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Re:How the global banana industry is killing the world’s fav... by pizza234 on Thursday September 11, 2014 @08:07AM (#8302076)
Most likely, he refers to the 2004 seed act:

http://www.eldis.org/go/home&id=18407&type=Document

which has been used against at least one seed bank.

At a quick glance, it indeed lends itself very well to corporatocratic usages.

Having said that though, it's quite unsettling how there is much blogging about "monsanto lobbying against seed banks", without absolutely any reference which is not word of mouth.

Re:How the global banana industry is killing the world’s fav... by bsdshepherd on Thursday September 11, 2014 @12:05PM (#8303366)
Would the Wall Street Journal be sufficient?

http://online.wsj.com/articles/gardeners-on-alert-as-pennsyl...

As for word of mouth, until John Deere adds a repeater onto their tractors it's what we have to work with. I'd use my Chromebook, but Google's networking layer in Javascript continues to remain broken.

Re:How the global banana industry is killing the world’s fav... by dubfan on Thursday September 11, 2014 @12:00PM (#8303330)
"Author: V. Shiva"

The link to the full paper isn't working but if that is who I think it is (Vandana Shiva) I'd take that paper with a massive grain of gluten-free sea salt. She's the one responsible for the Indian farmer suicide myth, as well as a bunch of other complete nonsense.

Re:How the global banana industry is killing the world’s fav... by jrkelly on Thursday September 11, 2014 @12:42PM (#8303600)
The New Yorker finally stepped up to the plate on calling out her myths recently: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/08/25/seeds-of-doubt
Re:How the global banana industry is killing the world’s fav... by bsdshepherd on Thursday September 11, 2014 @12:11PM (#8303412)
> farmer suicide myth

We call it "taking the pipe". I'll be joining others in the complete nonsense in less than two years.

Re:How the global banana industry is killing the world’s fav... by mcv on Thursday September 11, 2014 @11:20AM (#8303043)
Well, it's not like Monsanto is going to publish press releases about their lobbying efforts.
Re:How the global banana industry is killing the world’s fav... by bsdshepherd on Thursday September 11, 2014 @11:57AM (#8303304)
They don't have to.

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00000005...

The privatization of water and food as population control and hostile takeover of land is very real.

Re:How the global banana industry is killing the world’s fav... by dubfan on Thursday September 11, 2014 @12:06PM (#8303381)
Yes, Monsanto lobbies, just like every other relatively large company in this country.

> The privatization of water and food as population control and hostile takeover of land is very real.

I'm sorry, but this sounds like tin foil hat nonsense. Care to substantiate that?