http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/global-food-crops-also-face-earth-s-sixth-great-mass-extinction

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Human civilization utterly depends on our precious food supplies, but the planet’s sixth mass extinctionof plants and animals currently underway is also threatening the world’s food crops, according to a new report from Bioversity International.

“Huge proportions of the plant and animal species that form the foundation of our food supply are just as endangered [as wildlife] and are getting almost no attention,” Ann Tutwiler, director general of Bioversity International, wrote in an article for the Guardian.

“If there is one thing we cannot allow to become extinct, it is the species that provide the food that sustains each and every one of the seven billion people on our planet,” she said.

According to the report, 940 cultivated species are already threatened. Tutwiler emphasized the impact on…