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Then they should engineer it to be seedless too so they don't have this problem. I really can't believe we're living in a society where a corporation can succe
by bsimpson 14y ago
Then they should engineer it to be seedless too so they don't have this problem. I really can't believe we're living in a society where a corporation can successfully use the courts to make natural reproduction illegal.
- mbreese 14y agoThey didn't make reproduction illegal. They confirmed that Monsanto's patent lets them restrict how you can use the products of reproduction (beans/seed). These beans wouldn't naturally exist if it weren't for Monsanto. It would be extremely difficult to produce a soy bean that didn't produce seeds... since that's the bean part. This is very different from the Myriad BRCA1 patent where they patented a naturally occurring mutation in humans. In Monsanto's case, they actually produced something that was novel - an herbicide resistant soy bean.
- indiefan 14y agoWhat scares me is that you know they're working on doing precisely this, and eventually they will probably be successful.