> I love the science. It's the non-competitive market I don't like. "Get your seeds from us under any terms we dictate" isn't a healthy state, or in the public

> I love the science. It's the non-competitive market I don't like. "Get your seeds from us under any terms we dictate" isn't a healthy state, or in the public interest. But that is not an accurate reflection of reality. Any farmer is free to buy any seed from any company at any time. They can even visit the seed banks and grow ancient varieties if there would be someone to sell the resultant food to. The whole "you must buy our seed" thing is just the another mimetic anti-GMO trope. > And thanks to a number of factors beginning with patent arsenals and ending with good luck with that, your chances of leaving Monsanto to start a viable competitor are somewhere a few orders of magnitude below "disrupt Facebook. And yet Monsanto are not the biggest seed company by a long way. That accolade goes to Dow.