It’s not about patent infringment. It’s about attempting to gain a monopoly of seed production and sales by devious political maneuvering in order to prevent competition from heirloom variety seeds.
Destroy the competition to enhance the corporate bottom line, or to gain political power through control of food production. That’s the agricorporate mindset.
Present day international corporations, and the familiar agricorporations are international, have no conscience, no sense of moral or civic responsibility and no allegiance to any country. It’s all about greed.
Americans need to wake up and protect their food supply.
>>>Why is it so harmful to protect seed patent” and let others just take it for free.
As I understand it, think of this scenario (played out in Monsanto lawsuits):
Farmer plants some crop, say corn. Farmer next door plants Monsanto GM corn. Next year, Monsanto field auditor comes by and finds (illegally entering your property) that some of your corn carries their patented genetic markers. Monsanto sues you. You are then forced to buy their corn or else pay up big fines.
That’s what I understand is the issue.
No ones stealing their patents, the nature of the probem causes them to be shared. It’s up the victimized farmers to police their fields.
If true, and I think this was exactly the case in a lawsuit in Canada (might have been with wheat), then Monsanto must lose the ability to patent genetics that can’t be controlled.
God should be sued for creating the wind that carried the markers. I don’t think he’s shown up yet in any court case.
Didn’t you read about the heirloom varieties? They’re trying to control those as well.
Faremrs are definitely thinking money. The last thing they want to do is to have to share their crop to a Genetic seed company because that seed company cross pollinated their crop with the neighbors crop that just didn’t happen to be that seed strain.
So the seed company claims the farmer is stealing their patent that they own the rights to exclusively.
And they use that as an excuse to steal crops that aren’t theirs from people who don’t buy their seed.
There should be no rights to cross pollination because it is a natural process. The seed companies claim otherwise.
In Missouri, Budweiser sued some farmers because their hops might have been cross pollinated by other varieties.