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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT dtnspeed.net>]

<<As part of sweeping "economic restructuring" implemented by the Bush 
Administration in Iraq, Iraqi farmers will no longer be permitted to save 
their seeds. Instead, they will be forced to buy seeds from US 
corporations -- including seeds the Iraqis themselves developed over 
hundreds of years.>>


I've heard about a law that keeps Iraqis from using patented seeds, but not
one that keeps them from using indigenous seeds. I don't see how US
companies could patent indigenous seeds.... but then I don't see a lot of
stuff.

Marie