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Politics : Actual left/right wing discussion
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (729)9/13/2006 1:02:41 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 10087
 
As part of sweeping "economic restructuring" implemented by the Bush Administration in Iraq, Iraqi farmers will no longer be permitted to save their seeds. Instead, they will be forced to buy seeds from US corporations

Nonsense.

They might have to abide by restrictions on proprietary seeds, but they aren't forced to buy those specific seeds. It might be that other seeds aren't really competitive, but that fact has nothing to do with Bush administration policy or Iraqi law. And getting back to the point of the post you replied to, that lack of competitiveness hardly makes it wrong for Monsanto to oppose restrictions and/or bans of its products.

You can make an argument against intellectual property in general, or the way it is applied to seeds. You might even get me to support that argument, but it hardly means that Monsanto's products should be banned, let alone that its wrong for them to oppose such a ban.
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