Licensing restrictions are 100% optional: Nobody is forcing anyone else to plant, say, roundup ready soybeans. It just happens that the seeds that require licen

Licensing restrictions are 100% optional: Nobody is forcing anyone else to plant, say, roundup ready soybeans. It just happens that the seeds that require licensing are that much better than the alternative, an overwhelming majority of farmers plant GMO soybeans. If, say, going organic is more profitable, farmers plant organic crops instead. Farming is a low margin business, nobody is putting a gun to their head one way or the other. If licenses were draconian and not worth it, the farmers would not buy that seed. It's not as if there are compatibility problems if they don't plant what everyone else does! I would have a big problem with licensing myself if the patents lasted 80 years, but, in practice, by the time a patent goes offline, people were buying better anyway. And if at some point agricultural process slows down enough, then we all get the benefit anyway.