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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2037887

Europe has one of the most diverse seed industries in the world. In Germany, the Netherlands and France alone, hundreds of small breeders are creating new varieties of cereals, vegetables and legumes.

Relying on decades of careful selection to improve desired traits like yield, disease resistance and flavour, they adapt seeds to local environments through methods like cross-breeding.

This legion of plant breeders help maintain Europe’s biodiversity and ensure that our food supplies stay plentiful. But their work is under growing threat from the patent industry.

Although it’s illegal to patent plants in the EU, those created through technological means are classified as a technical innovation and so can be patented.

This means that small-scale breeders can no longer freely plant these seeds or use them for research purposes without paying licensing fees.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Can I share seeds over I2P?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

I feel like this should work the opposite way: if you can't keep the genome pure, the crossbred plants aren't covered by the patent.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

They shouldn't play with our food. Food is not a toy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Brocollini is a licensed trademark

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yesterday we were pirating software Now we have to pirate seeds. Why does our society always ruin everything? This is why we can't have nice things.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I think this is more of a capitalism problem then a societal one. Capitalism creates extreme wealth disparity and since wealth buys political representation that creates a situation where our politicians serve the rich and not the people. Some people call this Late-stage-capitalism or terminal-stage-capitalism

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"No food grown that we do not own."

Is lemmy overrun by monsanto shills like reddit yet? Anybody gonna come in here preaching the gospel of "GMOs" and extremely privatized food?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You wouldn't download a seed

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

We need a digital seed library with the crispr ready DNA of various seeds for pirates (humans that need to eat) to archive.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I fucking abhor capitalism!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Af first I somehow read Arbor Capitalism and I was like aww fuck they're coming for the trees now.