• jonne
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    8 months ago

    Yep, I’m not necessarily worried about health effects, it’s the whole thing about corporations suddenly owning the copyright on plants and forcing farmers to buy seeds instead of keeping seeds like they used to.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      1: non-gmo plants have patents, far more of them than gmo plants.

      2: farmers generally don’t keep their own seeds, and haven’t for a century.

    • hanekam@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Nobody’s forcing farmers to buy seeds. Seed sellers are asking farmers to pay if they want their seeds.

      Farmers could grow their own seeds and use those. It’s just that nobody does because buying highly productive cultivars is more profitable for them, even after they’ve shared that extra income with seed producers.