetables and herbs.
Organic gardening and heirloom seeds are a growth industry. Demand for such products has been steadily rising. Not just here, but globally. So if you are looking for a nice, little side business that doesn’t take much money or time to get started, it’s certainly worth looking into. With respect to Glenn Beck’s sponsor, it is true that it times get bad enough, ’survival seeds’ will be great for bartering. Any way you slice it, French cut or julienne, germinating seeds are a good investment to save or make money with! With spring upon us, it’s time to get planting! Just ask Michelle Obama. Yuk-Yuk!
March 15th, 2010 at 7:42 am
When we talk about the business of raising seeds I think it is a little more profitable if you are raising and selling cannabis seeds to the many legal grow rooms in the states that have approved the sale of cannabis for medical reasons.
March 15th, 2010 at 9:49 am
I think you’re missing the point. Heirloom seeds may be a great investment, but the joke is that Beck has been reduced to pushing something few have heard about because major advertisers (like Apple) have tired of his act.
March 15th, 2010 at 10:02 am
Gary is right; cannabis is literally worth more than its weight in gold. Beck should be plugging some feminized Green Crack or something.
March 15th, 2010 at 10:15 am
Chapter 1. O people of the earth, hear what the Lord says; You have become perverted
and your sins have found you out.
2. Your women sleep with women and your men sleep with men. Your people
have made marriage adulterous. You defy my laws. Your blood has become tainted with evil. You have no morals. You have broken my commandments. You have killed the unborn. The poor have been neglected and starved. Your priests, judges, and leaders have become corrupt. All of you worship idols of greed and pride. You do not pray nor read my Holy Words. You do not speak the truth. You trust has been put in evil, covetousness, envy, gossip, disobedience, slander, and unfaithfulness.
None of you are righteous, no, not one.
3. My wrath will pour out on you. I will bring an end to your revelry and music.
4. I, Michael, cried out to the Lord and said, I will pray for the people of the earth.
5. The Lord says, I will not hear your prayers. I will turn my head away from you. I will open heaven and rain down fire on you. I will split open the earth. I will cast your mountains into the sea. There will be not place to run or hide. The earth will weep.
6. And suddenly, I was allowed to see the remains of the earth, and all life had disappeared from the land and sea. The earth was filled with dry bones and scattered skeletons. The cities were rubble and only tombstone remained. The earth was dark, cold and full of ice. The earth trembled. The few people that remained were starving. They were eating their children. The plagues of Egypt were upon them. There was no water to drink. Smoke and ash covered the earth. I said, woe is me, only sorrow remains. God had unraveled His creation. The sun and moon had disappeared. The heavens were empty and void. I heard the dead souls cry out, “our Jackals told us what to do, our experts were liars. What must we do to be saved?”
7. I said to them you must seek God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. Repent, change your ways and maybe, just maybe, God will save you. Return to the Lord. You must pray, read the Holy Word, believe and change.
8. I, Michael, lifted up my head and looked to the heavens and saw the sun shinning. I thought are we so arrogant to believe the Lord would not destroy us? The prophets of old had warned us. How many times had God’s people been destroyed and brought into slavery? Wake up, before it’s too late.
Michael-Listen before it’s too late.
March 15th, 2010 at 11:39 am
Michael is right!
March 15th, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Heirloom seeds can be a great investment. You can’t eat gold; if someone is worried about self-sufficiency and wants to take care of themself (as Glenn Beck often talks about) then investing in seeds is worth it. More Plant and Garden information for those interested.
March 15th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
@Gary & Rhayader
While I would not advocate one doing anything illegal, such as passing a bill that implies health care is a Constitutional right in Congress instead of using the Amendment process for the states to decide, I tend to agree with you in regards to the value of such crops. Tobacco is another nice crop. Of course, if you really want to roll in dough, try raising high-end mushrooms and truffles. They can be as pricey as weed and are legal.
March 15th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
@Allan,
Maybe the real joke is that people who think products from Apple, etc, really make their lives better? What will you do with your I-Pad or I-Phone when rolling brown-outs, black-outs occur, as now in Venezuela, or the whole grid goes down? If the dollar and the government collapses, how much milk will a dairy farmer give you in exchange for your X-Box or laptop? Is spending a couple hundred bucks on seeds and a nice hand-cranked grain mill such a bad idea?
March 15th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
@Michael
Very nice! Amen, Brother!
March 15th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Beck crashed and burned in that Massa interview. You left that part out. Not one of his better moments. If he has any good moments.
Maybe you think that if we talk about seeds, that’ll get us to ignore it.
I liked this, other than for the Beck crap. There’s a seed bank store in the town where I live, but I’ve never stopped in to check it out. Isn’t there a seed bank somewhere, like, ten miles underground, or something, that the government maintains? I saw something on TV about it once. Some huge place, with zillions of seeds, of everything you can imagine. Like if we had a nuclear war, or an environmental collapse. Serious stuff, and it’s got nothing to do with Obama and the socialists.
Wouldn’t that be a great name for a band? Obama and the Socialists.
March 16th, 2010 at 6:12 am
@Klo
You Beck-Bashers make me laugh! How long have the Far-Left tried to derail Rush Limbaugh? 25 years? Where has that gotten you? He’s more popular now than ever before, even after his drug scandal, etc.
