Monsanto and others

http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/03/10/bills-could-reorganizing-farming-and-criminalize-gardening-organic-farming/

Thanks to Michelle at Crows Feet for the heads up. If you live in the U.S.A, or North America for that matter, you might wish to query on bills HR874 and S425 (query HR874 S425 in google and you'll find some interesting reading).

It's an all to alarming trend these days. Very big business influence governments to pass laws and policy to effectively eliminate their competition and to pretty much let these companies do what they want. Build a product in a part of the world where environmental controls and peoples rights do not matter. Sell it in places in the world where it would cost more to do it the proper way. Consume and destroy at will, all to post a healthy bottom line for the super rich. (but we buy the stuff, don't we...) Governments, instead of setting policy good for the people of the country, end up instead being "police" for the big corporations. I put police in quotes as I was actually being polite. I was going to write henchmen, or the goons. I think I should have. It's more accurate. A million laws later and where do you end up. You end up with the transformation of a free nation to a police state. Think about it. Freedom of speech is already disappearing. Think of all the things you can't say. Maybe freedom of gardening will go next.

Why do we let business run countries? Countries are for people. Let's get and keep business out of it.