Agribusiness doesn't really care if some hippies are trading heirloom rutabaga seeds. This doesn't cost the companies anything, and they likely can't extort (ev

Agribusiness doesn't really care if some hippies are trading heirloom rutabaga seeds. This doesn't cost the companies anything, and they likely can't extort (even with the help of regulations) any significant money from the hippies. This is "bureaucracy gone wild". It was bad before, but now we'd been having these chumps brainstorm Hollywood thriller movie plots for 10 years on how Osama bin Laden might destroy Hawaii's pineapple industry by importing hummingbirds... And so of course they're paranoid of little old ladies trading tomato seeds at a public library. Nevermind that the amount of seeds transferred/grown in this fashion can only be the tiniest fraction of the seeds blowing around in the wind and germinating naturally... by god their going to save us in true movie action hero fashion. By disallowing seed trading among hobbyist gardeners.