A Boring Dystopia

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Exposing Why Farmers Can't Legally Replant Their Own Seeds (www.youtube.com)

submitted 21 hours ago by november@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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Veritasium video about Monsanto.

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 9 hours ago

You don't even need GMO to create a crop that is covered via patent.

https://mnhardy.umn.edu/apples/licensing

The University of Minnesota has a large apple breeding system to create new varieties that it sells licenses to. The university funds the development by selling licenses on the trees.