Wendell Berry once said that agriculture is the "way we enact our dependence on the land."

Monsanto et. al. are the visible symptom of a psychological malady and spiritual poverty. Greed over the sacred bond between ourselves and the life that sustains us.

Both their GMO products and their attempts to enclose and sequester the genetic commons are part and parcel of their underlying epistemological problems.

> "You can't own land, man."

> I can because I'm not a penniless dirty hippie."