"David in Normandy" wrote in message
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On 17/11/2013 09:44, Road_Hog wrote:
On Saturday, November 16, 2013 2:23:11 PM UTC, David in Normandy wrote:

Reading your post, it seems the new law is a very bad thing for

gardeners. Presumably the law is intended to be a benefit for somebody

but who supposed to benefit from this draconian legislation?



Large corporations.

The EU and all other large legislative bodies are in the pay of
corporations (plutocracy) and eveything is done for their benefit. But it
will always be advertised as being for our benefit, in this case, they'll
probably say it is for health benefit and keeping us from accidently
eating bad plants.


It does seem like one of those ridiculous laws that will benefit almost
nobody. Thinking about it, I can't even see the large corporations gaining
from this as it will mean they will have to abandon seeds / plants with
low sales volumes and restrict their sales to large volume sales e.g.
those to farmers. Can't see how anybody will benefit to be honest, except
the bureaucrats and labs that will do the testing. It sounds like the sort
of insane bureaucracy that only French politicians could dream up - laws
for the sake of laws to make more artificial jobs for bureaucrats.

Well I will continue saving seeds from one year to the next and continue
to swap seeds and cuttings with friends and neighbours. I can see this
hurting small nurseries, garden centres and small seed and plant producers
but gardeners will continue sourcing seeds and plants from each other as
always. Though I guess organised seed swaps (at meet-ups or online) may
become illegal?

Gardeners will be hanging around street corners wearing dark glasses and
raincoats stopping passers-by "Psst! Do you want some illegal runner bean
seeds."

lol ... what a prospect!!!

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