Anyone heard about this corporation?
They own some patent on a gene in their seeds that was engineered to crossbreed very easily.
Then they test other farmers crops for their genes and if they have them they demand a cut.
It's like a food mafia....
Anyone heard about this corporation?
They own some patent on a gene in their seeds that was engineered to crossbreed very easily.
Then they test other farmers crops for their genes and if they have them they demand a cut.
It's like a food mafia....
They've been pulling this for years. They plant a small crop of their patented plant and just wait for the seeds to blow over the fence, then sue the pants off of the real farmers who just happened to be downwind.
It's a disgrace if you ask me.
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Originally Posted by Dirus
They started this with corn, and have moved on to soybeans and other large crops. They patented genetic information (a whole other debate) that is in their corn seed, and they "lease" you seeds to grow crops. The farmer never technically owns the seed because it contains patented intellectual property. Farmers can't even save leftover seeds to use the next year, it all has to be returned to Monsanto or destroyed, and more seed bought the next growing season. It is a huge corporate scam of farmers and the american people (and other countries, but it's an american corporation).
Unfortunately no individual farmer has the financial resources to actually fight them in court, and most that try to fight end up setting after they run themselves up a debt of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Watch Food Inc. if you want to learn more about the food industry.
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It seems like the best thing to do would to be revoke all patents on genetic information. It's pretty easy to see how exploitative this is, the fact that it's allowed astounds me. I know it probably shouldn't though considering all the other corruption in the world.
At least I have weed and UO.
I believe they did something like this with sugar cane where I'm from. From what I heard they created a crop that should never get any kind of fungus and stuff. Not sure if they doing the whole sueing thing
a guy i know, his family owns or operates cargil, they are seed mafia. big money, big ****ing money.
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