You failed to stop Rush. You failed to stop Fox News. Air America failed. The New York Times and Washington Post are failing. ABC-CBS-NBC-CNN-MSNBC are all failing.
So, go ahead and bash Beck all you want. He’s a rising star and on a roll. TV, radio, books (all best sellers, too I might add), and now he’s on Broadway! Next he’ll have his own cereal, Beck Flakes, with a double-fried cherry pie in each box! YUMMO!
March 16th, 2010 at 6:30 am
@Andy Z: What’s interesting to me is that marijuana seeds carry no drug content whatsoever — in most countries they are completely legal because of that. So, in Canada or the UK, there are all sorts of street shops selling seeds legally — it’s just cultivating those seeds that is against the law.
Of course, why let a little thing like actual drug content stop us? We’ve been doing perfectly well as the only industrialized nation in the world to ban hemp production. Why give farmers actual freedom when we can just subsidize their existence?
You Beck-Bashers make me laugh!
I sort of want to like Beck, but he’s just way too goofy and lacks any trace of intellectual seriousness. Rush is just a disaster from any point of view outside of his fan base.
March 16th, 2010 at 7:55 am
Beck-lovers everywhere! Buy Beck’s seeds1
Price $149.00
S/H
actual cost of seeds
March 16th, 2010 at 8:10 am
Michael, hopefully Jesus will come and pick you up ASAP!
Beck lovers rejoice!
Beck seeds for sale!
Price for bucket ‘o seeds $149.00End is near!
s/h 14.95
Total $163.95
Actual cost of seeds 20.00
cost of container 2.00
actual cost of s/h 5.00
Total actual cost 27.00
Net after cost 136.93
seed company’s share $25.00 damn double
Beck’s profit $111.93 dippers
Forget the math it’s the bs behind it that makes it so fascinating to watch people of average intelligence believe any of the stuff buck/Lush/milkin’ malkin/culter/insannity put up on their sites and you folks eat it up; hook, line, and sinker! Whoa, I think I caught a big one!
March 16th, 2010 at 9:46 am
Its amazing how this commercial during the airing of this one really weird dudes claims has brought a debate/conversation forward over cannabis seeds as opposed to these indestructable seeds that are supposed to grow in almost any conditions resulting from said upcoming genocidal elimination of most earthlings walking the planet.
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Mizdaice… I’m gonna agree with you on the deal with Michael.
Being a Christian myself guys like him scare the crap outta me.
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I suggest that we watch a little less Beck, seed commercials, whatever, and maybe just start paying attention to the crap thats unfolding around us.
You havent caught anything.
And if you do catch anything, I sure hope somewhere in “Obamacare” theres a clause/provision that will offer you the needed medical assistance
March 16th, 2010 at 9:50 am
Rhay.
yeah, Beck can get pretty goofy but when he deals in facts and goes into what our/the founding fathers intended I suggest we give him a little listen
Yeah, I know, he can get prety dramatic but he makes some excellent points
March 16th, 2010 at 9:54 am
Yeah, I know, he can get prety dramatic but he makes some excellent points
Yeah he’s actually got a strong libertarian streak, and has said before that he’s in favor of at least some sort of drug decriminalization. If you asked if I agree with his positions, I’d generally say yes.
But I just can’t watch the guy — of course I can’t watch TV news in general, so maybe that’s got something to do with it. I just wish he had a little more George Will in him, and a little less Wacky FM Morning Deejay.
March 16th, 2010 at 11:16 am
Rhay;
“of course I can’t watch TV news in general, so maybe that’s got something to do with it”
Well , yeah, watching TV news can be pretty scrambling to ones mind especially if you’re just looking fo some basic info as to the worlds events. But Beck is not really news as much as he is an entertainer.
I can picture you with the remote in your hand screaming at the set ” can I just get some fckn information and news without all the attitude included and sublime messaging going on”??
March 16th, 2010 at 11:22 am
i’ve got some seeds that’ll run you all about 20.00 a pop.
But the invstment, time, energy, hassle, and dirt will produce a profit margin that would yank this country out this depression/recession in less than the year or whatever BS timeline Obama is trying to get you to swallow
March 16th, 2010 at 11:30 am
But the invstment, time, energy, hassle, and dirt will produce a profit margin that would yank this country out this depression/recession in less than the year or whatever BS timeline Obama is trying to get you to swallow
Amen, brother. Think about legitimizing an industry like that — the economic effects would go far beyond whatever tax revenue was generated. It’s certainly been a reliable segment of the underground economy for years now, just ask the cartels.
Quite a bit of action down in your neck of the woods lately regarding ganja, with bills about dispensaries and such. I also heard something about a big bust on Big Island this week, including some people who had set up some sort of cannabis church.
I can picture you with the remote in your hand screaming at the set ” can I just get some fckn information and news without all the attitude included and sublime messaging going on”??
Haha, yeah I’ve pretty much abandoned the TV as a source of non-sports news. I’m typically either watching ESPN or a ballgame, or watching something on Netflix or whatever. I do very little channel-surfing.
March 16th, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Yeah Rhay. From one conservative to a liberal I have to say that theres some serious bucks to be made while at the same time being it made clear to the rest of the country just how much safer pot is compared to booze.
Just think about the investment behind a gallon of booze as opposed to what takes to put out a primo ounce of sht that goes alot further and puts society at so much more little risk ?