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• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s not how that works. You pay when you buy the seeds.

  Then there’s hybrid vigor. And I think someone figured out how to make seeds that only work for four generations… Can’t remember the details.

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  • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well there’s this case where Monsanto sued a farm for replanting seeds they had a patent on.

    And there’s several other cases similar to that where Monsanto has sued farmers. For instance in “David vs Monsanto”, when a farmer found out some canola plants were roundup-resistant and propogated them on his farm. Monsanto sued him for not having them removed, especially since Monsanto had a program where if they were informed, they’d removed them for farmers.

    So while it’s not exactly as deceived above, it’s not far off.

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    All hybrid seeds basically only work for one generation, because basic genetics.

    Terminator Seedsare about 25 years old now, and aren’t actually in use anywhere.

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    • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yup. That’s why I said that’s not how it works. Because you buy seeds with hybrid vigor.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They had a kill gene so some crazy inventor wouldn’t kill humanity, or that was the reason I heard back in the day…

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    • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The so called terminator gene was developed in and to attempt to limit the spread of GMO genes into the wild populations. It was a USDA-ARS program. Not their best work but it would have prevented today’s clusterfuck of contamination.

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      • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I haven’t heard of the contamination problem, do you have any info about that?

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