Cheap as Free

Just a quickie today, flower children.
I find that grocery stores are excellent suppliers of free seeds. I poke around under the produce displays and find funky, forgotten fruits amidst dust bunnies and nutshells. I sweep them up real quick and pocket them without even a moral pinch, since common practice (reads: germophobic superstition) holds that contact with the floor makes them unfit for human consumption. If you can't get a fruit you'd like for absolutely free, one bought will often contain as many seeds as a packet from a display and will be a fresher source. Plus, the unit pricing can't be beaten. One tomato can contain dozens and dozens of seeds and can be had for a pittance. A packet of seeds can cost more than two dollars and may not even be of the same cultivar as the kinds you look for at market. I can't guarantee that hybrids or tropical species will breed true but I don't think anybody ever died trying to grow lychees on their kitchen table. I've even had success planting from culinary collections (celery, specifically). My grandmother looked at me mighty strangely when I first asked if I could raid her spice cabinet for seeds to plant. Well, I certainly showed her. I SHOWED ALL OF THEM!
Have you ever tried to buy cherimoya seeds, commercially? I've had no luck finding prepackaged options. But six years ago, I bought a fruit, ate it (not unpleasant), and dried the seeds on a windowsill. I planted the little bastards when I first found a pot and wet soil. I've got a small tree growing in my living room, now. It probably won't ever fruit but it looks nice and it's a trophy of resourcefulness.
The other day, the wife and I ordered lunch at an Eighties-themed restaurant near my residence. Her entree came with a side of boysenberries and lettuce leaves. Friggin' boysenberries! Guess what new, delicious, free fruit came home with me, swaddled in a napkin like a lumpy, purple Baby Jesus? I mashed it up and dried the seeds. Maybe the Spring will yield sweet treasure.
My point is, if you need seeds, don't get impatient and waste your precious consumer power on packets of over-dried, chemical-drenched, re-re-re-packaged envelopes of genetic dead-ends and crud-motes. That money just goes toward legitimizing an entrenched agribusiness which exterminates diversity and ecology where and whenever it fails to meet quota. I'm pretty sure that is evil, in some definition and that's not where I'm at. You, either, most likely.