Undated blog posts are a menace. The second item you cite (which is what the first one cites) is a petition in support of the Tester-Hagen amendment to the bill -- to protect small/organic farmer -- which has passed. I wish these blogs were as successful in promulgating the updated facts.

I agree that Monsanto's seed patenting and control processes are evil, but I also have trouble with the paranoid, "all government is evil", anti-regulatory forces, who are quite audible here.

Here are Michael Pollan's comments from Nov. 18: click.

It would not hurt continue to voice your support for this part of the bill but be sure the whole thing is not tossed out with the bathwater.

~ Becky in Tucson