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Back when GMO soy was banned in Brazil, farmers simply banded together and paid smugglers to bring seeds from neighboring Argentina. If the benefits were not so immediate I doubt they'd bother to break the law.


Right now there are people going to lots of trouble to smuggle rhino horns for use as an aphrodisiac. If the benefits were not so immediate I doubt they'd bother to break the law.


A wrong analogy is still a wrong analogy.




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