Jalopy
Well-known member
I feel that a lot of people now with 20-20 hindsight knew that the housing financial boom /bust was going to happen. We all questioned the sanity of mortgages at 90-102% negative equity and ARM's that would definitely go up rather than down from 6%. But we did not get vocal about it or try to change the way things were headed as everyone said "well its a new era" "things are different these days" or "i'm not doing that let everyone fend for themselves". Well now we see what happened.
So my real question is why are we letting seed and livestock genetics be patented and controlled by a few companies? Once they are protected by patents then we are subject to the whims of boards of directors of the companies and if they make errors in judgement along the lines of the boards of the financial anf insurance and equity companies the results can be devastating to the world's food supply not just money supply. I could really get into a long rant so I better stop now to save my train of thought. I do not believe this is a political issue as it has happened over a number of years with both parties in Congress and the Whitehouse it is more of a social issue. So if you discuss this try to keep it social.
So my real question is why are we letting seed and livestock genetics be patented and controlled by a few companies? Once they are protected by patents then we are subject to the whims of boards of directors of the companies and if they make errors in judgement along the lines of the boards of the financial anf insurance and equity companies the results can be devastating to the world's food supply not just money supply. I could really get into a long rant so I better stop now to save my train of thought. I do not believe this is a political issue as it has happened over a number of years with both parties in Congress and the Whitehouse it is more of a social issue. So if you discuss this try to keep it social.