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Kristina Hubbard
Daily Yonder, 24 August 2011
http://www.dailyyonder.com/speak-your-piece-president-and-seed/2011/08/23/3490*"The crops that we grow are the basis of our civilization," Todd Leake said. "If anything belongs in the public domain it is the crops we grow for food."
[image caption: President Barack Obama's administration has been investigating monopoly concentration in the seed business for over two years. But when the President spoke on the steps of the Seed Savers Exchange, an independent seed company, he didn't mention that inquiry once. Nor did he talk about business concentration in other areas of agriculture, despite hearings held by his Department of Justice all over rural America.]
Last week President Obama held a town hall meeting on the grounds of Iowa's Seed Savers Exchange, an organization dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds.