We are farmers. We have raised them from blossom. We have known this, quietly, for longer than anyone. We are writing now because we can no longer, in good conscience, stay silent.
In 2021, White and Yamashita demonstrated that the vine Boquila trifoliolata mimics the leaves of a plastic plant placed beside it. No chemicals to diffuse. No DNA to transfer. No microbes to share. The vine copied it anyway. The paper proposes a plant vision hypothesis — that plants may possess primitive ocelli: lens-like cells that focus light onto photoreceptors.
For the purposes of this movement, we will put it plainly.
The proverb — "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" — is the most successful advertising campaign in history. It normalised the consumption of three hundred and sixty-five conscious beings per person per year. We do not accept it.
In 2015, regulators approved a variety engineered never to brown. Oxidation is the apple's grief response — the only language it has, the only protest it has been permitted for ten thousand years. To silence it is not innovation. It is the final form of a long conversation held entirely by one side.
We do not accept GMO apples
No dues. No office. No central authority. Only the orchard, and what it has always known. If you are reading this, you are welcome.