22-03-2022, 11:42 AM
(22-03-2022, 10:11 AM)Olive Wrote: I think the Monsanto thing is correct, however the market they want is the commercial seed buyers.  The home vege garden market is so small as to not even be on their radar, and it is a steadily shrinking market as fewer and fewer households have space for any kind of garden let alone veges.There is actually a film based on this - based on a true story of a farmer who was a seed saver so he would gather seeds from his crop to be used next season.  However because his neighbours used Monsanto seeds it meant the seeds he was saving  contained  genetic material that was actually Monsanto property so Monsanto sued him for years worth of crops.
https://youtu.be/PVK_Ol3VFa0