Don’t you think having large corporations corner the seed market and engineer non-viable seeds might be a little on the stupid side?
Our food supply chain is already so fragile, if we had some major anything happen, this type of thinking would seem to compound the issue.
Large corporations or anyone else will fail miserably to the point of bankruptcy by investing in any attempt to corner the seed market by engineering non-viable seeds. They would by functionally unable to compete with any ordinary farmer's privately grown legacy seed crops.
Our food supply chain is already so fragile, if we had some major anything happen, this type of thinking would seem to compound the issue.
It's nowhere near that serious. The only thing that is anywhere near that serious is US government (USDA) interference with the market.
I am confused by the hostility to Monsanto and your claim that they “cornered” the seed market.
There are plenty of other seeds available to grow soybeans. Why not buy those? Is it because those seeds don’t have the same useful work/money saving properties as the Monsanto seeds? Why, per the article, are 90% of the soybeans grown in the US using Monsanto seeds? Did Monsanto force anyone to buy/plant those seeds?
It seems to me that farmers voluntarily buy the Monsanto GMO seeds because of their unique work saving or pest/disease avoiding properties, and then complain about their having to pay Monsanto for their improvements.
Monsanto obviously has vastly improved soybean growing. No, you don’t need to thank them. Payment is sufficient.