"ImStillMags" > wrote in message
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> WASHINGTON (AP) - Wenk's Yellow Hots, Pico de Gallos and the
> unpredictably hot San Juan "Tsiles" chili peppers have safely arrived
> at a "doomsday" vault in the Arctic.
>
> Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., says he and other congressmen delivered seeds
> from the pepper varieties on Sunday to a Norwegian seed bank on the
> remote Svalbard archipelago.
>
> Operators say the Svalbard Global Seed Vault has the world's most
> diverse repository of crop seeds and is a safeguard against war or
> natural disasters that could wipe out food crops.
>
> The seeds came from a Department of Agriculture collection in
> Colorado. In addition to peppers, seeds for plants including peanuts
> and melons were sent to the vault.
>
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> To me, this is one of the most important things civilized man has
> done........preserve the seeds of Earths' bounty.

They better have some barley and yeast cultures in there.

Tom
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