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If it weren't for the neighbors having the patented seeds I imagine they'd also have no legs to stand on?
by 8note 6y ago
If it weren't for the neighbors having the patented seeds I imagine they'd also have no legs to stand on?
- pfdietz 6y agoYou mean, Monsanto? No. Monsanto's patents were valid regardless of how the farmer got those seeds. The action of willfully concentrating the resistance genes is what got him in trouble.
- dheera 6y agoSounds like a pretty ridiculous system. Plants are living beings, and never needed humans in the first place to thrive on the planet. Wind and birds just do their thing. The courts can sue the birds and the weather gods if they want to.
- pfdietz 6y agoYou seem to be objecting not just to plant patents, but to agriculture itself. One of the first changes made to grain plants back in the neolithic was selection for plants that did not shed their seeds, so they could be harvested. These plants became dependent on humans to thrive.