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The farmers were not trying to grow the patented seeds. They shouldn't be liable for their neighbor's trash blowing on their fields. The use of Roundup is anot
by quantified 4y ago
The farmers were not trying to grow the patented seeds. They shouldn't be liable for their neighbor's trash blowing on their fields.
The use of Roundup is another travesty.
- edmundsauto 4y agoThe farmer may have claimed they weren't trying to. The fact they used Roundup, which would have killed their crop if it weren't the GM seeds, indicates otherwise.
- quantified 4y agoSome other farmer's trash blows into my field, it's mine.
- pfdietz 4y agoAnd if you then spray Roundup on that trash to concentrate the patented trait, you've deliberately violated the patent.
- UncleEntity 4y agoJust like selling a used book violates the copyright?
- pfdietz 4y agoNo, obviously not like that at all. In particular, growing plants is copying them. Also, patents are not copyrights.
- quantified 4y agoI entered no contract with the patent holder. I get what you're saying from that perspective. It's just BS.
- pfdietz 4y agoYou don't get out of obeying the law just because you didn't sign anything. Nor is really really wanting to a justification for violating the law. Patented seeds are not something you would have come up with yourself. This is pure envy creating a sense of entitlement.