Read Joel Salatin - of Polyface Farms, in Swoope, Virginia. He ain't no lefty, but, he isn't some RINO. He pulls no punches with both political parties, when they infringe on food freedom.
When the ATF and state Ag departments start doing SWAT-like violent raids on peaceful farms based on spurious alleged infringements or even entrapment, even the Inside-the-Beltway libs get riled -- because their clean, healthy food supply is endangered. (Look up the Ohio family, and the Pennsylvania farmer who were raided -- eerily Soviet-like). Libs up in Montgomery County, MD, were holding legal fund fundraisers for the PA farmer -- they knew it was over-the-line and tyrannical, and cut them off from supplies of reliable, quality food. These weren't conservatives putting their money where their mouths were, for this farmer, but libs!
This is serious stuff. Now, I can't say I forgive these jerks for putting Obama in power, but they at least understand the importance of food.
Lefties and righties or whatever CAN agree that freedom is a good thing -- the food issue hits close to home. You can live without the cheap Chinese goods, and even without European cars, but you can't live without food, when I last checked.
Take a look down your grocery store aisle. Look at the ingredients. Tell me how much of it is healthy, reasonable and fit for consumption.
Yes, I've done some homework, and I've watched the "lefty" documentaries on food, water, corporations, walmart, etc. No, I don't buy everything folks are selling (e.g., Greenpeace, PETA, etc.), and I see their biases, but pay attention to what's going on, whether deliberate or accidental, and see how much "food freedom" you have, and how quickly it can be taken away.
I would encourage you to do some homework!
Aren't big paintbrushes exciting? "Banning GM seeds," "Evil Corporations." Black versus white, up versus down, who's side are you on, anyway? What fun.
Back in the real conservative world, however, behavior counts. And when people use a corporation to do evil, it becomes... an evil corporation. Like one that legally forces hybrid seed use, and legally attacks heirloom seed re-use (you ARE aware that GM hybrid seeds CAN'T be "re-used," because they are HYBRID? Then WHY did you try to get away with saying "farmers don't reuse the seeds anyway"? Talk about dishonesty!).
And when genetic modification (a concept as vast as the number of potential genome mixtures themselves) are used in species crossings found worrisome by significant percentages of scientists in relevant fields, are then legalized without even validating test protocols (let alone actually testing them as would be required for the creation of a drug, which GM seed patents try to emulate) then "GM seeds," under such conditions, SHOULD be banned until they are shown to be harmless. Just like patented drugs.
After all, the GM argument is nothing less than that billions of people should be banned from having any legal remedy against having to eat the stuff, and be REQUIRED to feed their families and children with it. Here in America, we call that an "important issue."
These are well established issues in this country, Aussiebabe. Maybe Australia should treat them with just a little bit more sophistication then the half-witted baiting and mocking that you are displaying on behalf of your country.
Unless, of course, that's exactly what you intended to do all along.