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Th first article about India not allowing the seed until after people started buying them on the grey market, after Monsanto withdrew an application over a roya
by ch4s3 5y ago
Th first article about India not allowing the seed until after people started buying them on the grey market, after Monsanto withdrew an application over a royalty dispute with the Indian government. Monsanto didn't sue any farmer there.
The second article is about farmers intentionally planting the potatoes and refusing to stop as part of a settlement deal that offered them either purchasing contracts or asked them to simply stop.
Neither of these is an example of an agro-tech company suing farmers for accidentally growing patented seeds. Did you read the articles?
- guerrilla 5y ago> accidentally growing patented seeds First, that's moving the goalpost. Second, "who would have guessed a multinational corporation would win in court against peasants the world over..." You're just repeating their side of the story.
- ch4s3 5y agoThe whole thing was about who they were actually suing. My original claim was that it’s a myth that they sue people for accidentally planting the seeds. If people choose to illegally buy and plant the patented seeds, then they should expect legal trouble. I’m not actually a fan of these gene patents, but I don’t have a lot of sympathy for people trying to use them on the cheap then pretending to take an anti GMO stance when they get caught.