Amishland at it again!

[PaulF]

In most businesses if the seller had a product from a manufacturer, say a rototiller, advertised the rototiller as a rare and special piece of machinery after taking the original nameplate off and replacing it with a different one (say Brand X) would be committing not only a breach of ethics, but also a crime. The buyers of that rototiller thinking the new brand was pretty darn good would tell all their friends about this new product. If no one really paid attention, Brand X with some fancy marketing, may become a good seller with people saying it does as well as the tiller it really was. Tomato seeds are not rototillers and laws concerning the sale of seeds don't apply as they do for patented machinery, but I am sure you get the idea.

Do I really care about the history of a tomato as much as I care about the taste? I don't think so, but I would rather do the right thing by purchasing seeds for that tomato from a retailer who is ethical and follows the rules of respectability and fairness. Renaming the real thing brand X just to make a few dollars would make that tomato not taste as good as it should if it had the true name. A rose by any other name would just be a stinky flower.