hazey grapes, you hit the nail on the head man. Thats EXACTLY what I mean....
It's like I told someone a long time ago that used to short me a 1/4 to an 1/8th on every zip... I don't care if you charge me 800 bucks a zip, as long as it gets me high, and weighs a a full zip when I get it. They never shorted me after that, and always charged me what I considered reasonable.
I have a complete understanding of what it takes to be a breeder, I've done it myself. I also understand the expense and risk that goes into it. I have absolutely no qualms about folks who develop a seed and charge people what the market will bear for their particular strain.
However that's where it should end. Outside of possibly copyrighting the name, I don't think that the DNA of ANY LIVING THING, should be legally patentable. EVER.
It is interesting to note that our forefathers, some of whom developed their own fruits and vegetables through selective breeding, knowing the patent laws(since they wrote them) did not then turn around and patent their own developments in selectively breed fruits and veggies.
Understand what I am saying?
If patent laws were meant to cover these things, they would have patented them all those years ago. Our forefathers were not ignorant.
I won't join Occupy, because in the end I am a capitalist at heart who has anti-corporate tendencies. I don't believe that the Occupy crowd can be successful when you have rich hollywood elitists in the crowd whining about how evil and greedy America is. When you have the likes of the hypocrite Michael Moore in the crowd? You've pretty much lost me.
Also.... many of our grandparents have their life savings on Wall St., I do dislike corporate greed and the people involved should be prosecuted when it becomes illegally corrupted, and should not be allowed to hide behind the corporation when it comes to paying the piper when a corporation commits a crime.
I don't want to hurt senior citizens who have paid all their lives into a system, and sacrificed so much through out their lives (from the depression to WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf Wars, I mean think about it), while politicians in Washington get away with murder. SCOTT FREE.....
Bill Clinton for example raised taxes to their highest levels in history on social security recipients while he was president, this couldn't have happened without republicans...
Lets face facts here, each party pushes their own anti-American, anti-Constitutional agenda further down the road each time they get elected to higher offices. Each has their own sets of rights busting mandates to slowly saw away at certain sets of rights..... and then the other party comes in, and they saw away at another set.....
Anyway, government is the problem, they set the tax rates, they set the rules.. Wall St plays by them, and when they don't they SHOULD be prosecuted. When they aren't it is because the government allows it and WE the people give the Government authority.