This is addressed in this policy proposal draft. I invite others to help build on it and refine it:
Reclaiming the Soil & Water Commons for Health, Sovereignty, and Sustainability
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Let’s make this happen. It is very important
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Imagine you spent millions to develop the technology leading to a better battery. You spent $$ to secure a patent to protect your technology. Should I be free to copy your technology without your permission? Seed companies spend millions of $$ developing and patenting improved seeds, when a farmer saves seeds from the harvest of a crop planted with these improved seeds and uses them to plant the following years crop that farmer is copying and using the seed companies technology without the permission of the seed company. And the farmer is not forced to do this, they can plant a heritage variety which enjoys no patent protection or purchase fresh seeds from the seed company.
What’s your opinion of farmers who plant what libre-licensed crops downwind of patented crops and end up with accidental hybrids? They have been sued over this before.
Not a gotcha, I want your opinion.
You can save and replant non-GMO seeds, but you sign an agreement when you buy GMO seeds that states you can not replant GMO seeds. It called “Stewardship Agreements” and can be found on the Bayer, a German drugs and crop chemicals company, website, who is the sole owner of Monsanto.
“https://www.bayer.com/en/agriculture/product-stewardship”
As my previous videos show, some farmers do save and replant their seeds.
One reason this may not be a good idea is they have no choice to plan for future various weather events, or current yields. If you use GMO seeds, There are many different seed companies who have various seed varieties to choose from. Plant one variety and have a bad year, you might lose everything, but plant several different varieties, some might do bad and some might do good. Farming is a big gamble.
I had heard the same thing but could not find any evidence it actually happened. Here is a link to dispel some myths, at least concerning Monsanto.
Good if true. I’ll check it out.
Edit: Looks like I’m a dummy.
Not at all, I believe the same, remember watching the movie movie “David vs Monsanto" mentioned in the article, and this article is Monsanto specific. Who know what the other seed companies have done?