Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["elderberryjam" <elderberryjam@zippytech.com>]

A long and interesting read, if you'd like to know some of the players in 
the GM food argument, how they are promoting their argument to politicians, 
and how they talk about the opposition (most notably the EU):

http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/science/hsy87547.000/hsy87547_0.HTM

This link is to "Plant Biotechnology Research and Development in Africa: 
Challanges and Opportunities hearing before the Subcommittee on Research, 
Committee on Science, House of Representatives 108th Congress, first 
session, June 12, 2003."

I read a New York Times article on the new patent bill passed in the House 
of Representatives, and I got curious. The bill is supposed to limit 
lawsuits on patents, and increase the difficulty in getting new patents. 
Microsoft was for the bill; a major argument was made against it by Dana 
Rohrabacher, California.

So I Googled "Rohrabacher Monsanto," and this was within the 3rd hit. The 
only thing I've found so far is simply that he is on the Committee on 
Science. I'd like to hear his argument against the bill, and I'd like to 
know the pharmaceutical stand on the patent bill; who is sponsoring it and 
why.

Gwen