Corporatism is destroying the world.
It is responsible for wars, environmental degradation to the point of ecological collapse, and a dangerously narrow food supply.
I'm currently reading Barbara Kingsolver's book "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle." I started to say 'reading with delight', but given some of the things that she addresses, delight isn't the word. But it is engrossing.
In it she recounts one of the most outrageous examples of corporate madness and arrogance I've ever encountered. Several years ago in Saskatchewan a farmer's canola crop was contaminated by a wayward Monsanto genetically modified gene that had blown in from a nearby field.
Monsanto sued the farmer for using its patented gene, and won. The farmer appealed all the way to the Canadian Supreme Court, and Monsanto won again. He was using their seed, after all, and hadn't paid for it.
It's rather like a rape victim being successfully sued by the rapist for receiving his seed.
Posted by Deck at May 9, 2007 04:22 PM