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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> a handful of corporations whose goal is global domination of food.
> 

Goal, do we think?   A done deal by this time.  Even now a very few 
corporations already dominate world food.  

A sidebar news story of a few days ago told how a survey among teens and 
young adults to identify the main ingredient in French fries yielded 20% 
correct 
answers with a larger percent of the querents not actually sure what a potato 
looked like.  The western diet is so far removed from the source of real food 
that the corporations needn't rely on plant patents, who would know what to 
do 
with corn and soybeans even if they had them?  This situation is very fast 
being exported to the rest of the world.

Here in this isolated mountain hollow the OP corn I've grown from saved seed 
for many years now is relatively safe.  The distance and mountain ridges 
thwart any stray pollen from invading and I set back a reserve of seed each 
year on 
a rotating basis in case I ever need to chuck the current year's seed.  But 
places like this are the most insignificant drop in the endless sea of 
acreage 
needed to feed the world.

Biotech foods, alas, already have domination.  The prospects for otherwise 
seem grim.