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Thanks for your perspective! Although I was referring to something a bit different — the state limiting the rights of people to grow and sell their own food, ex

Thanks for your perspective! Although I was referring to something a bit different — the state limiting the rights of people to grow and sell their own food, except for certain limited varieties. You may be "selling ornamental plants" today, but surely, only as long as the government looks the other way. You could be "criminals" tomorrow if the authorities changed their minds. I can think of few more fundamental rights than the ability to grow food to feed yourself and your community. Other governments round the world, and through history, have taken this to logical extremes. I'm don't want to turn this into a slippery-slope argument, but there are some slopes you just shouldn't step on.

sdoering 6y ago
> You could be "criminals" tomorrow if the authorities changed their minds. This is true. > I can think of few more fundamental rights than the ability to grow food to feed yourself and your community. Absolutely. And the moment most/all varieties are registered for corporations you do not even need additional laws. You could use currently existing laws to hinder people in growing their own food/food for the local community. I feel, that in Europe at least on the level of the European Court of Law we have some guardian of basic fundamental rights. But as a worst case one would have to fight through all levels to have this decided.