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Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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Veritasium video about Monsanto.

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The farmers caught replanting seeds time and time again have been shown to intentionally skirt the rules.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Never thought I'd see Monsanto shilling on Lemmy.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Imagine how much cheaper food would be if Monsanto wasn't constantly hitting farmers over the head with a legal club

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    No, there is no question of Monsanto's greed here. This what capitalism does, it incentivizes greed over sustainability.

    Rather than requiring farmers to dump saved seeds and purchase new patented seeds each year, they could use a licensing system with a fair royalty on crop yields so that farmers do not have to take on the massive administrative burden of ensuring Monsanto seeds/crops don't mix with non Monsanto ones (because if they don't do this, they'll get sued into oblivion). Those that have a license can use saved seeds from the prior year.

    This is the corporation 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 at sufficiently high exposures.

    Monsanto also supplied the US government 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.

    Fuck Monsanto.

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