It’s not about patent infringment. It’s about attempting to gain a monopoly of seed production and sales by devious political maneuvering in order to prevent competition from heirloom variety seeds.
Destroy the competition to enhance the corporate bottom line, or to gain political power through control of food production. That’s the agricorporate mindset.
Present day international corporations, and the familiar agricorporations are international, have no conscience, no sense of moral or civic responsibility and no allegiance to any country. It’s all about greed.
Americans need to wake up and protect their food supply.
They fake compassion -- look at The One, that's his schtick, which so many fools are buying (at least 56% at latest polls).
Michael Pollan's Omivore's Dilemma; The End of Food (forget the author's name); Joel Salatin's Everything I want to do is illegal (he's GREAT!)...these are all along the same theme, from both political spectra -- food is a neccessity, and can be used as a weapon of control.
We've been so spoiled when it comes to food in America. We were the world's breadbasket. Now we're becoming the world's high fructose corn sweetener supplier.
Not to be pessimistic, but I call Obamanation the Mugabe of America for a reason -- Zimbabwe used to be the breadbasket of Africa....now it's an inflation-ridden hollow shell of a country. I recall reading about the "veterans" who were used by Mugabe to terrorize the White farmers (to include the Black Africans who worked for them on the farms - they didn't escape the rapes and the terror) -- the veterans/thugs were "given" the farms, and realized, "oh, this is harder than it looks." DUH. Now look at Zimbabwe.
Yet, over half our country voted for Mugabe junior. Great.