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Do you know the history of the "allowed seeds" law? I assume greed is in there somewhere, but there's usually some other bizarre or novel justification for tha
by saalweachter 7y ago
Do you know the history of the "allowed seeds" law? I assume greed is in there somewhere, but there's usually some other bizarre or novel justification for that sort of law.
- joshvm 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Union_for_the_Protection_of_New_Varieties_of_Plants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Union_for_the_Pr... https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2013/sep/26/eu-regulation-garden-plants https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2013... https://ec.europa.eu/food/plant/plant_propagation_material/plant_variety_catalogues_databases_en https://ec.europa.eu/food/plant/plant_propagation_material/p... Some of the justification I can see is environmental/economical. As per my sibling post - it's there to make sure that a rogue seller doesn't accidentally or intentionally cripple national food production by introducing a crop that is prone to disease and infects/crosses with everything. However there is also "breeder's right" which is more debatable. I'm not sure what actually happened (IANAL), the original proposal came under a lot of fire from retailers and gardeners: http://www.realseeds.co.uk/seedlaw2.html http://www.realseeds.co.uk/seedlaw2.html