Comment on Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoNever thought I’d see Monsanto shilling on Lemmy.
Comment on Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoNever thought I’d see Monsanto shilling on Lemmy.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sorry to interrupt your circle jerk.
The reality is farmers could use their own seeds. They don’t because Monsanto saves them money and updates the seeds year to year to optimize with changing conditions.
The “Oh your seeds fertilized mine and I can’t do anything about it” is bullshit.
Frankly fresh inexpensive and healthy meals are available at rock bottom prices in the state for over 85% of the population. Our local grocery stores would make kings and sultans enraged with jealousy. I have little issue with the American and Western food chain. Monsanto whether you like it or not contributes heavily to it’s success.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Imagine how much cheaper food would be if Monsanto wasn’t constantly hitting farmers over the head with a legal club
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Good luck finding any government willing to subsidize the cost of creating high yield seeds 🤷♂️
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
They already subsidized basically every other aspect of farming, I like our chances
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
No, there is no question of Monsanto’s greed here. This what capitalism does, it prioritizes greed over sustainability.
Rather than requiring farmers to dump saved seeds and purchase new patented seeds each year, they could use a licensing system which a fair royalty on crop yields so that farmers do not have to take om the massive administrative burden of ensuring Monsanto seeds/crops don’t mix with non Monsanto ones (because if they don’t they’ll get sued into oblivion).
This is the company that said Round Up was “safer than table salt” and “practically nontoxic” to mammals, birds and fish. The International Agency for Research on Cancer recognizes Round Up as a probable human carcinogen.
Monsanto also supplied the US with Agent Orange during the Vietnam war which, as we all know, caused countless cases of cancer among US war veterans and the people of Vietnam. (For a crusade against communism that the US ultimately lost by the way)
Fuck Monsanto.